corripiens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →corripio, corripere, corripui, correptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize/grasp/snatch up, lay hold of; sweep off; carry away; appropriate/arrogate;; censure/reproach/rebuke/chastise; shorten/abridge; hasten (upon); catch (fire);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
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Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...unda procul uena, quam uix e puluere miles corripiens patulum galeae confudit in orbem porrexitque duci. squalebant puluere..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quacumque incubuit, solum nudat, siluas interim et tecta corripiens, inferior fere nubibus, utique numquam altior; at contra trabes..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...torsit, arbusta siluasque, conuoluit et aedificia tota corripiens in altum frangit ; hic mare per se languidum et iacens..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iram non capit ipsa suam Procne fletumque sororis corripiens 'non est lacrimis hoc' inquit 'agendum, sed ferro..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...super ingenitam avaritiam undique pecunias quasi in subsidium corripiens, tribunos et centuriones comiter excipere, nomina et virtutes nobilium..."