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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."