corripitur
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);
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...correpta producitur, ut "Italiam fato profugus", seu longa corripitur, ut "unius ob noxam et furias", extra carmen..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fraternos currere Luna admiratur equos, ambustaque nubila fumant. corripitur flammis, ut quaeque altissima, tellus fissaque agit rimas..." - P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...casum sapienter tolerans a centurione ad caedem misso corripitur; suadentique venas abrumpere animum quidem morti destinatum..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Cassio milite, qui ob insigne corporis robur adstabat, corripitur vinciturque. Mox eorundem indicio Subrius Flavus tribunus pervertitur, primo..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aetate extrema (adeo incertae sunt potentium res) accusatione corripitur, deferente Iunio Lupo senatore. is crimina maiestatis et cupidinem..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...agebat, dum superfuit pater Lepidus: post a delatoribus corripitur ob servum adulterum, nec dubitabatur de flagitio: ergo omissa..."