corripui
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Hecyra
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...citius eduxi foras. nam modo intro me ut corripui timidus, alio suspicans morbo me visurum adfectam ac sensi..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...converti, quae mihi omnium malorum causa fuerat: Ter corripui terribilem manu bipennem, ter languidior coliculi repente thyrso ferrum..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...tanto plenius et effusius, quanto ipsum acrius severiusque corripui, destricte minatus numquam me postea rogaturum. Hoc illi, quem..."