corruant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →corruo, corruere, corrui, corrutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall/break down, fall to ground/from height, collapse; be ruined, come to grief;; topple (house/wall), totter; subside (ground); rush/sweep together; overthrow;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...blandius. Tempestas minatur antequam surgat, crepant aedificia antequam corruant, praenuntiat fumus incendium: subita est ex homine pernicies..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...homines quam primum, si stare non possunt, corruant sed ita, ut non modo civitas, sed ne vicini quidem..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...magna industria haberi decet, ne incuria deformentur, aut corruant infirmata. Nemo enim alteri imperium volens concedit: et, quamvis..."