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