corruat
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quis aduerso demissum faucibus ensemexpulerit moriens anima, quis corruat ictus,quis steterit dum membra cadunt, qui pectore telatransmittant..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...caeli circuit et, ne quid labefactum viribus ignis corruat, explorat. quae postquam firma suique roboris esse videt, terras..."