corrueres
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. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...corpora desunt, ex infinito quae possint forte coorta corruere hanc rerum violento turbine summam aut aliam quamvis cladem..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...trepidationemque facerent, elephanti quoque duo in ipsa porta corruerant, coactique erant milites per fossam uallumque ruere in castra..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...genu se adiuvissent, ipsis adminiculis prolapsis iterum corruerent; nec stirpes circa radicesue ad quas pede aut manu quisquam..."