corruerunt
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...earum partium quae subiectis adminiculis destitutae labant, donec corruerunt nullo occurrente quod onus exciperet; tunc chasmata, tunc hiatus..."Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...plurifariam ei ponerentur, fractis repente cruribus pariter corruerunt, ac laurea, quam religiosissime circumdederat, in profluentem excidit; mox Viennae..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...retro in aciem suorum auerterunt; quattuor grauati uolneribus corruerunt. tum primum commota hostium acies, simul omnibus equitibus..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romani super alium alius, volneratis tribus Albanis, exspirantes corruerunt. Ad quorum casum cum conclamasset gaudio Albanus exercitus, Romanas..."