corruisse
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;
perf. act. infin.
Examples
- T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legationis, cuius magniloquentiam uix curia paulo ante ceperat, corruisse. alii responsum esse tradunt, populum Romanum et principio eius..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...deinde quibus caussis amplissuma regna et imperia corruissent: eadem semper bona, atque mala reperiebam omnesque victores divitas contemsisse..."
