corruissent
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legationis, cuius magniloquentiam uix curia paulo ante ceperat, corruisse. alii responsum esse tradunt, populum Romanum et principio eius..."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..."