corrumpebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →corrumpo, corrumpere, corrupi, corruptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spoil/rot; taint/contaminate; damage/ruin, undo; destroy/deface; digest; infect;; pervert, corrupt, deprave; bribe, suborn; seduce, tempt, beguile; falsify;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...pravitatem, secunda in casum, fortunam in temeritatem declinando corrumpebant. SVETONIVS Ut Lenaeus Sallustium, quod Pompeium oris probi, animo..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...libertorum concessisset, quamquam id omni modo servilia ingenia corrumpebant, abditis pecuniis per occultos aut ambitiosos sinus, et quidam..."