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
- G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...pravitatem, secunda in casum, fortunam in temeritatem declinando corrumpebant. SVETONIVS Ut Lenaeus Sallustium, quod Pompeium oris probi, animo..." - P
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..."