corruperant
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. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aliqua aut loci senium aut frigus aut aestus corrupere naturam; et sulphuratio contraxit umorem, qui modo diuturnus..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...incubuisset. 3. Vbi animum simul et corpus uoluptates corrupere, nihil tolerabile uidetur, non quia dura sed quia mollis..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem I
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...vera consilia valuerunt: ubicumque gratia, timor, voluptas, ea corrupere, post paullo imminutae opes, deinde ademtum imperium, postremo servitus..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...inter se instituerant. Nomen eorum paulatim Libyes corrupere, barbara lingua Mauros pro Medis appellantes. Sed res Persarum brevi..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...miseros (?) obstringi. Ad Iovis mandem (?) iram. Publicum studiis corruperant me veri . . . unum p.. At cum mandatum credat..."