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
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..."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..."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..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...inter se instituerant. Nomen eorum paulatim Libyes corrupere, barbara lingua Mauros pro Medis appellantes. Sed res Persarum brevi..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...miseros (?) obstringi. Ad Iovis mandem (?) iram. Publicum studiis corruperant me veri . . . unum p.. At cum mandatum credat..."