cruciarier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →crucio, cruciare, cruciavi, cruciatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
torment, torture; cause grief/anguish; crucify; suffer torture/agony; grieve;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...illaec narrat tibi? Pa. Lamentari ait illam, miseram cruciari et lacrimantem se adflictare, quia tis egeat, quia..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sparsis infamia tristis; illum videbis alienae uxoris amore cruciari, illum suae; non deerit quem repulsa distorqueat; erunt quos..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...feretur pro ludibrio praemium:non ueto dimitti, uerum cruciari fame,ne uentrem continere non possint suum.Illi autem..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...facto, fac'. Et qui ipsi sibi bellum indixissent, cruciari dies, noctes torqueri vellent, nec vero sese ipsi accusarent..."