decussit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decutio, decutere, decussi, decussus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shake/strike/knock/force down/off/aside (from upright); dislodge; overturn;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...solutos expulit Boreas Notos et saeua totas bruma decussit comas, deforme solis aspicis truncis nemus: sic nostra longum..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uere nidifico creat aut rigida cum iam bruma decussit decus nemorum et niuali cuncta constrinxit gelu, quodcumque gramen..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...posuit cum uinea frondes frigidus et siluis Aquilo decussit honorem, iam tum acer curas uenientem extendit in annum..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...addidit atris praedarique lupos iussit pontumque moueri, mellaque decussit foliis ignemque remouit et passim riuis currentia uina repressit..."