deripier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deripio, deripere, deripui, dereptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize/grab/snatch/take away; tear/pull off/down; remove (violently);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...cives, erum meum hic in pacato oppido luci deripier in via, qui liber ad vos venerit. mittite istunc..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...quia quae patimur uicere modum. Sed cur sacratas deripis capiti infulas? miseris colendos maxime superos putem. [Ca.] Vicere..."
