destruentes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →destruo, destruere, destruxi, destructus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish, pull/tear down; destroy, ruin; demolish/refute (arguments/evidence);
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aliquando quaeretur et vario exitii genere tollentur: alias destruent bella, alias desidia paxque ad inertiam versa consumet..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...somnum obruto tunicula capite mentiri. Sed repente quasi destruente fortuna constantiam meam eiusmodi vox supra constratum puppis congemuit..."