direptos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diripio, diripere, diripui, direptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pull/tear apart/to pieces/away; tear asunder/to shreds; pull out/off; divert;; grab; scramble for; snatch a share of; strive; run after, compete for (favor);; plunder, pillage, spoil, lay waste; seize and divide; steal/rob; distress;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
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Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...haec in munera factos. hae glaebas, illae direptos arbore ramos, pars torquent silices; neu desint tela furori, forte..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cultoribus bello absumptis et inopia seruitiorum et pecore direpto uillisque dirutis aut incensis; magna tamen pars auctoritate consulum..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...versa in deterius Senecae deferrent. repertique accusatores direptos socios, cum Suillius provinciam Asiam regeret, ac publicae pecuniae peculatum..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...esse quam incolerent, et longe Germaniam virisque legionum; direptos vastatosque classe etiam quos cohortes alaeque protegerent. et aversi..."