diripere
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;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Persius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...aboleret. Editum librum continuo mirari homines et diripere coeperunt. Decessit autem vitio stomachi anno aetatis..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...epilogum productis talos iecit in medium, quos illi diripere coeperunt; namque haec ipsa discriminis sui ignorantia potuit esse..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...regum amicos ad mortem deposcere, hi bona locupletum diripere, stipendii augendi causa regis domum obsidere, regno expellere alios..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...familias ac praetextatorum, deprecaturque ne hostili adventu Cordubam diriperent: nam se contra Cassium consentire cum omnibus; contra Caesarem..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...milia in praesidio erant, urbem in tumultu diriperent, ab subornato ab se per fallaciam in tabellarii speciem litteras..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caesisque custodibus partim ea, quae in plaustris erant, diripere, partim sub oneribus iumenta abstrahere. Vnde postquam clamor primum..."Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...neque signis conlatis dimicare, sed refugientem incendere ac diripere urbes et uincentium praemia uictum corrumpere. At non antiquos..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...acies egressa portis foret, impedimenta eorum ac sarcinas diriperent, clauderent deinde portas murosque occuparent, ut potentes rerum suarum..."