diriperes
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. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
Persius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...aboleret. Editum librum continuo mirari homines et diripere coeperunt. Decessit autem vitio stomachi anno aetatis..." - M
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...milia in praesidio erant, urbem in tumultu diriperent, ab subornato ab se per fallaciam in tabellarii speciem litteras..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caesisque custodibus partim ea, quae in plaustris erant, diripere, partim sub oneribus iumenta abstrahere. Vnde postquam clamor primum..." - T
Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...neque signis conlatis dimicare, sed refugientem incendere ac diripere urbes et uincentium praemia uictum corrumpere. At non antiquos..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...acies egressa portis foret, impedimenta eorum ac sarcinas diriperent, clauderent deinde portas murosque occuparent, ut potentes rerum suarum..."