diripitur
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...septingenta; sed ea omnia bello priore Alexandrino, dum diripitur ea civitas, non sponte neque opera consulta..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...sibi obtingere magno aestimauit: "Quando", inquit, "istos effugiam?" Diripitur ille toto foro patronus et magno concursu omnia ultra..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...exequiae cadunt. tum propria flammis corpora alienis cremant; diripitur ignis: nullus est miseris pudor. non ossa tumuli lecta..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...amici ora. fremunt undae, longusque a fontibus amnis diripitur; modo lene uirens et gurgite puro perspicuus, nunc sordet..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...complexu parentium. cottidie capitur urbs nostra, cottidie diripitur; dies noctesque omnia passim mulierum puerorumque qui rapiuntur atque asportantur..."