diripuissent
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;
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...asto.— CHAR. Nullus sum, occidi. II.iv CHAR. Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas: nugas maximas fuisse credo, praeut quo pacto..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...signisque—egregie autem exornata insula erat—, cum hostiliter diripuissent, ad ipsam urbem transmiserunt. eam diuisis inter se partibus..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...terram facta. Cum urbem ui cepissent captamque diripuissent, Carthaginem inde petunt, atque omnem agrum circa depopulati postremo tecta..."