diripuisses
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. pluperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...asto.— CHAR. Nullus sum, occidi. II.iv CHAR. Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas: nugas maximas fuisse credo, praeut quo pacto..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...signisque—egregie autem exornata insula erat—, cum hostiliter diripuissent, ad ipsam urbem transmiserunt. eam diuisis inter se partibus..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...terram facta. Cum urbem ui cepissent captamque diripuissent, Carthaginem inde petunt, atque omnem agrum circa depopulati postremo tecta..."