dirues
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diruo, diruere, dirui, dirutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish/wreck/destroy, pull down, raze to ground; overthrow; bankrupt (L+S);; have one's pay stopped/docked (of soldier); scatter, drive asunder (L+S);
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...cessas ire ac facere? SY. Quid eoo? DE. Dirue. tu illas abi ac transduce. --- GE. Di tibi, Demea..."Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...narisque pilosas adnotet et grandes miretur Laelius alas; dirue Maurorum attegias, castella Brigantum, ut locupletem aquilam tibi sexagesimus..."
