discerpent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →discerpo, discerpere, discerpsi, discerptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
pluck or tear in pieces; rend, mutilate, mangle;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ullo vera timore tegam, nec si me infestis discerpent sidera dictis, condita quin veri pectoris evoluam..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Macedonibus nolit: et eum non isdem manibus discerpitis, quibus Macedonas uicistis? uincere uos prohibuisset, si potuisset, qui triumphantis..."