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
- G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ullo vera timore tegam, nec si me infestis discerpent sidera dictis, condita quin veri pectoris evoluam..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Macedonibus nolit: et eum non isdem manibus discerpitis, quibus Macedonas uicistis? uincere uos prohibuisset, si potuisset, qui triumphantis..."