elidunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →elido, elidere, elisi, elisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
strike or dash out; expel; shatter; crush out; strangle; destroy;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...premit strages peraguntque cadauera partem 205caedis: uiua graues elidunt corpora trunci. intrepidus tanti sedit securus ab alto spectator..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sententias et res bonas (ita enim gloriari solent) elidunt: nam et barbari et serui..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...duris vincla trahit galeae, quae presso subdita mento elidunt fauces et respiramen iterque eripiunt animae. victum spoliare parabat..."