excidi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →excindo, excindere, excidi, excissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
demolish/destroy, raze to ground (town/building); exterminate/destroy (people);
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st - Entry →excido, excidere, excidi, excisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
cut out/off/down; raze, destroy;; perish; disappear; escape, fall out; be deprived of; lose control of senses;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin. - Entry →excidium, excidi(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
military destruction (of towns/armies); ruin/demolition; subversion/overthrow;
gen. sg.
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...reginae domi suae fuerunt ambae, earum patriam ego excidi manu. his te dono. PHRON. Paenitetne te quot ancillas..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...tandem uitio aduocatus defuit? Non est quod dicas excidi non posse: sanabilibus aegrotamus malis ipsaque nos in rectum..." - L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...comprimit, ad nutum meum stringentur; quas nationes funditus excidi, quas transportari, quibus libertatem dari, quibus eripi, quos reges..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...aliquid uelut usu ipso deteretur, sit modo unde excidi possit et quod exculpi; erit autem..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus. denique, quatenus excidi penitus vitium irae, cetera item nequeunt stultis haerentia..."
