excidimus
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);
pl. 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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1stpl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...mactate saxis, uincite aerumnas meas. ingrate cessas orbis? excidimus tibi? adhuc malis ferisque suppositus fores, ni me tulisses..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uadis oblitus mei et tot meorum facinorum? excidimus tibi? numquam excidemus. hoc age, omnis aduoca uires et artes..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...vites coercemus manu? cur eas fodimus? Rubos arvis excidimus: terra et hos generat. Mansuefacimus animalia: indomita nascuntur. Verum..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Batavique, exigua Galliarum portio, vana illa castrorum spatia excidimus vel saepta ferro fameque premimus. denique ausos aut libertas..."
