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
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..."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..."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..."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..."
