excidisset
Dictionary entries
- 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;; demolish/destroy, raze to ground (town/building); exterminate/destroy (people);
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uolucri dapem, Scythia gemente flebilis gemitus mihi non excidisset; si uagae Symplegades utraque premerent rupe, redeuntis minas ferrem..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cantante rapiuntur. Ceterum inter tumultum cum forte paropsis excidisset et puer iacentem sustulisset, animadvertit Trimalchio colaphisque obiurgari puerum..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dependens immineret, ut, si calore dicendi vitare id excidisset, offensatione illa commoneretur. Ambulantem loqui ita demum oportet..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...circumiri a tam paucis cohortibus nequisset castraque perrupta excidisset: Vocula nec adventum hostium exploravit, eoque simul egressus victusque..."