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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cantante rapiuntur. Ceterum inter tumultum cum forte paropsis excidisset et puer iacentem sustulisset, animadvertit Trimalchio colaphisque obiurgari puerum..."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..."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..."