excindi
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);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...perire praeoptaverint ne loco pellerentur? socii saepe nostri excindi urbis suas seque cum coniugibus ac liberis cremari pertulerunt..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...urbe neque Galli capta temerare potuissent, furore principum excindi. arserat et ante Capitolium civili bello, sed fraude privata..."
