excindier
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
- P
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..." - P
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..."
