exurere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →exuro, exurere, exussi, exustus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
burn (up/out/completely); destroy/devastate by fire; dry up, parch; scald;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ardentibus. MAT. Perii, mi pater, minatur mihi oculos exurere. [MEN. Ei mihi, insanire me aiunt, ultro cum ipsi..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...rogum gelidosque effusa per artus incubuisse uiro, laceros exurere crines membraque dispersi pelago conponere Magni, uolneribus cunctis largos..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Teucri, defendere navis neve armate manus; maria ante exurere Turno quam sacras dabitur pinus. vos ite solutae..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...dulcis animas aut aegra trahebant corpora; tum sterilis exurere Sirius agros, arebant herbae et victum seges aegra negabat..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Italia Teucrorum avertere regem? Quippe vetor fatis. Pallasne exurere classem Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, unius..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...quam quibus gloria carissima est. Brigantes femina duce exurere coloniam, expugnare castra, ac nisi felicitas in socordiam vertisset..."