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
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ardentibus. MAT. Perii, mi pater, minatur mihi oculos exurere. [MEN. Ei mihi, insanire me aiunt, ultro cum ipsi..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."