exurier
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...derectosque haberet. Nec mirum: animum advertebat enim villas exuri, agros vastari, pecus diripi, trucidari, oppida castellaque dirui deserique..."Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quae ut facere ita pati sit fas: sata exuri, dirui tecta, praedas hominum pecorumque agi misera magis quam..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...suscipiendi iudicii, convictumque Veientonem Italia depulit et libros exuri iussit, conquisitos lectitatosque, donec cum periculo parabantur: mox licentia..."