exuris
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. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- G
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..." - T
Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quae ut facere ita pati sit fas: sata exuri, dirui tecta, praedas hominum pecorumque agi misera magis quam..." - P
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..."