laceraverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacero, lacerare, laceravi, laceratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
mangle; slander, torment, harass; waste; destroy; cut;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...scindendum aprum non ille Carpus accessit, qui altilia laceraverat, sed barbatus ingens, fasciis cruralibus alligatus et alicula subornatus..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...inpudicus, adulter, ganeo, manu, ventre, pene bona patria laceraverat quique alienum aes grande conflaverat, quo flagitium aut facinus..."