laniabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lanio, laniare, laniavi, laniatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
tear, mangle, mutilate, pull to pieces;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...oculos pugnare incipit; insilibat, obturbabat et unguibus manum laniabat et prospectum alis arcebat atque, ubi satis saevierat, revolabat..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...putet," et qui dicebant "non putet," omnes tamen laniabat, ita utsaturaretur sanguine. Cum multis hoc fecisset, postea simium..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...manus in easdem porrigit undas; huius, ut arreptum laniabat vertice crinem, duratos subito digitos in crine videres..."