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
- A
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...oculos pugnare incipit; insilibat, obturbabat et unguibus manum laniabat et prospectum alis arcebat atque, ubi satis saevierat, revolabat..." - G
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..." - P
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..."