laniatus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lanio, laniare, laniavi, laniatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
tear, mangle, mutilate, pull to pieces;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ille medias inter exurgens faces, semiustus ac laniatus, intrepidum tuens: 'nunc es parens Herculea: sic stare ad rogum..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...solitus est, si recludantur tyrannorum mentes, posse aspici laniatus et ictus, quando ut corpora verberibus, ita saevitia, libidine..."