obruto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obruo, obruere, obrui, obrutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
cover up, hide, bury; overwhelm, ruin; crush;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...caput missi, cum iam adploraueris mersosque atque obrutos tanta mole credideris, longe ab eo, in quem cediderunt, loco..." - L
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...defixus sum, complures multorum iam annorum ruina obrutos effoderit et in lucem reduxerit, non vereor ne me unum..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...intra fiduciam posui fraudavique animum dissidentem, coepi somnum obruto tunicula capite mentiri. Sed repente quasi destruente fortuna constantiam..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Percennium interfici iubet. tradunt plerique intra tabernaculum ducis obrutos, alii corpora extra vallum abiecta ostentui. Tum ut quisque..."