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
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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...intra fiduciam posui fraudavique animum dissidentem, coepi somnum obruto tunicula capite mentiri. Sed repente quasi destruente fortuna constantiam..."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..."