sciderat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →scindo, scindere, scidi, scissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tear, split, divide; rend, cut to pieces; tear in rage/grief/despair;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Praeterea inveni a verbo "scindo" simili ratione non "sciderat", sed "sciciderat" dictum esse. L. Accius in Sotadicorum libro..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...traditque nobis ungulae insertam suae, quam forte saeua sciderat auolsam manu. tunc uerba moriens addit: 'hoc' inquit 'magae..."