surpit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →surpo, surpere, surpui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Early
take away secretly; steal, filch; (archaic form of surripere);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...abstrudit foris. Re omni inspecta compressoris servolus Id surpit. illic Euclioni rem refert. Ab eo donatur auro, uxore..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...unum', —'quid tam magnum?' addens—, 'unum me surpite morti! dis etenim facile est' orabat, sanus utrisque auribus atque..."