surpite
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);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- T
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...abstrudit foris. Re omni inspecta compressoris servolus Id surpit. illic Euclioni rem refert. Ab eo donatur auro, uxore..." - Q
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..."