trucidabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →trucido, trucidare, trucidavi, trucidatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
slaughter, butcher, massacre;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...configebantur et, cum comminus uenerant, gladiis a uelitibus trucidabantur. Hic miles tripedalem parmam habet et in dextera hastas..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...atque ibi ab ingressis aquam hostium equitibus passim trucidabantur. Sex milia ferme primi agminis per aduersos hostes eruptione..."