contrudo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

con-trūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a.

I To thrust or crowd together (mostly anteclass.): nubes (vis venti), Lucr. 6, 510; cf. id. 6, 211 and 734: penitusque casa contrusa jacebant Corpora, crowded together , id. 6, 1254.—

II To press, thrust, push , or crowd in : uvam in dolia, Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2: stantis equi corpus ... videtur vis in adversum flumen contrudere, aliquos in balneas, Cic. Cael. 26, 63; Varr. L. L. 8, § 31 Müll. —Rarely of a single person: Florentius ... contrusus est in insulam, Amm. 22, 3, 6.

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