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|lshtext=<b>rŭo</b>: ŭi, ŭtum (ruiturus, a, um, Ov. M. 4, 459; Luc. 7, 404; Mart. 1, 88, 4; Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 8;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. [[part]]. ruentum, Verg. A. 11, 886), 3, v. n. and a., to [[fall]] [[with]] [[violence]], [[rush]] [[down]]; to [[fall]] [[down]], [[tumble]] [[down]], go to [[ruin]] (cf.: [[labor]], [[procumbo]], [[cado]]).<br /><b>I</b> Neutr. ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. Rarely of persons: caedebant [[pariter]] pariterque ruebant Victores victique, Verg. A. 10, 756; so Val. Fl. 7, 642.—Of things: ruere [[illa]] non possunt, ut haec non [[eodem]] labefacta motu concidant, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19: spectacula runnt, [[fell]] [[down]], tumbled [[down]], Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 47; cf.: parietes ruunt, id. Most. 1, 2, 36: lateres veteres, id. Truc. 2, 2, 50; so, [[aedes]], id. Am. 5, 1, 43; id. Most. 1, 2, 69: omnia tecta ([[supra]] aliquem), Lucr. 4, 403; Liv. 4, 21, 5; Quint. 8, 3, 68 al.: altae turres, Lucr. 5, 307: [[moles]] et [[machina]] mundi, id. 5, 96: [[murus]], Liv. 21, 11: templa deum, Hor. S. 2, 2, 104; aulaea, id. ib. 2, 8, 71: [[acervus]], id. Ep. 2, 1, 47: [[murus]] latius [[quam]] caederetur, Liv. 21, 11: tecta in agris, id. 4, 21: silices a montibus altis, Lucr. 5, 314: [[alto]] a culmine Troja, Verg. A. 2, 290.—Poet.: caeli templa, Lucr. 1, 1105: ruit [[arduus]] [[aether]], it rains, or the [[rain]] descends in torrents, Verg. G. 1, 324; cf. id. A. 8, 525: [[caelum]] imbribus immodicis, Mart. 3, 100, 3; cf.: [[caelum]] in se, Liv. 40, 58: ruit imbriferum ver, i.e. is [[ending]], hastening to its [[close]], Verg. G. 1, 313; cf.: [[turbidus]] [[imber]] aquā, id. A. 5, 695: [[tempestas]], Tac. A. 1, 30.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prov.: [[caelum]] ruit, the [[sky]] is falling; of [[any]] [[thing]] [[very]] [[improbable]]: Cl. Quid tum, [[quaeso]], si hoc [[pater]] resciverit? Sy. Quid si [[nunc]] [[caelum]] ruat? Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., of [[rapid]], [[hasty]] movements, to [[hasten]], [[hurry]], [[run]], [[rush]] (cf.: [[volo]], [[curro]]): id ne ferae [[quidem]] faciunt, ut ita ruant [[atque]] turbentur, Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34; cf. id. Att. 7, 7, 7: (Pompeium) ruere nuntiant et jam jamque adesse, id. ib. 7, 20, 1: huc [[omnis]] [[turba]] ruebat, Verg. A. 6, 305: Aeneadae in [[ferrum]] ruebant, id. ib. 8, 648: per proelia, id. ib. 12, 526: [[quidam]] inermes [[ultro]] ruere ac se morti offerre, Tac. Agr. 37: contis gladiisque ruerent, id. A. 6, 35: in aquam caeci ruebant, Liv. 1, 27 fin.: in [[castra]] fugientes, id. 24, 16, 2: in vulnera ac [[tela]], id. 26, 44: promiscue in [[concubitus]], id. 3, 47: [[eques]] pedesque [[certatim]] portis ruere, id. 27, 41: ad urbem [[infesto]] agmine, id. 3, 3: ad portas, Tac. A. 1, 66: ad [[convivium]], id. H. 2, 68 fin.: per vias, id. ib. 5, 22: destinatā morte in [[proelium]], Flor. 2, 18, 12: ruebant laxatis habenis aurigae, Curt. 4, 15, 3: de montibus amnes, Verg. A. 4, 164: flumina per campos, Ov. M. 1, 285: in Galliam [[Rhenus]], Tac. H. 5, 19.—Poet., of [[time]]: vertitur [[interea]] [[caelum]] et ruit Oceano Nox, i.e. hastens up, sets in, Verg. A. 2, 250: revoluta ruebat [[dies]], [[was]] advancing, hastening on, id. ib. 10, 256; cf. of the setting of the [[sun]], Val. Fl. 1, 274; App. M. 3, p. 136, 19.— Of [[sound]], to [[break]] [[forth]]: [[antrum]], [[unde]] ruunt [[totidem]] voces, responsa Sibyllae, Verg. A. 6, 44.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Acc. to A. 1.) To [[fall]], [[fail]], [[sink]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[ratio]] ruat [[omnis]], Lucr. 4, 507: quae cum accidunt [[nemo]] est [[quin]] intellegat, ruere illam rem publicam, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 12: Vitellium ne prosperis [[quidem]] parem, [[adeo]] ruentibus debilitatum, by his falling fortunes, Tac. H. 3, 64: tam florentes Atheniensium [[opes]] ruisse, Just. 5, 1, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Acc. to A. 2.) To [[rush]], [[dash]], [[hurry]], [[hasten]], [[run]], etc. (freq. and [[class]].): [[tamquam]] ad interitum ruerem voluntarium, Cic. Marcell. 5, 14: emptorem pati ruere et per errorem in maximam fraudem incurrere, to [[act]] [[hastily]], [[commit]] an [[oversight]], id. Off. 3, 13, 55; cf. Liv. 3, 11: cum cotidie rueret, Cic. Sest. 64, 133; id. Att. 2, 14, 1; Quint. 2, 20, 2: compescere ruentes, Tac. H. 1, 56; 2, 63 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 34: ad seditiones et discordias et bella civilia, id. ib. 1, 46: crudelitatis [[odio]] in crudelitatem ruitis, Liv. 3, 53: in [[servitium]], Tac. A. 1, 7: in [[exitium]], id. H. 1, 84: in sua fata, Ov. M. 6, 51: omnia fatis In pejus, Verg. G. 1, 200: quo scelesti ruitis? Hor. Epod. 7, 1: quo ruis, Verg. A. 10, 811; Ov. M. 9, 428: multos [[video]], quā vel impudentiā vel [[fames]] duxit, ruentes, Quint. 2, 20, 2.—Poet., [[with]] inf.: quo ruis [[imprudens]], [[vage]], dicere fata? Prop. 4 (5), 1, 71: scire ruunt, Luc. 7, 751; Stat. Th. 7, 177; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 387.—Impers. [[pass]].: ut [[ferme]] fugiendo in media fata ruitur, Liv. 8, 24.—<br /><b>II</b> Act., to [[cast]] [[down]] [[with]] [[violence]], to [[dash]] [[down]], [[tumble]] [[down]], [[hurl]] to the [[ground]], [[prostrate]] ([[except]] the jurid. [[phrase]] [[ruta]] [[caesa]], perh. [[only]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]], for in the [[passage]], Cic. Att. 2, 15, 2, seu ruet seu eriget rem publicam, ruet [[might]] be neutr.)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: imbres fluctusque ... frangere [[malum]], Ruere antennas, etc., Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 18: naves (vis venti), Lucr. 1, 272: res impetibus crebris (venti), id. 1, 293: ceteros ruerem, agerem, raperem, funderem et prosternerem, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21: immanem molem volvuntque ruuntque, Verg. A. 9, 516: cumulos ruit [[pinguis]] harenae, breaks [[down]], levels, id. G. 1, 105: [[sese]] [[superne]] in praedam, to [[cast]] one's [[self]] [[upon]], App. Flor. 1, p. 341, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Poet., transf., to [[cast]] up from the [[bottom]], to [[turn]] up, [[throw]] up, [[rake]] up: cum [[mare]] permotum ventis, ruit [[intus]] harenam, casts up (syn. eruit), Lucr. 6, 726; cf.: totum ([[mare]]) a sedibus imis (venti), Verg. A. 1, 85: spumas salis aere, id. ib. 1, 35: cinerem et confusa [[Ossa]] focis, id. ib. 11, 211: atram nubem ad [[caelum]] ([[ignis]]), id. G. 2, 308: [[unde]] Divitias aerisque ruam, dic, [[augur]], acervos, Hor. S. 2, 5, 22.—Hence, rŭtus, a, um, P. a., [[found]] [[only]] in the [[phrase]] rūta et [[caesa]] or rūta [[caesa]] (acc. to [[Varro]], the u [[was]] [[pronounced]] [[long]], [[although]] it is [[short]] in the compounds [[erutus]], [[obrutus]], etc.: in venditionis lege fundi [[ruta]] [[caesa]] ita dicimus, ut U producamus, Varr. L. L. 9, § 104).—In jurid. lang., [[every]] [[thing]] dug up ([[ruta]]) and [[cut]] [[down]] ([[caesa]]) on an [[estate]] [[without]] [[being]] [[wrought]], and [[which]] is [[reserved]] by the [[owner]] at a [[sale]]; the [[timber]] and minerals: si [[ruta]] et [[caesa]] excipiantur in venditione, ea placuit esse [[ruta]], quae eruta sunt, ut [[harena]], [[creta]] et similia; [[caesa]] ea esse, ut arbores caesas, et carbones et his similia, etc., Dig. 19, 1, 17: in rutis caesis ea sunt, quae terrā non tenentur, quaeque opere structili tectoriove non continentur, ib. 50, 16, 241: [[ruta]] [[caesa]] dicuntur, quae [[venditor]] possessionis sui [[usus]] gratiā concidit ruendoque contraxit, Fest. p. 262 Müll.: ut venditores, cum [[aedes]] fundumve vendiderint rutis caesis receptis, concedant [[tamen]] aliquid emptori, [[quod]] ornandi causā [[apte]] et [[loco]] positum esse videatur, Cic. Top. 26, 100: dicet te ne in rutis [[quidem]] et caesis [[solium]] tibl fraternum recepisse, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 226.
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|gf=<b>rŭō</b>,⁸ rŭī, rŭtum (p. fut. rŭĭtūrus ), ĕre,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>I</b> intr. <b>A</b>, se précipiter, se ruer, s’élancer,<br /><b>1</b> <b> a)</b> [en parl. des pers. et des anim.] Cic. Fin. 1, 34 ; Att. 7, 7, 7 ; 7, 20, 1 ; Liv. 1, 27, 11 ; Tac. Agr. 37, etc.; <b> b)</b> [cours d’eau] Virg. En. 4, 164 ; Tac. H. 5, 19 ; Ov. M. 1, 285 ; <b> c)</b> [paroles de la Sibylle] Virg. En. 6, 44 ; <b> d)</b> [la nuit, le jour] Virg. En. 2, 250 ; 10, 256<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] <b> a)</b> ad interitum voluntarium Cic. Marc. 14, courir volontairement à la mort ; crudelitatis [[odio]] in crudelitatem Liv. 3, 53, 7, par haine de la cruauté se précipiter dans la cruauté ; [[quo]] ruis ? Virg. En. 10, 811, où cours-tu ? &#124;&#124; [poét. avec inf.] se précipiter pour : Prop. 4, 1, 71 ; Luc. 7, 751 ; Stat. Th. 7, 177 &#124;&#124; [pass. impers.] in fata ruitur Liv. 8, 24, 4, on court à son destin ; <b> b)</b> courir à l’aveuglette, se précipiter trop, se hâter inconsidérément, agir avec précipitation : Cic. Off. 3, 55 ; Sest. 133 ; Att. 2, 14, 1 ; Liv. 3, 11, 10 ; Tac. H. 1, 56 ;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b>&nbsp;<br /><b>1</b> tomber, s’écrouler, crouler, se renverser : <b> a)</b> [en parl. de personnes] : Virg. En. 10, 756 ; <b> b)</b> [surtout de bâtiment] : Pl. Most. 147, etc.; Lucr. 5, 307, etc.; Liv. 4, 21, 5 ; 21, 11 ; ruit [[alto]] a culmine [[Troja]] Virg. En. 2, 290, Troie s’écroule depuis son faîte ; ruit [[arduus]] æther Virg. G. 1, 324, les hauteurs du ciel s’écroulent en torrents, le ciel se fond en eau<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] tomber, s’écrouler, s’effondrer : Cic. Pomp. 19 ; Verr. 2, 5, 12 ; Lucr. 4, 507 ; Tac. H. 3, 64.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>II</b> tr.,<br /><b>1</b> précipiter : <b> a)</b> bousculer, pousser violemment : atram nubem ad cælum Virg. G. 2, 308, pousser vers le ciel un noir tourbillon ; cinerem Virg. En. 11, 211, pousser des cendres en tous sens, les remuer ; ceteros Ter. Ad. 319, bousculer les autres ; [[intus]] harenam Lucr. 6, 726, précipiter le sable vers l’intérieur ; <b> b)</b> [avec ex ou ab ] lancer hors de, faire sortir violemment ou brusquement de : [[unde]] divitias ruam [[dic]] Hor. S. 2, 5, 22, indique-moi d’où je puis faire jaillir des richesses ; [[mare]] a sedibus imis Virg. En. 1, 85, soulever la mer du fond de ses abîmes ; <b> c)</b> v. [[ruta]] cæsa ; <b> d)</b> se ruere, se précipiter : Gell. 7, 2, 8<br /><b>2</b> faire tomber, faire crouler, renverser : Pl. Trin. 837 ; Virg. G. 1, 105 ; naves Lucr. 1, 272, faire couler des navires &#124;&#124; se ruere Apul. Flor. 2, se laisser tomber, se jeter en bas.
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{{Georges
|georg=ruo, ruī, rutum, [[aber]] Partic. [[Fut]]. ruitūrus, ere (vgl. griech. εχραον, überfiel, bedrängte u. [[congruo]], in-[[gruo]]), [[rennen]], [[stürzen]], I) intr.: A) im allg., [[rennen]], [[stürzen]], [[stürmen]] = [[eilen]], 1) eig.: a) v. Pers.: id ne ferae [[quidem]] faciunt, ut [[ita]] ruant [[itaque]] turbent, ut etc., Cic.: (Pompeium) ruere nuntiant et [[iam]] iamque [[adesse]], Cic.: [[quidam]] inermes [[ultro]] ruere ac se morti offerre, Tac.: [[legio]] sustinuit ruentes (die Einherstürmenden), Tac. – [[huc]] [[omnis]] [[turba]] ruebat, Verg.: in aquam caeci ruebant, Liv.: in [[castra]] fugientes, Liv.: in [[ferrum]], Verg.: in vulnera ac [[tela]], Liv.: in [[proelium]], [[Flor]].: ad urbem [[infesto]] agmine, Liv.: ad portas, Tac.: ad [[convivium]], Tac. – per vias, Tac.: per proelia, Verg. – [[eques]] pedesque [[certatim]] ruere portis, Liv. – b) v. Flüssen, r. de montibus, Verg.: per campos, Ov.: in Galliam (v. Rhein), Tac. – c) v. [[Tönen]], [[antrum]], [[unde]] ruunt [[totidem]] voces, responsa Sibyllae, [[hervorbrechen]], -[[tönen]], Verg. Aen. 6, 44. – d) v. [[Nacht]] u. [[Tag]], vertitur [[interea]] [[caelum]] et ruit Oceano [[nox]], d.i. eilt [[herauf]], Verg.: u. so revoluta ruebat [[dies]], Verg. – [[dagegen]] [[nox]] ruit enteilt (geht [[unter]]), Verg.: [[ebenso]] [[sol]] ruit [[caelo]], Apul., u. bl. [[sol]] ruit, Val. Flacc.: ruit imbriferum [[ver]], Verg. – 2) übtr.: a) übh.: r. in [[arma]] ac dimicationem, [[einen]] blinden [[Hang]] [[haben]] zu usw., Liv.: crudelitatis [[odio]] in crudelitatem, Liv.: mutuis [[inter]] se odiis in [[bellum]], Iustin.: r. in [[servitium]], in [[exitium]], Tac.: in sua fata, Ov.: [[omnia]] fatis in [[peius]] ruere, Verg.: [[avide]] ad libertatem, Liv.: ad interitum, Cic.: se in errores, Gell. 6 (7), 2, 8. – [[quo]] ruis? quibus periculis te [[obicis]]? Plin. ep. – [[quo]] scelesti ruitis? Hor. – poet. m. Infin., [[quo]] ruis [[imprudens]] dicere fata? Prop. 4, 1, 71: u. so Stat. Theb. 7, 177. Claud. rapt. Pros. 3, 387. – impers., ut [[ferme]] fugiendo in media fata ruitur, Liv. 8, 24, 4. – b) insbes., vom unüberlegten, stürmischen [[Handeln]], [[sich]] [[überstürzen]], [[sich]] [[übereilen]], [[unüberlegt]]-, [[stürmisch]] [[handeln]], seinem Sturze entgegeneilen, r. in agendo, in dicendo, Cic.: emptorem od. reum ruere pati, Cic. u. Liv.: vide, ne [[quid]] [[imprudens]] ruas, Ter.: cum [[cotidie]] rueret, Cic.: [[non]] compescere ruentes, Tac.<br />'''B)''' prägn., [[stürzen]] = [[nieder]]-, herabstüzen, [[einstürzen]], [[sinken]], 1) eig.: a) (poet.) v. Pers.: ruebant victores victique, Verg.: [[nec]] [[quisquam]] [[primus]] ruit, Val. Flacc. – b) v. Lebl.: ruere [[illa]] [[non]] possunt, ut [[haec]] [[non]] [[eodem]] labefacta motu concĭdant, Cic.: ruunt parietes, [[aedes]], Plaut.: ruunt templa deûm, [[aulaea]], Hor.: ruere in agris tecta, Liv.: [[supra]] [[sese]] ruere [[omnia]] tecta, Lucr.: [[murus]] latius, [[quam]] caederetur, ruebat, Liv. – ruit alta a culmine [[Troia]], Verg. – [[neve]] ruant caeli tonitralia templa [[superne]], Lucr.: so ruit [[arduus]] [[aether]] (d.i. [[Unwetter]], [[Regen]] u. dgl.), Verg.: [[caelum]] imbribus immodicis, Mart.: [[caelum]] in se, Liv.: [[turbidus]] [[imber]] aquā, Verg.: [[tempestas]]. Tac. – Sprichw., v. [[sehr]] zaghaften u. furchtsamen Menschen, Cl. Quid tum [[quaeso]], si [[hoc]] [[pater]] resciverit? Sy. Quid si [[nunc]] [[caelum]] ruat? Ter. heaut. 719. – 2) übtr., [[niederstürzen]], [[sinken]], [[ratio]] ruat [[omnis]], [[vita]] [[quoque]] ipsa concĭdat [[extemplo]], Lucr.: [[quae]] cum accĭdunt [[nemo]] est [[quin]] intellegat, ruere illam rem publicam, Cic.: quem vocet divûm [[populus]] ruentis imperii rebus? Hor.: Vitellium ne prosperis [[quidem]] parem, [[adeo]] ruentibus debilitatum, [[durch]] [[Sinken]], [[durch]] den [[Untergang]] [[des]] Glückes, Tac.<br />'''II)''' tr.: A) fortraffen, [[aufraffen]], d.i. 1) [[eilig]] [[fortnehmen]], a) übh.: cinerem et confusa [[ossa]] focis, Verg.: atram nubem ad [[caelum]], emporführen, Verg. – b) = [[eilig]] [[zusammenraffen]], -[[zusammenscharren]], [[unde]] divitias aerisque ruam acervos, Hor. [[sat]]. 2, 5, 21 sq.; – 2) aus der [[Tiefe]] aufwühlen, a) übh.: (tauri) terram ruebant, Lucr.: cum [[mare]] permotum ventis ruit [[intus]] arenam, Lucr.: ruunt (venti) totum [[mare]] a sedibus imis, Verg.: r. spumas salis aere, v. Schiffenden, Verg. – b) in der jurist. [[Sprache]] der t. t., rūta et [[caesa]] und asyndet. rūta [[caesa]], alles, [[was]] [[auf]] einem Grundstücke ausgegraben ([[ruta]]) u. gefällt ([[caesa]]) worden ist, [[ohne]] verarbeitet worden zu [[sein]], u. vom Besitzer beim Verkaufe zurückgehalten wird, rohes [[Material]], Cic., Crass. ([[bei]] Cic.) u. ICt. ([[wegen]] [[des]] [[hier]] [[langen]] u s. 1. VarroLL. 9, 104).<br />'''B)''' etw. [[niederreißen]], [[niederstürzen]], imbres fluctusque frangere [[malum]], ruere antennas, scindere [[vela]] etc., Plaut. – naves ([[vis]] venti) ruit, Lucr.: ceteros ruerem, agerem, raperem, tunderem et prosternerem, Ter.: immanem molem volvuntque ruuntque, Verg.: cumulos ruit [[pinguis]] arenae, zerschlägt, ebnet, Verg. – refl. in praedam [[superne]] [[sese]], [[sich]] [[herabstürzen]], Apul. flor. 2. p. 2, 19 Kr.
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{{LaEn
|lnetxt=ruo ruere, rui, rutus V :: destroy, ruin, overthrow; rush on, run; fall; charge (in + ACC); be ruined
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