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|lshtext=<b>ingrŭo</b>: ŭi, 3, v. n. in-ruo, [[with]] an epenth. g from [[gruo]], kindr. [[with]] [[κρούω]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[rush]] or [[break]] [[into]], to [[fall]] [[violently]] [[upon]], [[assail]], [[attack]] (syn. [[incumbo]]; differing from [[immineo]] and [[impendo]], in [[that]] it denotes the [[actual]] doing of [[that]] [[which]] [[they]] [[merely]] [[threaten]]; not in Cic. or Cæs.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri [[contra]] ingruunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 81: ingruit [[Aeneas]] Italis, Verg. A. 12, 628; cf.: ingruere hostes, id. ib. 11, 899: [[simul]] ingruunt saxa jaciunt, Tac. A. 1, 27: ingruentes accusatores, id. ib. 6, 38: ingruente in Italiam Hannibale, id. H. 3, 34.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things: [[ferreus]] ingruit [[imber]], Verg. A. 12, 284: [[umbra]] vitibus, id. G. 2, 410: nox, Tac. A. 4, 50: [[tela]], id. ib. 1, 65: ingruere morbi in remiges coeperunt, Liv. 37, 23, 2: si [[bellum]] ingrueret, Verg. A. 8, 535; Tac. A. 1, 48: si [[nullus]] ingruat [[metus]], Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95: si [[quid]] [[subitum]] ingruat, Tac. A. 4, 2: [[damnatio]], id. ib. 4, 35.
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