conquasso
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Latin > English
conquasso conquassare, conquassavi, conquassatus V TRANS :: shake violently; break, shatter; unsettle, disturb, throw into confusion
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-quasso: no
I perf., ātum, 1, v. a.
I To shake severely (several times in Lucr. and Cic., elsewh. very rare; after Cic. only in late Lat.).
A Lit.: corpus ex aliqua re, Lucr. 3, 442: omnia graviter terrarum motibus ortis, id. 5, 107; cf.: Appulia maximis terrae motibus conquassata, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 97; Cod. Just. 1, 14, 6, § 5.—
B Trop., to shatter, disturb: conquassatur enim tum mens animaeque potestas (corresp. with collabefieri), Lucr. 3, 599: exteras nationes illius anni furore, Cic. Sest. 26, 56: civitatem, id. Vatin. 8, 19: omnes provincias, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4: aliquem maximis periculis, Firm. Math. 3, 13, 4.—*
II To shatter, dash to pieces: calicem, Cato, R. R. 52, 2.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
conquassō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre, tr.,
1 secouer fortement : Cic. Div. 1, 97 || briser, casser : Cato Agr. 52, 2
2 [fig.] ébranler, bouleverser : mens conquassatur Lucr. 3, 600, l’esprit est disloqué ; provinciæ conquassatæ sunt Sulpic. d. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4, les provinces ont été bouleversées, cf. Cic. Vat. 19 ; Sest. 56.
Latin > German (Georges)
con-quasso, āvī, ātum, āre, zusammenschütteln, I) = in seinen Grundfesten erschüttern, 1) eig.: cum Apulia maximis terrae motibus conquassata esset, Cic. de div. 1, 97. – 2) übtr.: a) physisch Körper od. Geist erschüttern, zerrütten, conquassatum corpus (quasi vas animae) ex alqa re, Lucr.: conquassatur mens animaeque potestas, Lucr. – b) politisch der Macht, dem Wohlstande nach erschüttern, zerrütten, conquassatas exteras nationes illius anni furore, Cic.: omnes provinciae conquassatae sunt, Sulpic. in Cic. ep. – II) prägn., zertrümmern, zerschlagen, calicem, Cato r. r. 52, 2.
