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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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