Proruo, próruis, prórui, prórutum, pen. cor. prorúere. Liu.To driue or beate downe: to cast downe diolently.Montes lapsu ingenti proruit.Liu.With the violent course, it did beate downe hils.Albam fundamentis proruerunt. Li. They ouerthrew the citie Alba and cast it downe to the ground.In caput proruit.Val. Flac.Foras simul omnes proruunt se. Ter. They all rush out at the doores togither in a cluster.Aciem hostilem proruere. Vide ACIES.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-rŭo, rŭi, rŭtum, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act., to cast or tear down in front, to pull down, throw down, hurl to the ground, overthrow, overturn, demolish (class.): his (munitionibus) prorutis, Caes. B. G. 3, 26: vallo proruto, jam in castra proclium intulerat, Liv. 4, 29; Curt. 4, 13, 26; columnam, Hor. C. 1, 35, 14: Albam a fundamentis,
to raze to the ground
, Liv. 26, 13: vallum in fossas, id. 9, 14; 9, 37: terrae motus montes, id. 22, 5: terrae motibus prorutae domus,
thrown down
, Tac. A. 12, 43: prorutae arbores, id. ib. 2, 17: proruere ac profligare hostem,
to overthrow
, id. H. 3, 22.—With se, to rush out, hurry forth (poet.): foras simul omnes proruunt se, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 51: prorutus tumulo cinis, Sen. Troad. 648.—II.Neutr.A.To rush forth, to rush or fall upon an enemy: ex parte, quā (dextrum cornu) proruebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 69: proruere in hostem, Curt. 4, 16, 6; cf. Gell. 1, 11, 2.— B.To tumble down (post-Aug.): motu terrae oppidum proruit, Tac. A. 15, 22.