Ruo, ruis, rui, rutum, rúere. Virg.To fall: to rush or breake out or downe drolently: to runne headlong and with diolenteo go hastily: to poure out: to subuerte: to ouerthrowe or cast down violently: to dig vp or cut out of the ground: to break asunder. To throwe down. To fall in out or be deceiued.Subito casu ruunt.Ouid.Ruit cœlum imbribus. Mart. It rayneth sore, or as heauen it selfe woulde fall.Ruit dies.Virg.The day commeth on.Ira ruit resoluta frænis legum. Luc. Anger becing out of the feare of the law is outragions, and dath what he listeth.Nox ruit.Virg.Night commeth on.Sol ruit. Vir. The sunne goeth downe, and night approcheth.Ruant venti hcet, & sæuiant procellæ. Plin. Ruit Ver.Virg.The spring draweth towarde an ende. Amnes de monribus ruunt.Virg.Riuers runne dialently downe from hilles.Flumina ruunt per apertos campos, Oui, Riuers rise aboue the bankes and ouerflowe the fielde.Impetus vndæ ruit.Ouid. Ruere.Virg.To runne on headleng: to rush: to go hastily: to do a thing hastily and rashly.Vide nequid imprudens, ruas. Teren. See you play no wilde rouch ere you be ware.Illum ruere nuntiant. Cicero. They say he commeth with all haste and speede possible.Ruebat ad conuiuium miles.Tacit.Ruere ad vrbem infesto agmine, Liu.With great speede togo with an armie againste the citie.Qua impetus agit, sine lege ruere.Ouid.Ruere portis. Liuius. To runne or rushe out at the gates in plumpes.In agendo ruere, & sæpe peccare.Cic.To erre.In media arma ruere. Virgil. To rusheinto the midle of the battaile.Curru in bella ruere.Virg.In facinus ruere. Sen. Per omnefasque nefasqueruere. Luca. To runne headlong to do all mischiefe.In media fata ruere.Liu.In ferrum ruere.Virg.To runue headlong on the weapon.In fugam ruere.Liu.In furias & ignem ruere.Virg.Ad interitum ruere.Cic.To runne headlong to daunger of present death.Per medios ruit. Vir. He rusheth through the midst of them.Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas. Horat. Mans nature. goeth headlong to mischiefe forbidden.In perniciem suam ruere.Liu.Auidi in prælium runnt.Liu.In rixam ruere. Quint. In vulnera actela ruere.Liu. Emptorem pati ruere.Cic.To suffer the buyer to runne in errour and be deceiued. Ruere, Accusatiuo iunctum.Virg. Cumulosque ruit malè pinguis arenæ. And he diggeth downe and casteth abroad hither and thither the heapes of barraine sande.Sues ruunt herbas & limum. Plin. The swine roote vp both hearbs and the earth, casting it abroade.Ignis ruit atram nubem.Virg.The fire casteth vp violentlye a blacke cloude of smoke. Cæteros ruerem, agerem.Terent.The other I would cast headlong down to the ground, &c. Confusa ruebant Ossa focis.Virg. Ruere, pro Iracundè furere.Cic.To rage or be in a greate furie.
Ruta, rutæ, Herba. Plin. The hearbe rue.Acuentes lumina rutæ.Ouid.
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rŭo, ŭi, ŭtum (ruiturus, a, um, Ov. M. 4, 459; Luc. 7, 404; Mart. 1, 88, 4; Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 8; 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). I.Neutr. (very freq. and class.). A.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. 1. 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. —2.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.—B.Trop.1. (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.—2. (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, 63fin.; 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.—II.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.) A.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.—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.