Corruo, pen cor. córrui, córrutum pen. cor. corrúere. Liu.To fall downe togither: to fall grieuously: to fayle: to erre.Arbor corruit.Ouid.Equus corruit. Sil. Oppida corruetunt. Cic.Corruit igne rogus.Ouid. Saucius eose corruit. Propert. Tabernæ mihi duæ corruerunt, reliquæ rimas agunt.Cic.Vrbs tota corruit.Cic. Frangi & corruere. Cic.Risu corrui.I could not stand with laughing. Corruisse opes dicuntur, quæ corruptæ sunt.Cicer.To be wasted and spent.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cor-rŭo (conr-), ŭi, 3, v. n. and a.I.Neutr.A.To fall together, fall or tumble down, fall, sink to the ground, etc. (class. in prose and poetry). 1.Lit.: tabernae mihi duae corruerunt, Cic. Att. 14, 9, 1; cf.: aedes corruerunt, id. Top. 3, 15: triclinium supra convivas, Quint. 11, 2, 13: quicquid superstruxeris corruet, id. 1, 4, 5: quid labefactum viribus ignis, Ov. M. 2, 403; cf.: arbor labefacta Ictibus innumeris, id. ib. 8, 777; so, arbor, Suet. Dom. 15: statuae equestres, id. Vit. 9 et saep.: paene ille timore, ego risu conrui, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 2: nec corruit ille, Sed retinente manum moriens e poste pependit, Ov. M. 5, 126; so, exspirantes corruerunt, Liv. 1, 25, 5; cf. id. 1, 26, 14: morbo comitiali, Plin. 28, 6, 17, 63: in vulnus, Verg. A. 10, 488: haedus ante focos, Prop. 2 (3), 19, 14; cf. id. 4 (5), 10, 15 sq.—2.Trop.: si uno meo fato et tu et omnes mei conruistis, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 1: quanto altius elatus erat, eo foedius corruit, Liv. 30, 30, 23: Lacedaemoniorum opes, Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84: Antiochea ista universa, id. Ac. 2, 31, 98.—Of actors: ii mihi videntur fabulam aetatis peregisse, nec tamquam inexercitati histriones corruisse, Cic. Sen. 18, 64.—In a cause in court, to fail, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 34.—B.To fall, to rush headlong (very rare): quo cum corruit haec vis, Lucr. 6, 825: accipitres velut rostris inter se corruerent, were falling upon each other (al. leg. concurrerent), Curt. 3, 3, 18.— Impers.: longe violentius semper ex necessitate quam ex virtute corruitur,
the onset is made
, Sen. Q. N. 2, 59, 5.—II.Act., to bring to the ground, to heap together, overthrow, ruin (very rare). 1.Lit.: hanc rerum summam, Lucr. 5, 369: corpus, App. M. 8, p. 204, 37: divitias,
to heap up
, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 58: corbes ab eo quod eo spicas aliudve quid corruebant, Varr. L. L. 5, 139 Müll.— 2.Trop.: in quo me corruerit genere, Cat. 68, 52.