To breake in sunder, or in the mids: to breake in peeces: to breake or enter by force: to breake through vtnlently. Cæsar. Quum nequissent perrumpere ad suos. Li. WhÊ they could not with violence breake to their company. Iam in vestibulum perruperant templi. Li. They were now by force entred into, &c. In arces perrumpere. Sil. Violently to breake into. Perrumpere per mediam hostium aciem. Liu. Aciem perrumpere. Virg. To breake the aray. Acrem perrumpere. Ci. To pierce the ayre. Perrumpere & diuidere aerem. Cic. To diuide and part the aire. Agmen perrumpere. Claud. To make a way through a company by force. Castra & agmen perrumpere. Plin. iun. Liui. To breake into the enemies and assaile them in their campe. Perrumpit omnes difficultates. Plin. There is no stoppe or let but that he passeth through it. Leges perrumpere. Cic. To breake and violate lawes. Limina perrumpit bipenni. Virg. Nodos validos perrumpere. Lucret. Perriculum perrumpere. Cic. Violently to passe and scape through a danger. Perrumpere saxa. Horat. Affectu perrumpi. Tacit.

I. Neutr., to break or rush through, to force one's way through: per medios hostes perrumpunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 39: in vestibulum templi, Liv. 3, 18: in urbem, id. 10, 41: in triclinium usque, Suet. Oth. 8.—Impers. pass.: nec per castra eorum perrumpi ad Capuam posse, Liv. 26, 7. —

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1. In gen., to break through any thing: ut rates perrumperet, Caes. B. C. 1, 26: perrumpitur concretus aër, Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 42: bipenni Limina, Verg. A. 2, 479: laterum cratem, Ov. M. 12, 370: costam, Cels. 8, 9.—

2. In partic., to force one's way through any thing: paludem, Caes. B. G. 7, 19: acie perruptā, Vell. 2, 112, 6; Tac. H. 2, 44: perruptus hostis, id. A. 1, 51: Acheronta, Hor. C. 1, 3, 36.—

B. Trop., to break through, break down, overcome: leges, Cic. Off. 3, 8, 36: periculum, id. Part. 32, 112: quaestiones, id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, 13: perrumpi affectu aliquo, Tac. A. 3, 15: magistratus, qui te invito perrumpunt, overcome your modesty, id. ib. 4, 40: fastidia, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 25.