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concerpo

concerpo, to tear in pieces, rend

con-cerpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [carpo], to pluck, pull, or tear in pieces, to rend (rare).
  • I Prop.: epistulas, Cic. Att. 10, 12, 3: librum, Liv. 38, 55, 11; cf. Gell. 4, 18, 12; cf. litteras, Suet. Ner. 47: folia coronae concerpta, Plin. 21, 3, 9, § 13: linteolum, lint, id. 28, 15, 61, § 216; 31, 9, 45, § 100.— *
  • II Trop. (acc. to carpo, II. B. b. α), to abuse, revile, censure: Curionem ferventissime, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5.

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