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strāges , is, f. sterno, II. B.,
I.a throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Cæs.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.
B. Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.: “quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!Verg. A. 6, 829: “confusae stragis acervus,id. ib. 6, 504: “complere strage campos,Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.: “strages facere,Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: “strages edere,id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. “also II.: cruentae,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.—*
II. Trop., overthrow, ruin, destruction: “quas ego pugnas et quantas strages edidi!Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (20):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.16.1
    • Cicero, Philippics, 3.12.31
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 34
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.829
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.526
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.454
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.536
    • Tacitus, Annales, 14.36
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.76
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.86
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 63
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 33
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 43
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 24
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 30
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 32
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 21
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 3.9
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 6.6
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