I.to seize or snatch up, to collect, to seize upon, take hold of (very freq., and class. in prose and poetry).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “hominem conripi ac suspendi jussit in oleastro,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 57; Caes. B. C. 3, 109; cf. Ov. M. 9, 217 al.: “arcumque manu celeresque sagittas,” Verg. A. 1, 188; cf.: “lora manu,” Ov. M. 2, 145: “fasces,” Sall. C. 18, 5: “arma,” Vell. 2, 110 et saep.: corpus, to rise up quickly, start up: “ex somno,” Lucr. 3, 164; Verg. A. 4, 572: “de terrā,” Lucr. 4, 1000: “e stratis,” Verg. A. 3, 176: se, to get or rise up hastily, to betake one's self somewhere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 76; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 6, 472.—Poet.: viam, gradum, spatium, etc., to set out quickly, to pursue hastily, to hasten, hasten through or over: “viam,” Verg. A. 1, 418; Ov. M. 2, 158; Plin. Ep. 4, 1, 6: “gradum,” Hor. C. 1, 3, 33: “spatia,” Verg. A. 5, 316: “campum,” id. G. 3, 104: “aequora,” Val. Fl. 1, 132 al.: “correptā luce diei,” collected, Lucr. 4, 81.—
B. In partic.
1. Of robbery, etc., to carry off, rob, plunder, take possession of, usurp: “pecunias undique quasi in subsidium,” Tac. A. 13, 18; cf.: “bona vivorum ac mortuorum usquequaque,” Suet. Dom. 12: “pecunias,” Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Tac. A. 13, 31 fin.: “sacram effigiem,” Verg. A. 2, 167: “praefecturas,” Tac. A. 11, 8 al.—
2. In Tac. freq. of accusations, to bring to trial, accuse, inform against: “Vitellius accusatione corripitur, deferente Junio Lupo senatore,” Tac. A. 12, 42; 2, 28; 3, 49; 6, 40 al.—
3. Of fire, etc., or of diseases, to attack, seize, sweep, or carry away (freq. after the Aug. per.): “turbine caelesti subito correptus et igni,” Lucr. 6, 395; cf. Verg. A. 1, 45: “flamma Corripuit tabulas,” id. ib. 9, 537; so Ov. M. 2, 210 al.; “and transf. to the person: ipsas ignes corripuere casas,” id. F. 2, 524: “nec singula morbi Corpora corripiunt,” Verg. G. 3, 472; Cels. 6, 18, 9; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 172: “morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est,” Suet. Caes. 45: “pedum dolore,” Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4; “rarely of death: subitā morte,” Flor. 3, 17, 2: “(ales) caeco correpta veneno,” Lucr. 6, 823: “(segetes) modo sol nimius, nimius modo corripit imber,” Ov. M. 5, 483.—Absol.: “si (paralytici) correpti non sunt, diutius quidem vivunt, sed, etc.,” Cels. 3, 47, 4.—
4. With the access. idea of lessening by compressing, to draw together, draw in, contract, shorten, abridge, diminish (rare; mostly post-Aug.): singulos a septenis spatiis ad quina corripuit. Suet. Dom. 4: “impensas,” id. Tib. 34; “of discourse: quae nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas,” Quint. 4, 2, 44; “of words in the number of syllables (trabs from trabes),” Varr. L. L. 7, § 33 Müll.; “or in the length of syllables,” Quint. 9, 4, 89; 10, 1, 29; “and so of syllables (opp. producere),” id. 1, 5, 18; “opp. porrigere,” id. 1, 6, 32, and later grammarians.—In time: “numina corripiant moras,” shorten, Ov. M. 9, 282: “ut difficiles puerperiorum tricas Juno mulceat corripiatque Lucina?” Arn. 3, 21.—
II. Trop.
A. To reproach, reprove, chide, blame (first freq. after the Aug. per.; “not in Cic.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,” Caes. B. C. 1, 2: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so with abl., Suet. Aug. 53: “impransi correptus voce magistri,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 257: “hunc cetera turba suorum corripiunt dictis,” Ov. M. 3, 565 al.: “ut eum non inimice corripere, sed paene patrie monere videatur,” Quint. 11, 1, 68; Liv. 2, 28, 5; Suet. Calig. 45; Ov. M. 13, 69 al.: “corripientibus amicis,” Suet. Ner. 35.—As a figure of speech, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104.—
B. Of the passions, emotions, etc., to seize upon, attack (rare, and mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose): “hunc plausus hiantem ... plebisque patrumque Corripuit ( = animum commovit),” Verg. G. 2, 510: “correpta cupidine,” Ov. M. 9, 734; so id. ib. 9, 455: “duplici ardore (sc. amoris et vini),” Prop. 1, 3, 13: “misericordiā,” Suet. Calig. 12: “irā,” Gell. 1, 26, 8: militiā (poet. for militiae studio), Verg. A. 11, 584: “imagine visae formae,” seized, fascinated, Ov. M. 4, 676.
