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I. To eat greedily or quickly: corrĭpĭo, 3: Cerberus opening wide his three throats s.s up the morsel thrown to him, Cerberus tria guttura pandens c. objectam (offam), Virg. Aen. 6, 422. Cf. also dēvŏro, obsorbeo, etc. (v.TO DEVOUR , GULP DOWN , GOBBLE ): *aperto ore captare (of a dog), Georg.
II. To snatch up, seize, q. v. for lit. sense: and for fig. sense, e. g. to s. up reports, excipere rumores: v.TO CATCH UP . Also, to s. up by stealth, surrĭpio (v. TO FILCH , STEAL ).
III. To interrupt abusivelyor abruptly: perh. corripio convicio, Caes. B. C. 1, 2: also corripio, absol., Suet. Ner. 35, init. Cf. also Cic. Att. 5, 1, 4, absurde et aspere verbis vultuque respondere. Phr.: to s. up one who is mistaken, eripere errorem alicui, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6: cf. demere per vim errorem, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140.
I. To eat greedily or quickly: corrĭpĭo, 3: Cerberus opening wide his three throats s.s up the morsel thrown to him, Cerberus tria guttura pandens c. objectam (offam), Virg. Aen. 6, 422. Cf. also dēvŏro, obsorbeo, etc. (v.
II. To snatch up, seize, q. v. for lit. sense: and for fig. sense, e. g. to s. up reports, excipere rumores: v.
III. To interrupt abusively