(verb) : confringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, frango
* To break in pieces (class. in prose and poetry).
* Prop.: hirneam,Cato, R. R. 81: pultando pedibus paene confregi hasce ambas (fores),Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 25: fores caedendo,Liv. 26, 46, 6: portarum claustra,Lucr. 1, 71: imbrices et tegulas,Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 24; id. Capt. 4, 4, 8: digitos,Cic. Fl. 30, 73: ossa,Plin. 28, 10, 45, § 159: arbores vi tempestatis,Dig. 39, 2, 24: enses ensibus,Luc. 7, 573: turres valli impetu,id. 6, 123: confracta navis,Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 64; cf. * Suet. Ner. 34: scaeptra manu,Sen. Herc. Fur. 272.—Prov.: tesseram (hospitalem),to break friendship, violate faith,Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 36.
* Trop., to break, bring to naught, destroy: rem,to dissipate, run through property,Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 49; id. Trin. 1, 2, 71: superbiam, Titin. ap. Non. p. 316, 3: consilia senatoria,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 13: vires hostium,Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 17: rem publicam,id. 4, 5, 2; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 69.—Hence, confractus, a, um, P. a., broken, uneven: in confracto (opp. in aequo),Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 127.

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