(verb) : irrumpo (inr-), rūpi, ruptum, 3, and
* A. [in-rumpo], to break, burst, or rush in or into.
* Lit.
* With advv. or prepp.: cesso huc intro inrumpere?Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 26: nec inrumpo, quo non licet ire,Ov. P. 1, 7, 23: quocunque,id. Tr. 2, 305: qua irrumpens oceanus, etc.,Plin. 3 prooem. § 3: in castra,Cic. Div. 1, 24, 50; Caes. B. G. 4, 14; 6, 36: in eam partem hostium,id. ib. 5, 43: in medios hostes,id. ib. 7, 50: in castellum,id. B. C. 3, 67: cum telis ad aliquem,Sall. C. 50, 2: ad regem,Vulg. 4 Reg. 3, 26: mare in aversa Asiae,Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 36: intra tecta,Sen. Oct. 732: tellurem irrumpentem in sidera,Sil. 15, 167: se in curiam, Varr. ap. Non. 263, 21: irrumpentis in curiam turbae,Suet. Calig. 14: in Macedoniam,Just. 24, 6, 1: vacuos in agros,Luc. 2, 441.
* Trop., to break or rush in or upon; to intrude upon, invade, attack, interrupt: quo modo in Academiam irruperit,Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 136: imagines in animos per corpus irrumpunt,id. ib. 2, 40, 125: in alicujus patrimonium,id. de Or. 3, 27, 108: luxuries in domum irrupit,id. ib. 3, 42, 168: in nostrum fletum,id. Lig. 5, 13: calamitates, quae ad me irruperunt,Sen. Ep. 117: irrumpet adulatio,Tac. H. 1, 15: grammatici ad prosopopoeias usque ... irrumpunt, venture upon, i. e. presume to teach, Quint. 2, 1, 2: Deos,i. e. boldly inquire the will of the gods,Stat. Achill. 1, 508: Phoebe, hanc dignare irrumpere mentem,to enter, inspire,id. Th. 10, 341: animos populi,Luc. 1, 470; 5, 167: extremique fragor convexa irrupit Olympi,id. 7, 478.
* With dat.: thalamo,Verg. A. 6, 528: templo,Sil. 2, 378: trepidis,id. 9, 365: sacris muris,id. 10, 368: tectis,id. 13, 176.
* Absol.: cum irrumpere nostri conarentur,Caes. B. C. 3, 67: ad primum gemitum,upon the first groan,Suet. Oth. 11: dixit et irrupit,Ov. F. 6, 453: cognoscit hostes pluribus agminibus inrupturos,Tac. Agr. 25.
* To break, violate: foedus,Lact. 1, 18, 17; Vulg. 2 Macc. 13, 25: institutum, Lact. de Ira Dei, 14, 6: legem,Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 20: pacem,Cassiod. Var. 5, 43.

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