trample Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig.1. calco, 12. conculco, 13. obtĕro, trīvi, trītum, 34. prōculco, 15. opprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3 • trample: ; trample-on: ; trample-upon: I. Lit.: calco, 1, obtĕro, 3, prōculco, 1, prōtĕro, 3: v. tread (down), crush. Phr.: a plain t.d continually by horses, campus assiduis pulsatus equis, Ov. Met. 6, 219. II. Fig.: 1. calco, 1: to t. on love, pedibus c. amorem, id. Am. 3, 11, 5. Join: obtero et c., Liv. 34, 2. 2. conculco, 1: to t. on wretched Italy, c. miseram Italiam, Cic. Att. 8, 11. Join: protero et c., id. Flacc. 22, fin. 3. obtĕro, trīvi, trītum, 3: to t. on the rights of the people, o. jura populi, Liv. 3, 56: Cic. 4. prōculco, 1: the senate being t.d upon, proculcato senatu, Tac. Hist. 1, 40. 5. opprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3: v. overwhelm.
TRAMPLE Copy link • TRAMPLEPROP., conculcare (Cic.): proculcare (Liv.): pedibus proterere aliquid (Plaut.): proterere aliquid (Caes., Liv.). Figuratively, conculcare, obterere, pervertere aliquid. To trample upon the rights of the people, jura, majestatem populi obterere (Liv.): to trample upon divine and human laws, jura divina atque humana pervertere (Cic.).