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run aground

run aground:

I. Trans.:

1. impingo, pēgi, pactum, 3: cf. Quint. 4, 1, 6, pessimus gubernator qui navem dum portum egreditur impegit (where the ref. is to letting a ship run foul of any object): they ran the ship a., navem impegerunt, Vulg. Acts xxvii. 41.

2. ējĭcio, jēci, ctum, 3 (to run a ship ashore): they ran their ships a. at Chios, naves ad Chium ejecere, Liv. 44, 28, ad fin.: Caes. B. C. 3, 28. (In pass. = to be wrecked.)

II. Intrans.:

1. impingor, 3: v. supr.

2. haereo, si, sum, 2: (the ship of Sergestus) ran a. on the projecting rocks, in procurrentibus saxis haesit, Virg. Aen. 5, 204.

3. perh. illīdor, īsus, 3: cf. ib. 1, 112 (naves saxis illidit).

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