destruction, overthrow
Latin word, found 105 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.505: hic petit excidiis urbem miserosque Penatis,
Vergil, Aeneid 1.22: venturum excidio Libyae: sic volvere Parcas.
Horace, Sermones 1.3.76: denique, quatenus excidi penitus vitium irae,
All forms of excidium