dīripiō

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to separate, tear apart / pillage, devastate, lay waste.

to tear in pieces, lay waste, devastate, plunder.

dī-rĭpĭo, ŭi, eptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to tear asunder, tear in pieces (class.).

In gen. (rarely):

Pentheum diripuisse aiunt Bacchas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 1:

Hippolytum (equi),

Ov. A. A. 1, 338; id. F. 5, 310:

nec opinantes (leae),

Lucr. 5, 1319:

membra manibus nefandis,

Ov. M. 3, 731 et saep.:

venti diripiunt fretum,

Stat. Th. 5, 367. —

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to lay waste, ravage, spoil, plunder an enemy's territory or possessions (so most freq.):

bona alicujus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 3, 1; 7, 42, 3; 7, 43, 2:

magnum numerum frumenti commeatusque,

id. ib. 7, 38, 9:

impedimenta,

id. ib. 2, 17, 3:

naves more praedonum,

id. B. C. 3, 112, 3:

praedas bellicas,

Sall. J. 41, 7 et saep.:

oppidum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 2; 3, 80 fin.:

urbes,

Liv. 37, 32 fin.:

tecta,

id. 5, 41:

templa hostiliter,

id. 37, 21; cf.:

castra hostiliter,

id. 2, 14; and:

oppida hostiliter,

Suet. Caes. 54:

civitates,

Caes. B. C. 3, 31 fin.:

provincias,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

patriam,

id. Att. 8, 2, 3 et saep.—

With personal objects:

Eburones,

Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 8; 6, 35, 4:

Lusitanos,

Nep. Cato, 3, 4:

ab hostibus diripi,

Caes. B. G. 7, 8, 4; cf. id. B. C. 2, 12, 4 al.—

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, to destroy, to rob:

(Harpyiae) diripiunt dapes,

Verg. A. 3, 227:

supellectilem,

Suet. Ner. 11.—

To struggle, strive, contend for a thing (post-Aug.):

talos jecit in medium, quos pueri diripere coeperant,

Quint. 6, 1, 47: editum librum, to buy up rapidly, Suet. Vita Pers. fin. —Of persons:

diripitur ille toto foro patronus,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 7; so,

Timagenem, id. de Ira, 3, 23: Homerum (urbes),

Stat. Silv. 5, 3, 131:

matrem avidis complexibus ambo,

id. Th. 5, 722:

te potentiores per convivia,

Mart. 7, 76.—

To tear away, snatch away:

direpto ex capite regni insigni et lacerata veste,

Curt. 7, 5, 24:

ferrum a latere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; Hor. C. 3, 5, 21 Stallb. (al. derepta). —

Trop., of the mind and feelings, to distract, distress:

differor, distrahor, diripior,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5.

dīreptus, a, um, Part., from diripio.

dīreptus, ūs, m. [diripio], a plundering, Spart. Sever. 19.

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aufĕro, abstŭli, ablātum, auferre, v. a. [ab-fero; cf. ab init. ], to take or bear off or away, to carry off, withdraw, remove (very freq. in prose and poetry; syn.: tollo, fero, rapio, eripio, diripio, adimo, averto).

In gen.

1.. Lit.:

ab januā stercus,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 18:

dona,

id. Am. prol. 139:

aurum atque ornamenta abs te,

id. Mil. 4, 1, 36:

abstulit eos a conspectu,

Vulg. 4 Reg. 17, 18:

auferas me de terrā hac,

ib. Gen. 47, 30:

vos istaec intro auferte,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 1:

Auferte ista hinc,

Vulg. Joan. 2, 16:

aether multos secum levis abstulit ignīs,

Lucr. 5, 459; 3, 230; 3, 439; 3, 717; 5, 205; 5, 725; 6, 622; Turp. ap. Non. p. 422, 21:

multa domum suam auferebat,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.:

liberi per delectus alibi servituri auferuntur (a Romanis),

are carried away, Tac. Agr. 31:

quem vi abstulerant servi,

Vulg. Gen. 21, 25.—So of sick persons, or those unable to walk:

auferere, non abibis, si ego fustem sumpsero,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 202 (cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 298:

lumbifragium hinc auferes): asoti, qui in mensam vomant et qui de conviviis auferantur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23. —Auferre se, in colloquial lang., to remove one ' s self, to withdraw, retire, go away:

Te, obsecro hercle, aufer modo,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 93:

aufer te domum,

id. As. 2, 4, 63.—

Of bodies that are borne away by wings, by the winds, waves, or any other quick motion, to bear or carry away, sweep away, etc. (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

aliquem ad scopulum e tranquillo auferre,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 8:

unda rates,

Prop. 1, 8, 14:

auferor in scopulos,

Ov. M. 9, 593:

auferet,

id. ib. 15, 292 al.:

in silvam pennis ablata refugit,

Verg. A. 3, 258; 11, 867:

ne te citus auferat axis,

Ov. M. 2, 75:

vento secundo vehementi satis profecti celeriter e conspectu terrae ablati sunt,

Liv. 29, 27:

(Bubo) volat numquam quo libuit, sed transversus aufertur,

Plin. 10, 12, 16, § 35:

(milites) pavore fugientium auferebantur,

Tac. A. 4, 73.—

Trop., to carry away, mislead:

te hortor, ut omnia gubernes prudentiā tuā, ne te auferant aliorum consilia,

Cic. Fam. 2, 7:

abstulerunt me velut de spatio Graecae res immixtae Romanis,

i. e. have diverted, withdrawn me, from the subject, Liv. 35, 40:

quae contemplatio aufert nos ad ipsorum animalium naturas,

Plin. 27, 13, 120, § 145:

auferre aliquem traversum,

id. 28, 1, 1, § 1 Jan:

ab intentione auferendus auditor,

Quint. 4, 5, 6:

somnus aufert,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 83:

auferimur cultu, i. e. decipimur,

are deceived, duped, Ov. R. Am. 343.—

Esp.,

1.. To take or snatch away; in a good, but more frequently in a bad sense, to take by force, to remove, withdraw, take away violently, rob, steal, etc.:

aliquid eris,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 8:

quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus fuit, id mihi tu, C. Verres, eripuisti atque abstulisti,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 5, 19:

ab hoc abaci vasa omnia abstuiit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 16; so,

pecuniam de aerario,

id. Att. 7, 21:

pecuniam in ventre,

to eat up, to squander, id. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

auriculam mordicus,

to bite off, id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 4:

vestimentum,

Vulg. Luc. 6, 29:

hi ludi dies quindecim auferent,

Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 31:

imperium indignis,

Liv. 3, 67:

legionem,

Tac. H. 4, 48:

consulatum, censuram,

id. ib. 1, 52:

auferat omnia irrita oblivio si potest,

Liv. 28, 29:

spem, voluntatem defensionis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7:

fervorem et audaciam,

Liv. 3, 12:

obsequia,

Tac. H. 1, 80:

misericordiam,

id. ib. 3, 84:

spem veniae,

id. A. 14, 23:

studium,

Cat. 68, 19 sq.; and so Hor. C. 3, 12, 5:

metus,

to banish, Verg. A. 12, 316:

curas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

somnos,

id. C. 2, 16, 16; id. Epod. 5, 96:

pudorem,

Ov. M. 6, 617:

fugam,

to hinder, prevent, Flor. 3, 10, 3 al. —

To take off or away, to destroy, consume, kill, slay, etc. (mostly poet. or in the Aug. histt.):

Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis,

Cat. 3, 15:

abstulit clarum cita mors Achillem,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 29; so id. Epod. 5, 66; id. S. 1, 9, 31:

Auferat hora duos eadem,

Ov. M. 8, 709; 15, 157:

Labienum Varumque acies abstulit,

Vell. 2, 55 fin.:

Quidquid hinc aut illinc communis Mors belli aufert,

Liv. 7, 8; Flor. 3, 17, 9 al.:

Interea quodcumque fuit populabile flammae, Mulciber abstulerat,

had consumed, Ov. M. 9, 263; 14, 575.—

Of places, to separate, sever, divide:

mare septem stadiorum intervallo Europam auferens Asiae,

Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 75:

Armenia Euphrate amne aufertur Cappadociae,

id. 6, 9, 9, § 25. —

To lay aside some action, manner of speaking, etc.; to cease from, desist from, leave off: proinde istaec tua aufer terricula, Att. ap. Non. p. 227, 31:

jurgium hinc auferas,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 19:

aufer nugas,

id. Truc. 4, 4, 8; id. Curc. 2, 1, 30:

pollicitationes aufer,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 17: Ge. Id nosmet ipsos facere oportet, Phaedria. Ph. Aufer mi "oportet:" quin tu, quod faciam, impera, id. ib. 1, 4, 45 Ruhnk. (cf. Juv. 6, 170):

Aufer abhinc lacrimas,

Lucr. 3, 955:

insolentiam,

Phaedr. 3, 6, 8; so absol.: Insanis? Aufer! away! (where nugas may be supplied, as in Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8), Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14.—With inf. as object:

aufer Me vultu terrere,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 43.—

Meton., effect for cause, to corry off ( as the fruit or result of one ' s labor, exertions, errors, etc.), to obtain, get, receive, acquire:

Ecquas viginti minas Paritas ut auferas a me?

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 71; 1, 5, 90; id. Curc. 5, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 2, 56; 2, 2, 9; id. Most. 4, 1, 32; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 62:

id inultum numquam auferet,

id. And. 3, 5, 4; id. Ad. 3, 4, 8 (cf. id. And. 1, 2, 4): paucos dies ab aliquo, to obtain a few days ' respite, Cic. Quinct. 5, 20:

quis umquam ad arbitrum quantum petiit, tantum abstulit?

id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12; so,

responsum ab aliquo,

id. de Or. 1, 56, 239:

decretum,

id. Att. 16, 16, A:

diploma,

id. Fam. 6, 12, 3:

praemium,

Suet. Gram. 17. —Also with ut: ut in foro statuerent (statuas), abstulisti, you have carried the point that they etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59 (so, adsequi, ut, Tac. G. 35).— Trop., to carry away the knowledge of a thing, to learn, understand: quis est in populo Romano, qui hoc non ex priore actione abstulerit? has not learned, does not know, Cic Verr. 2, 1, 8.

dē-rĭpĭo ( - rupio), rĭpŭi, reptum, 3, v. a. [rapio], to tear off, tear away, snatch away, remove violently; to pull down (class., esp. freq. in poets).

Lit. constr., with abl. with or without a prep., or rarely with dat.:

aliquem de ara,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 2; so with de, id. ib. 3, 5, 5; id. Men. 5, 2, 117; Tib. 1, 2, 82 al.; with ab, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 10:

vestem a pectore,

Ov. M. 9, 637:

ferrum a latere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; with ex:

velamina ex humeris,

id. ib. 6, 567; cf.:

aurum matronis,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 18:

pellem leoni,

Ov. M. 3, 52:

pignus lacertis,

Hor. Od. 1, 9, 23; 4, 15, 7:

amphoram horreo,

id. ib. 3, 28, 7:

qualos fumosis tectis,

Verg. G. 2, 242:

lunam caelo,

Hor. Epod. 5, 46 et saep.:

ensem vaginā,

Ov. M. 10, 475:

ramos arbore,

id. ib. 11, 29:

tunicam,

id. Am. 1, 5, 13:

derepta acus,

id. ib. 1, 14, 18:

arma templis,

Sil. 10, 600:

ore frena,

id. 10, 319:

plaustro derepta nurus,

Val. Fl. 2, 160; Tac. A. 1, 20; 2, 45 et saep.— Absol.:

facinus indignum, erum meum hic luci derupier in via,

Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 17.—Prov.:

e caelo deripit ille deos, of outrageous impiety,

Tib. 1, 10, 60.—

Trop.:

quantum de mea auctoritate deripuisset,

Cic. Sull. 1, 2.

and edd. often confounded with diripio q. v.

dīreptĭo, ōnis, f. [diripio], a plundering, pillaging (rare, but good prose):

urbs relicta direptioni et incendiis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 2; cf.

urbis,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 52; * Caes. B. C. 2, 12:

oppidi (with expugnatio),

Suet. Claud. 21:

profanorum sacrorumque,

Quint. 8, 3, 69:

sociorum (with vexatio),

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 18.—In plur., Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2; Liv. 44, 1 fin. —

The stealing, rape:

aurei velleris,

Amm. 22, 8, 15.

ex-pīlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to pillage, rob, plunder (class.; syn.: privo, orbo, compilo, spolio, diripio, populor, vasto, praedor).

Lit.:

si socios spolias, aerarium expilas,

Cic. Par. 6, 1, 43; cf. id. Verr. 2, 4, 27:

ad expilandos socios diripiendasque provincias,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

fana,

id. Off. 3, 23:

armarium,

id. Clu. 64, 181:

thesauros,

Liv. 31, 12, 3: rem hereditariam, [p. 695] Dig. 29, 2, 21; cf.:

expilatae hereditatis,

Dig. 47, tit. 19.—

Trop.:

sumenda sunt nobis ab iis ipsis, a quibus expilati sumus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 123.

pŏpŭlor, ātus, 1. v. dep., and pŏpŭlo, āre, v. a. [1. populus; prop. to spread or pour out in a multitude over a region; hence, transf. to the result], to lay waste, ravage, devastate, desolate; to spoil, plunder, pillage (class.; syn.: vasto, vexo, diripio).

Lit.

Form populor: Romanus exercitus insulam integram urit, populatur, vastat, Naev. ap. Non. 90, 29:

noctu populabatur agros,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33:

Remorum agros,

Caes. B. G. 5, 56:

arva ferro populatur et igni,

Luc. 2, 445; so,

omnia igni ferroque populatus,

Flor. 2, 17, 16:

consules Aequos populantur,

Liv. 3, 23 fin. —

Form populo (in Cicero only in part. perf. pass.): patriam populavit meam, Pac. ap. Non. 39, 32: agrum populare coeperunt, Quadrig. ib. 471, 20:

litora vestra Vi populat,

Verg. A. 12, 263:

Penates,

id. ib. 1, 527. —In pass.:

urbem Romanam deūm irā morbo populari,

Liv. 3, 6; 3, 3 fin.:

populata vexataque provincia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 122; cf.:

Siculi nunc populati atque vexati,

id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:

arva Marte populata nostro,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 23:

populatis messibus,

Plin. 8, 55, 81.—

Transf., in gen., to destroy, ruin, spoil (mostly poet. and in the active form), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 395 P.:

populatque ingentem farris acervum Curculio,

Verg. G. 1, 185:

capillos,

Ov. M. 2, 319:

feris populandas tradere gentes,

id. ib. 1, 249:

populata tempora raptis Auribus,

mutilated, deprived of, Verg. A. 6, 496:

populatum exspuit hamum,

robbed of the bait, Ov. Hal. 36.—In a deponent form:

quisque suum populatus iter,

Verg. A. 12, 525:

iter,

Sil. 3, 445:

formam populabitur aetas,

Ov. Med. Fac. 45:

(ventus in Aetnā) Putria multivagis populatur flatibus antra,

lays waste, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 176.

praedor, ātus, 1 (active collat. form, v. infra fin.), v. n. and a. [2. praedo].

Neutr., to make booty, to plunder, spoil, rob (in war and otherwise; class.;

syn.: spolio, diripio): spes rapiendi atque praedandi,

Cic. Phil. 4, 4, 9:

licentia praedandi,

Liv. 22, 3:

praedantes milites,

Caes. B. G. 7, 46 fin.:

ex hereditate,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 18, § 45; 2, 3, 3, § 6; 2, 3, 20, § 51:

praedatum exire,

Liv. 4, 55:

necessitate inpositā ex alieno praedandi,

id. 5, 5, 3:

ex alienis fortunis,

id. 6, 41, 11:

ex necessitate alicujus,

Lact. 6, 18, 8:

ex agris finitimorum praedari,

Just. 23, 1, 10:

classis pluribus locis praedata,

Tac. Agr. 29:

de aratorum bonis praedari,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 78, § 182:

praedari in re frumentariā et in bonis aratorum,

id. ib. 2, 3, 62, § 146;

2, 3, 88, § 204: in bonis alienis,

id. ib. 2, 2, 19, §

46: omnibus in rebus,

upon every opportunity, id. ib. 2, 1, 50, §

130: in insulis cultorum egentibus,

Liv. 22, 31, 3:

ex alterius inscientiā praedari,

to make use of another's ignorance to defraud him, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 72:

cum apud tuos Mamertinos inveniare improbissimā ratione esse praedatus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 3.—

Transf.: praedātus, a, um, that has made booty; hence, well furnished with booty (Plautinian):

bene ego ab hoc praedatus ibo,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 39; id. Rud. 5, 2, 29; id. Pers. 4, 4, 115.—

Act., to plunder, pillage, rob any thing (rare before the Aug. period).

Lit.:

pastorum stabula,

Cic. Sest. 5, 13 Halm N. cr.; B. and K.;

dub. (al. praeclara cepisset): dum socios magis quam hostes praedatur,

Tac. A. 12, 49:

arces Cecropis,

Val. Fl. 5, 647:

maria,

Lact. 5, 9 med.; 7, 17, 9:

bona vivorum et mortuorum,

Suet. Dom. 12 (but cf. Roth ad loc.):

Hylam Nympha praedata,

Petr. 83.—

Transf., to take or catch animals, birds, etc.:

alia dentibus praedantur, alia unguibus,

Plin. 10, 71, 91, § 196:

ovem,

Ov. A. A. 3, 419:

pisces calamo praedabor,

Prop. 4 (5), 2, 37.—

Trop., to rob, ravish, take ( poet.):

amores alicujus,

to rob one of his mistress, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 59; cf.:

quae me nuper praedata puella est,

has caught me, id. Am. 1, 3, 1:

singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 55:

dapes,

to consume, Val. Fl. 4, 429.

► Act. collat. form praedo, āre:

praedavit omnes filios Tharsis,

Vulg. Jud. 2, 13; 16; Prisc. p. 799 P.—Hence, prae-dor, āri, in a pass. signif. (ante- and post-class.):

mihi istaec videtur praeda praedatum irier,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 16:

terra direptione praedabitur,

Vulg. Isa. 24, 3:

pecuniae praedatae,

Gell. 4, 18, 12.—As subst.: praedātum, i, n., that which has been obtained by plunder, booty, Vop. Prob. 8, 3.