aevo+desolata

dē-sōlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to leave alone, to forsake, abandon, desert (not anteAug., perh. first used by Verg.; most freq. in the part. perf.).

Verb finit.:

desolavimus agros,

Verg. A. 11, 367:

agros profugiendo,

Col. 1, 3, 11:

urbes,

Stat. Th. 6, 917:

locum,

Vulg. Psa. 78, 7.—

Part. perf., forsaken, deserted, left alone:

desolatae terrae,

Ov. M. 1, 349; cf.:

tecta domorum,

Stat. Th. 1, 653:

manipli,

Verg. A. 11, 870.—So of persons, Stat. S. 2, 1, 233; Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3; Tac. A. 1, 30; 16, 30 fin.; Just. 1, 7, 3 (dub.); cf. with abl., robbed, deprived of:

desolatus servilibus ministeriis,

Tac. A. 12, 26; Plin. 10, 12, 16, § 34:

agmen magistro,

Stat. Th. 9, 672:

aevo jam desolata senectus,

i. e. enfeebled by age, Petr. 124; 286. —With gen.:

virorum gentes,

Sil. 8, 590.