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1 rapax
I.Lit. (class.;2.syn. furax): vos rapaces, vos praedones,
Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 26; id. Pers. 3, 3, 6:olim furunculus, nunc vero etiam rapax,
Cic. Pis. 27, 66; so with fur, id. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 4:inopiā rapax,
Suet. Dom. 3:procuratorum rapacissimum quemque,
id. Vesp. 16; cf. Tac. H. 1, 20:Cinara,
i. e. eager for presents, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 33; so Tib. 1, 5, 59; 2, 4, 25:cervi, luporum praeda rapacium,
Hor. C. 4, 4, 50; id. Epod. 16, 20; cf.Harpyiae,
id. S. 2, 2, 40.— As subst.: răpax, ācis, comm., a beast of prey, Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 247.—Of things, rapacious, ravenous (mostly poet.):II.falces rapaces,
Lucr. 3, 650:ventus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 388:ignis,
id. M. 8, 837:mors,
Tib. 1, 3, 65; cf.Orcus,
Hor. C. 2, 18, 30:fortuna,
id. ib. 1, 34, 14:dentes,
fangs, tusks, Veg. 6, 1, 1.—With gen.:chryselectrum rapacissimum ignium,
very ignitible, Plin. 37, 3, 12, § 51.—As a poet. epithet of floods:amnes,
Lucr. 5, 341:fluvii,
id. 1, 17:unda, Cic. poët. N. D. 3, 10, 24: undae,
Ov. M. 8, 550:Danubius,
id. ad Liv. 397.— Hence, transf., an appellation of the twenty-first legion and the soldiers composing it (qs. that sweeps every thing before it), Tac. H. 2, 43; 100; 3, 14; 18; 22.—Trop. (rare), with gen., grasping, seizing eagerly or quickly, greedy, avaricious:nihil est rapacius quam natura,
Cic. Lael. 14, 50:rapacia virtutis ingenia,
Sen. Ep. 95, 36:nostri omnium utilitatum et virtutum rapacissimi,
Plin. 25, 2, 2, § 4.
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