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greedy for presents

  • 1 rapāx

        rapāx ācis, adj. with comp. and sup.    [RAP-], tearing, furious, violent: ventus, O.: unda.—Fig., grasping, greedy, rapacious, insatiable: olim furunculus, nunc vero etiam rapax: Cinara, i. e. greedy for presents, H.: lupi, H.: Orcus, H.: domina, Tb.: nihil est rapacius quam natura.
    * * *
    (gen.), rapacis ADJ
    grasping, rapacious

    Latin-English dictionary > rapāx

  • 2 rapax

    răpax, ācis, adj. [rapio], grasping, greedy of plunder, rapacious.
    I.
    Lit. (class.;

    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.—
    2.
    Of things, rapacious, ravenous (mostly poet.):

    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.—
    II.
    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.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rapax

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