depopulature
Dictionary entries
- Entry →depopulo, depopulare, depopulavi, depopulatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
sack/plunder/pillage/rob/despoil; ravage/devastate/destroy/lay waste; overgraze;
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...nimis dura dedit nobis corpora, felicem ualetudinem; non depopulatur nos casus incurrens, emetiri cuique annos suos ex commodo..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...procul Carthagine Noua expositis in terram militibus proximos depopulatur agros; inde ad urbem classem adpulit. ibi cum interdiu..." - T
Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...extollebat. Hannibal ex Hirpinis in Samnium transit, Beneuentanum depopulatur agrum, Telesiam urbem capit, inritat etiam de industria Romanum..."