despoliant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despolio, despoliare, despoliavi, despoliatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rob/plunder; despoil (of); strip, deprive of clothing/covering; (for flogging);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...consulit, blandiloquentulus, harpago, mendax, 239a cuppes, avarus, elegans, despoliator, latebricolarum hominum corruptor, 240a [blandus] inops celatum indagator..."Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...superet tuomque imperium: uir te uestiat, tu uirum despolies. Noctuque et diu ut uiro subdola sis, Opsecro memento..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...hora tibi qua non me, Phylli, furentem despolies: tanta calliditate rapis. Nunc plorat speculo fallax ancilla relicto, gemma..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...facili sed etiam hilari uia pecuniam faciant gaudentesque despolient." "Te, inquit, longiorem Fido Annaeo iurabo et Apollonio pycte..."