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
- T
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...consulit, blandiloquentulus, harpago, mendax, 239a cuppes, avarus, elegans, despoliator, latebricolarum hominum corruptor, 240a [blandus] inops celatum indagator..." - T
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..."- L
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..."