praedari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →praedor, praedari, praedatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
acquire loot (by robbery/war/depredation); obtain food by hunting/preying;; pillage, despoil; plunder, loot; take as prey/catch;
pres. infin. - Entry →praedo, praedare, praedavi, praedatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
pillage, despoil, plunder; rob/ravish/take; acquire loot (robbery/war); catch;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat. Igitur exercitu diviso partim per finitimos populos praedari placuit, partim obsideri arcem, ut obsidentibus frumentum populatores agrorum..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...anxius erat, neque post insidias Iugurthae effuso exercitu praedari; ubi frumento aut pabulo opus erat, cohortes cum omni..."
