SPOIL Copy link • SPOIL 1. v. To plunder, praedari: praedam or praedas facere, or (of living creatures) agere: rapere: rapinas facere. To devastate, Vid: To corrupt, destroy: Transitively, corrumpere: depravare: perdere: pervertere: vitiare. The dinner is spoiled, corrumpitur cena (Plaut.), prandium (Terentianus): the fish are spoiled, pisces corrumpuntur (Plaut.): to spoil fruit, fruges perdere (Cic.): to spoil corn, frumentum corrumpere (Caes.): to spoil one’s pleasures, gaudium alicujus contaminare (Ter., Eun., 3, 5, 4), acerbare (Statius, Theb., 12, 75); gaudium alicujus turbare; voluptas alicujus corrumpitur aliqua re (†): to see one’s character, depravare, corrumpere mores (Cic.): to spoil a child, indulgentia puerum depravare or corrumpere; deliciis solvere; molli illa educatione, quam indulgentiam vocamus, nervos omnes mentis et corporis frangere (Quint.): to be spoiled by a luxurious and indolent life, luxu atque inertia corrumpi (Sall.): to be spoiled (of children, etc.), remollescere, effeminari. Intransitively, corrumpi: depravari: perdi. 2. s. praeda: raptum. Spoils, plur., spolia, -orum, neuter; exuviae (the former, arms, standards, and all trophies taken from an enemy; the latter, only arms taken off the person); spolia opima, -orum, neuter (arms taken from a general); manubiae (money obtained from the spoils; then the general’s share of them; Vid: commentators on Nep., Cim., 2, 5); sectio (booty divided into portions; then the share which fell to the treasury; Vid: commentators on Caes., B.C., 2, 23; Ernesti, Clav., Cic., s., v.).