pillage (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. răpīna (most gen. term)2. dīreptio (ransacking and sacking of a place)3. expr. by verb • pillage (subs.): 1. răpīna (most gen. term): their thoughts are of nothing but p., nil cogitant nisi rapinas, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10: to lay waste by fire and p., incendiis, rapinis vastare, Hirt. B. G. 8, 25: Caes. 2. dīreptio (ransacking and sacking of a place): a city abandoned to p. and fire, urbs relicta direptioni et incendiis, Cic. Fam. 4, 1, med. 3. expr. by verb: the hope of p., praedandi spes, id. Ph. 4, 4, 9: to allow soldiers the p. of a town, *oppidum militibus diripiendum relinquere, concedere: for syn. v. pillage, subs. See also pillaging (subs.); plunder. Phr.: to live by p., *ex praeda vivere.