ravage (v.) Copy link Outline 1. vasto, 12. pōpŭlor, less freq. pōpŭlo (populor most common) (not implying such wholesale destruction as preced.)3. răpio, dīrĭpio, 34. vexo, 1 (to treat with all outrage, pillage and ransack) • ravage (v.): 1. vasto, 1: to r. lands with fire and sword, agros ferro ignique v., Liv. 3, 68: also absol., for the purpose of r.ing, vastandi causa, Caes. B. G. 5, 19. Comps. (1) ēvasto, 1 (to destroy by r.ing): Liv. 8, 37 (Samnium evastatum). (2). pervasto, 1 (to r. greatly): Liv. 8, 37. 2. pōpŭlor, less freq. pōpŭlo (populor most common) (not implying such wholesale destruction as preced.): the weevil r.s a huge heap of grain, populat (poet.) ingentem farris acervum curculio, Virg. G. 1, 185: he r.d the fields by night, noctu populabatur agros, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: provinces r.d, populatae provinciae, Cic. Caec. 3, 7. The strengthened part. form occurs, populabundus, engaged in ravaging: Liv. 1, 15. Comp. (1) dēpopulor, 1 (strengthened from simple verb): Liv. 33, 22: Caes. B. G. 7, 77 (depopulata Gallia). (2) perpopulor, 1 (to r. greatly): Liv. 22, 9 (perpopulato agro): ib. 34, 28 (perpopulatus omnia loca). (N.B.--Neither the simple verb nor the comps. should be used pass. except in p. part.) 3. răpio, dīrĭpio, 3: v. to pillage, plunder. 4. vexo, 1 (to treat with all outrage, pillage and ransack): v. to ransack (I., 3).