snatch from Copy link Outline 1. ērĭpio, 32. extorqueo, si, tum, 2 (to wrest away)3. āvello, velli or vulsi, vulsum, 3 • snatch from or out: 1. ērĭpio, 3: to s. a sword from its sheath, e. ensem vagina, Virg. Aen. 4, 579: to s. a brand from the fire, e. torrem ab igne, Ov. M. 8, 457: cf. evello: to s. one out of the hands of the enemy, e. aliquem e manibus hostium, Caes. B. G. 1, 53: cf. e. aliquem ex periculo (v. to rescue, save, deliver): to s. (or take) the words out of one's mouth, e. orationem alicui ex ore, Pl. Merc. 1, 2, 64: cf. primam vocem ab ore loquentis, Virg. Aen. 7, 119: v. to take from. 2. extorqueo, si, tum, 2 (to wrest away): the dagger was s.'d out of your hands, tibi sica de manibus extorta est, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 16: v. to wrest, extort, force from. 3. āvello, velli or vulsi, vulsum, 3: s.'d from the embrace of Iulus, complexu avulsus Iuli, Virg. Aen. 4, 616: thou canst not be s.'d (from me): together, ay, together will we twain go, non potes avelli! simul, ah! simul ibimus ambo, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 81. Join: to s. one from his mother's embrace, aliquem de matris complexu a. atque abstrahere, Cic. Font. 17, 46 (v. to tear away): cf. divello, revello, distraho (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. vv.: and art. to separate).