pillage (v.) Copy link Outline 1. praedor, 1 (strictly intrans.; in later authors also trans.)2. dīrĭpio, ui., reptum, 3 (only trans.)3. pŏpŭlor, 1 (to lay waste)4. compīlo, 1 (to rifle)5. spŏlio, 1 (to despoil, strip of ornaments, furniture, etc.) • pillage (v.): 1. praedor, 1 (strictly intrans.; in later authors also trans.): the prospect of plundering and p.ing, spes rapiendi praedandique, Cic. Ph. 4, 4, 9: to p. the property of the farmers, de aratorum bonis p., id. Verr. 3, 78, 182: to p. the allies rather than the enemy, socios magis quam hostes pr., Tac. A. 12, 49. Engaged in p.ing, praedabundus: Sall. Jug. 90. 2. dīrĭpio, ui., reptum, 3 (only trans.): to p. (sack) a town, oppidum d., Caes. B. C. 1, 21, fin. (Praedor is to carry off booty from a country or town, diripio, to ransack and rifle utterly, as soldiers do a city taken by storm.) 3. pŏpŭlor, 1 (to lay waste): v. to ravage, devastate. 4. compīlo, 1 (to rifle): to p. temples, templa c., Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 86. Liv. So, expīlo, 1. v. to rob. 5. spŏlio, 1 (to despoil, strip of ornaments, furniture, etc.): Cic.: Sall.
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.
PILLAGE Copy link • PILLAGE 1. s. direptio; expilatio; compilatio; spoliatio; populatio, or, more strongly, depopulatio; also by verbs; e.g., bona regia diripienda plebi sunt data (Liv., 2, 5, as pillage). 2. v. praedari: diripere: compilare: expilare: spoliare: populari: depopulari.