I.to pluck, pull, or tear in pieces, to rend (rare).
I. Prop.: “epistulas,” Cic. Att. 10, 12, 3: “librum,” Liv. 38, 55, 11; cf. Gell. 4, 18, 12; cf. “litteras,” Suet. Ner. 47: “folia coronae concerpta,” Plin. 21, 3, 9, § 13: “linteolum,” lint, id. 28, 15, 61, § 216; 31, 9, 45, § 100.— *
II. Trop. (acc. to carpo, II. B. b. α), to abuse, revile, censure: Curionem ferventissime, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5.