I.to snatch together and carry off, to plunder, pillage, rob (rare but class.).
I. Prop., with acc. of person or thing robbed: “aedes,” Plaut. As. 2, 2, 6: “fana,” Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 86: “si malui compilari quam venire,” id. de Or. 2, 66, 268: “consulem, exercitum, provinciamque,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 35: “hortos,” id. Phil. 3, 12, 30: “templa omnibus ornamentis compilata,” Liv. 43, 7, 10: “totum oppidum ostiatim,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53: “ne te (servi) compilent fugientes,” Hor. S. 1, 1, 78: “ipsum (Jovem),” Phaedr. 4, 11, 2.—With acc. of thing taken: “ubi vir compilet clanculum, quicquid domi'st,” Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 2.—
B. With aliquem, to cudgel or beat soundly, App. M. 7, p. 196, 8; 9, p. 218, 7.—