I.a devastator, destroyer, ravager, spoiler, plunderer (perh. not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “agrorum,” Liv. 3, 68 fin.: “Trojae (Atrides),” Ov. M. 13, 655.—Poet., transf.: “Tuscae glandis aper,” Mart. 7, 27, 1: “Calabri arvi Sirius,” Val. Fl. 1, 683.—
II. Trop., a destroyer, consumer: “luxus populator opum,” Claud. in Ruf. 1, 35: “civitatis,” Quint. Decl. 12, 24 fin.; Luc. 4, 92.