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pŏpŭlor , ātus, 1. v. dep., and pŏpŭlo , āre, v. a. 1. populus; prop. to spread or pour out in a multitude over a region; hence, transf. to the result,
I.to lay waste, ravage, devastate, desolate; to spoil, plunder, pillage (class.; syn.: vasto, vexo, diripio).
I. Lit.
(α). Form populor: Romanus exercitus insulam integram urit, populatur, vastat, Naev. ap. Non. 90, 29: “noctu populabatur agros,Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: “Remorum agros,Caes. B. G. 5, 56: “arva ferro populatur et igni,Luc. 2, 445; so, “omnia igni ferroque populatus,Flor. 2, 17, 16: “consules Aequos populantur,Liv. 3, 23 fin.
(β). Form populo (in Cicero only in part. perf. pass.): patriam populavit meam, Pac. ap. Non. 39, 32: agrum populare coeperunt, Quadrig. ib. 471, 20: “litora vestra Vi populat,Verg. A. 12, 263: “Penates,id. ib. 1, 527. —In pass.: “urbem Romanam deūm irā morbo populari,Liv. 3, 6; 3, 3 fin.: “populata vexataque provincia,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 122; cf.: “Siculi nunc populati atque vexati,id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2: “arva Marte populata nostro,Hor. C. 3, 5, 23: “populatis messibus,Plin. 8, 55, 81.—
II. Transf., in gen., to destroy, ruin, spoil (mostly poet. and in the active form), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 395 P.: “populatque ingentem farris acervum Curculio,Verg. G. 1, 185: “capillos,Ov. M. 2, 319: “feris populandas tradere gentes,id. ib. 1, 249: “populata tempora raptis Auribus,mutilated, deprived of, Verg. A. 6, 496: “populatum exspuit hamum,robbed of the bait, Ov. Hal. 36.—In a deponent form: “quisque suum populatus iter,Verg. A. 12, 525: “iter,Sil. 3, 445: “formam populabitur aetas,Ov. Med. Fac. 45: “(ventus in Aetnā) Putria multivagis populatur flatibus antra,lays waste, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 176.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.56
    • Cicero, Divinatio against Q. Caecilius, 1.2
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.122
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 23
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 6
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.319
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.496
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.263
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.525
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.185
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.249
    • Lucan, Civil War, 2.445
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.55
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 3
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.10
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