I.one who seizes by force, a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: praedo, direptor, praedator).
I. Lit.
(α).
With gen.: “(fluvius) rapidus raptori pueri subduxit pedem,” Plaut. Men. prol. 65: “hostium,” id. Ep. 2, 2, 115: “panis et peni,” id. Trin. 2, 1, 23: “orbis,” Tac. Agr. 30: “filiae,” id. A. 1, 58; cf. poet.: “thalami mei, i. e. uxoris,” Sen. Hippol. 627: “templi,” Just. 8, 2, 9: ferri, that draws or attracts to itself, i. e. the magnet, Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 4. —
(γ).
Absol.: “rapta et raptores tradere,” Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 51; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 9; Hor. C. 3, 20, 4; Luc. 3, 125; Mart. 8, 26, 2; Tac. H. 2, 86 al.: “ferus, i. e. lupus,” Col. 7, 12, 9: “gratus raptae raptor fuit,” ravisher, Ov. A. A. 1, 680; Hor. C. 4, 6, 2; Mart. 12, 52, 7; Quint. 9, 2, 90; 7, 8, 4: “consilium raptor vertit in fallaciam,” Phaedr. 1, 32, 5.—
