I.a laying waste, desolating, ravaging, devastation: “omnium,” Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18: “domuum,” Sall. Or. ad Caes. 1, 4: “villarum,” Tac. H. 4, 34: “agri,” Liv. 7, 15 11; 10, 4, 7; Quint. 8, 4, 14: Italiam a vastatione defendere, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15, 4.—Plur: “intactum vastationibus regnum,” Tac. A. 15, 27.
vastātĭo , ōnis, f. id.,