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[8] Vastant cultoribus agros:abducendo cultores vastos et desertos efficiunt” Serv., rightly, as is shown by parallel instances quoted in Forc., Hirt. (?) B. G. 8. 24, “finis eius vastare civibus, aedificiis, pecore,” Stat. Theb. 3. 576, “agrosque viris annosaque vastant Oppida,” though in the former passage ‘vastant’ has its more usual sense, meaning not only to dispeople but to ravage. The construction is not altogether easy to analyze: but it seems best to take it ‘dispeople them in respect of their cultivators.’ We may comp. the constructions of “viduo” and “vacuo,” “viduus” and “vacuus” being more or less parallel to “vastus.” ‘Vastare’ of simple dispeopling occurs again Stat. Theb. 4. 297.

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