Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary

RAP-, to seize and carry off, snatch, tear, pluck, drag, hurry away : sublimen intro hunc rape, T.: quo fessum rapitis? V.: Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, H.: sumasne pudenter An rapias, snatch , H.: ab aede rapuit funale, O.: de volnere telum, V.: commeatum in navīs rapiunt, L.: pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit, i. e. break off boughs of trees (in collecting wood), V.: in ius, drag before a court , H.: ob facinus ad supplicium, hale : alii ad necem rapiebantur: ad stuprum matres, L.: (infantes) ab ubere rapti, V.: nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divom rapiam, drag into open day , H.: Nasonis carmina rapti, i. e. torn from his home , O.— To hurry, impel, drive, cause to hasten : Quattuor hinc rapimur raedis, H.: per aequora navem, V.: ventis per aequora, O.: missos currūs, H.: arma rapiat iuventus, snatch , V.: arma, O.: bipennem dextrā, V.: rapiuntque ruuntque, hurry and bustle , V.—With pron reflex., to make haste, hasten, hurry, fly : ocius hinc te Ni rapis, H.: se ad caedem optimi cuiusque.— To carry off by force, seize, rob, ravish, plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by storm : spes rapiendi occaecat animos: semper rapiens, semper ebrius: raptas ad litora vertere praedas, V.: rapere omnes trahere, S.: vivere latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset: virgines, to abduct , S.: Arsit Atrides Virgine raptā, H.: Omne sacrum rapiente dextrā, H.: alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama, pillage and plunder , V.: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, L.— To carry off suddenly, snatch away, destroy : improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes, H.: rapto de fratre dolens, H.: Et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis, i. e. hurries on , V.— To take, catch, assume : flammam, catch quickly , V.: nigrum colorem, O.: Virga . . . Vim rapuit monstri, imbibed , O.— To lead on hurriedly : Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populus, leads hastily on , V.: Nec rapit inmensos orbīs per humum, sweeps along , V.—Fig., to snatch away, carry along, hurry away : ipsae res verba rapiunt, carry along with them : (comoediam) in peiorem partem, i. e. misrepresent , T.: Si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve, V.: almum Quae rapit hora diem, snatches away , H.: simul tecum solacia rapta, V. — To drive, impel, carry away, precipitate, transport, ravish, captivate, overwhelm, draw irresistibly : ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā studioque rapi: semper eo tractus est, quo libido rapuit: amentiā rapi: Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa? H.: animum In partīs rapit varias, turns hurriedly , V.: ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur.— To seize by violence, snatch, steal : Hippodameam raptis nanctu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. C.: Venerem incertam, H.: sed rapiat sitiens Venerem, but may eagerly seize upon , V.— To snatch, seize quickly, hasten, precipitate : rapienda occasio, Iu.: viam, hasten , O.: ut limis rapias, quid velit, etc., may hastily note , H.: raptae prope inter arma nuptiae, L.