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raptor

raptor, a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

raptor , ōris, m.: a plunderer, robber; adjectively, plundering, 2.356. (rapiō)

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raptorem Noun: masculine accusative singular of raptor

See raptorem in Morpho

raptor, ōris, m. [rapio], 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 (295): panis et peni, id. Trin. 2, 1, 23 (245): 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. —
          • β Adj.: lupi raptores, robbing, plundering, * Verg. A. 2, 356; Ov. M. 10, 540.—
          • γ Absol.: rapta et raptores tradere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 51 (203); 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.—
  • II Trop.: raptores alieni honoris, Ov. M. 8, 438: numquam defuturos raptores Italicae libertatis lupos, etc., Vell. 2, 27, 2.

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