deartuo

dĕ-artŭo, āvi, ātum, l, v. a. [artus; cf. artuatus and artuatim]. Lit., to dismember, to rend limb by limb; hence, trop., to ruin: "quasi per artus concidere," Non. 95, 17 (only in the foll. passages):

fallaciis opes,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 14:

deartuatus sum hujus technis,

id. ib. 3, 4, 108; cf. Non. l. l.