latrocinor

lā̆trōcĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [2. latro].

I.

To perform military service for pay, to be a hired soldier (ante-class.):

ibit aliquo Latrocinatum,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 198; id. Mil. 2, 6, 19: qui regi latrocinatus decem annos Demetrio, id. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 52 Müll.—

II.

To practise freebooting, robbery, or highway-robbery, to rob on the highway:

Catilina latrocinantem se interfici mallet, quam exsulem vivere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi impune sui posteri latrocinarentur,

id. Mil. 7, 17:

vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15.— To commit piracy:

maritimi, alteri mercandi causa, alteri latrocinandi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9.—

B.

Transf.

* 1.

Of a fish preying upon others, to hunt, seize:

pastinaca latrocinatur ex occulto,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 144.—

* 2.

Of a physician who dissects a body:

mortui praecordia et viscus omne in conspectum,

Cels. 1 praef. —Hence. lā̆trōcĭnanter, adv., like a robber, Aug. Ep. 35, 3.