populator

pŏpŭlātor, ōris, m. [populor], a devastator, destroyer, ravager, spoiler, plunderer (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I.

Lit.:

agrorum,

Liv. 3, 68 fin.:

Trojae (Atrides),

Ov. M. 13, 655.— Poet., transf.:

Tuscae glandis aper,

Mart. 7, 27, 1:

Calabri arvi Sirius,

Val. Fl. 1, 683.—

II.

Trop., a destroyer, consumer:

luxus populator opum,

Claud. in Ruf. 1, 35:

civitatis,

Quint. Decl. 12, 24 fin.; Luc. 4, 92.