populor

pŏpŭlor, ātus, 1. v. dep., and pŏpŭlo, āre, v. a. [1. populus; prop. to spread or pour out in a multitude over a region; hence, transf. to the result], to lay waste, ravage, devastate, desolate; to spoil, plunder, pillage (class.; syn.: vasto, vexo, diripio).

I.

Lit.

(α).

Form populor: Romanus exercitus insulam integram urit, populatur, vastat, Naev. ap. Non. 90, 29:

noctu populabatur agros,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33:

Remorum agros,

Caes. B. G. 5, 56:

arva ferro populatur et igni,

Luc. 2, 445; so,

omnia igni ferroque populatus,

Flor. 2, 17, 16:

consules Aequos populantur,

Liv. 3, 23 fin. —

(β).

Form populo (in Cicero only in part. perf. pass. ): patriam populavit meam, Pac. ap. Non. 39, 32: agrum populare coeperunt, Quadrig. ib. 471, 20:

litora vestra Vi populat,

Verg. A. 12, 263:

Penates,

id. ib. 1, 527. —In pass.:

urbem Romanam deūm irā morbo populari,

Liv. 3, 6; 3, 3 fin.:

populata vexataque provincia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 122; cf.:

Siculi nunc populati atque vexati,

id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:

arva Marte populata nostro,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 23:

populatis messibus,

Plin. 8, 55, 81.—

II.

Transf., in gen., to destroy, ruin, spoil (mostly poet. and in the active form), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 395 P.:

populatque ingentem farris acervum Curculio,

Verg. G. 1, 185:

capillos,

Ov. M. 2, 319:

feris populandas tradere gentes,

id. ib. 1, 249:

populata tempora raptis Auribus,

mutilated, deprived of, Verg. A. 6, 496:

populatum exspuit hamum,

robbed of the bait, Ov. Hal. 36.—In a deponent form:

quisque suum populatus iter,

Verg. A. 12, 525:

iter,

Sil. 3, 445:

formam populabitur aetas,

Ov. Med. Fac. 45:

(ventus in Aetnā) Putria multivagis populatur flatibus antra,

lays waste, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 176.