ab-rĭpĭo — Lewis & Short
ab-rĭpĭo, pui, eptum, 3, v. a.rapio,
I to take away by violence, to drag away, to tear off or away (stronger than its synn. abduco, abigo, abstraho).
I Lit.
A In gen.:
abripite hunc intro actutum inter manus,hurry him away, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 38:
puella ex Atticā hinc abrepta,stolen, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 30; cf.:
abreptam ex eo loco virginem secum asportāsse,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 107:
de convivio in vincla atque in tenebras,id. ib. 2, 4, 10, §
24: ab complexu alicujus,Liv. 3, 57, 3:
milites vi fluminis abrepti,Caes. B. C. 1, 64; cf. Mel. 3, 5, 8; Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 170; Verg. A. 1, 108:
aliquem ad quaestionem,Cic. Clu. 33, 89; cf.:
aliquem ad humanum exitum,id. Rep. 1, 16 fin.; with acc. only:
Cererem,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111:
cives,Nep. Milt. 4, 2:
aliquid,id. Dat. 4, 2: abripere se, to run, scamper away:
ita abripuit repente sese subito,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 21; so id. Curc. 5, 1, 8.—
B Transf., of property, to dissipate, squander:
quod ille compersit miser, id illa univorsum abripiet,Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 11.—
II Trop., to carry off, remove, detach:
repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum ... abstraxit,Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145: voluntate omnes tecum fuerunt;
tempestate abreptus est unus,id. Lig. 12, 34 (the figure taken from those driven away in a storm at sea); so,
abreptus amore caedum,Sil. 5, 229; cf. id. 6, 332:
(filium) etiam si natura a parentis similitudine abriperet,i.e. made unlike him, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12.