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depeculor

to despoil, pillage, rifle, plunder, embezzle

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Where it lives

In C. Verrem 4 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

dē-pĕcūlor — Lewis & Short

dē-pĕcūlor, ātus (and old

I Act. fut. infin. depeculassere, Lucil. ap. Non. 97, 9; cf. Neue, Form. 2, 421, and v. infra), 1, v. dep. a. [peculium], to despoil, pillage, rifle, plunder, embezzle (very rare).

I Prop.: Apollonium omni argento spoliasti ac depeculatus es, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17.—

II Trop.: laudem honoremque alicujus, i. e. to detract from, diminish, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 36.!*? In pass. signif.: ubi senatus intellexit populum depeculari (a)posulou=sqai), Cael. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.: me impune irrisum esse habitum, depeculatum eis, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 83 (dub. v. depeculatus).

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