The corpus record — Latin

despolio

despolio · v. a

to rob, plunder, despoil

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Satyricon 7 · 2.3/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-spŏlĭo — Lewis & Short

dē-spŏlĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (also

I dep.: quos despoliatur, with depopulatur, Afran. ap. Non. 480, 13), to rob, plunder, despoil (rare, but good prose).—Constr., aliquem (aliquid) aliqua re: ne se armis despoliaret, * Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4: me despoliat, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 53; cf. id. Cas. 4, 4, 4; Ter. And. 4, 5, 21; Cic. Att. 7, 9: Dianae templum, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 21 fin.: digitos suos, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 57: despoliari triumpho, Liv. 45, 36.

Where it came from

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