vāpŭlo — Lewis & Short
vāpŭlo, āvi, 1,
I v. neutral pass. [perh. root vap-; cf. vappo; prop. to wriggle, flutter; hence], to get a cudgelling or flogging, to be flogged.
I Lit.:
ego vapulando, ille verberando usque ambo defessi sumus,Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 5;
so (opp. verberare),Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 178:
vapulo ego invitus,id. Cas. 5, 3, 15: ergo istoc magis, Quia vaniloquus, vapulabis, id. Am. 1, 1, 223:
cum corpus vapulet,Lucr. 4, 936:
non ego, sed tenuis vapulat umbra mea,Prop. 3, 3 (2, 12), 20:
qui illum viderant ab illo flagris vapulantem,Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 15, 2:
testis in reum rogatus, an ab reo fustibus vapulasset,Quint. 9, 2, 12; 1, 3, 16:
saepe territus quasi vapulaturus,Dig. 47, 10, 15:
coctum ego, non vapulatum dudum conductus fui,Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 9.—
2 Vapula, vapulet, as an opprobrious expression, you be flogged! he be flogged! like the vulg. Engl., you be hanged! he be hanged! nunc profecto vapula ob mendacium, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 214; id. As. 2, 4, 72; id. Truc. 5, 53:
vapulet! Ne sibi me credat supplicem fore!id. Pers. 2, 3, 17:
vapulare te vehementer jubeo,id. Curc. 4, 4, 12.—Hence, prov.: vapula Papiria, of doubtful signif.; v. Fest. p. 372 Müll. —
B Transf.
1 Of troops, like our to be beaten, i. e. to be conquered: septimam legionem vapulasse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4.—
2 Of property, to be dissipated, squandered:
vapulat peculium,Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 10:
multa,Sen. Q. N. 6, 7, 6.—
3 In gen., of inanim. things, to be struck, beaten:
(olea) quae vapulavit macescit,Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 1:
turris pluvio,Sen. Agam. 93.—
II Trop., to be lashed, attacked:
omnium sermonibus vapulare,Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1.—
B To be in trouble, to be afflicted:
sub Veneris regno vapulo, non sub Jovis,Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 15.