Pópulo, pópulas, pen. cor. populâre. Pacunius. To get the fauour of the people. Pópulo, pópulas: vel pópulor, populâris, populári. Vir. Ci. To waste or destroy a countrey: to robbe and spoile.Hic olim ignaros luctus populaui: Achiuos. Propert. Agros populari.Cic.Cura populatur artus. Sen. The heate of loue cousumeth his flesh.Formam populabitur ætas.Ouid.Age wil destroy beautie.Ferro populari & igni, Lucan.To spoile and destroye with sworde and fire.Mœnia populari deiecto vallo.Ouid.Lapis durus pulchra populatur ora. Seneca. The hard stone marreth or destroyeth the faire face.Ferro populare penates.Virg.Vi populare.Virg.Populatus vrbes cædibus. Sta. That hath lacked cities with great murder.
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.(a). 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. —(b). 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, 3fin.: 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
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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,