Depasco, depascis, depáui, pen. prod. depastum, depáscere, To eate as a beast dothe: to feede beastes in a pasture: to eate vp: to consume.Si hœdi rosidas herbas depauerint. Colu. If the kiddes shall haue eaten.Qui pecore eius depasci agros publicos dicerent.Cic. Depascere. Colum. To feede beastes in a pasture.Depascere possessionem alienam, per translationem. Cicero. To let his cattell to eate vp an other mans grasse: to feede his cattell on an other mans ground.Stylo depascere luxuriem orationis. Cice. With exercise of writing to diminish the flowing copie of wordes and sentences.
Depascor, Deponens idem quod Depasco vt, Beluæ depascuntur sata. Plin. Beastes doe eate vp corne.Febris depascitur artus.Virg.Syluas depascitur quadrupes. Tib. Doth brouse vpõ woodes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-pasco, pāvi, pastum, 3, v. a., and dē-pascor, ci, 3, v. depon., to feed down, feed off. I.Lit.A. Of the shepherd: si d. saepius voles, etc., Col. 2, 10, 31: glandem immisso pecore depasco, Dig. 10, 4, 9: saltus, Ov. F. 5, 283: luxuriem segetum, Verg. G. 1, 112.—B. Of the cattle, to feed upon, eat up, consume. (a). Form depasco: si haedi roscidas herbas depaverint, Col. 7, 5, 21; Verg. G. 4, 539.—In the part. perf.: saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti, id. E. 1, 55; segetes, Plin. 18, 17, 45, 161: altaria, poet. for that which is upon it, Verg. A. 5, 93.—(b). Form depascor: papilio ceras depascitur, Plin. 11, 19, 21, 65: miseros morsu depascitur artus (serpens), Verg. A. 2, 215; Vulg. Exod. 22, 5.—In the part. perf., Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 239; cf.: depastis juvencis, Auct. Laud. Herc. 77.—II.Trop.A.Depon. 1.To cull, select: omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, Lucr. 3, 12.—2.To prune away, remove: in summa ubertate (orationis) inest luxuries quaedam, quae stilo depascenda est, Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 96.— 3.To destroy, waste: veterem possessionem Academiae, id. Leg. 1, 21, 55; so of disease: artus depascitur arida febris, Verg. G. 3, 458; imitated by Claud. in Rufin. 1, 302; id. Idyll. 3, 11.—B. Rarely in the act. form: et potuit Latium longo depascere bello?Sil. 16, 681: in inferno positi sunt; mors depascet eos, Vulg. Psa. 48, 14 (cf. carpo, no. II. B. 2: decerpo, no. II. B. 2 al.).—The part. perf. in a pass. signif.: ipsaque diris Frons depasta modis, Sil. 6, 51: depasti flammis scopuli, id. 12, 153.