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Morphology Lemmata rapax (external link: rapax )Forms: rapacem (data provider: perseus), rapaces (data provider: perseus), rapacesque (data provider: perseus), rapaci (data provider: perseus), rapacibus (data provider: perseus), rapacior (data provider: perseus), rapacis (data provider: perseus), rapacissima (data provider: perseus), rapacissimam (data provider: perseus), rapacissimi (data provider: perseus), rapacissimo (data provider: perseus), rapacissimum (data provider: perseus), rapacius (data provider: perseus), rapax (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary rapax răpax, ācis, adj. [rapio], grasping , greedy of plunder , rapacious.
I. Lit. (class.; syn. furax): vos rapaces, vos praedones , Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 26 ; id. Pers. 3, 3, 6 : olim furunculus, nunc vero etiam rapax , Cic. Pis. 27, 66 ; so with fur , id. Verr. 2, 3, 2, 4 : inopiā rapax , Suet. Dom. 3 : procuratorum rapacissimum quemque , id. Vesp. 16 ; cf. Tac. H. 1, 20 : Cinara , i. e. eager for presents , Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 33 ; so Tib. 1, 5, 59 ; 2, 4, 25 : cervi, luporum praeda rapacium , Hor. C. 4, 4, 50 ; id. Epod. 16, 20 ; cf. Harpyiae , id. S. 2, 2, 40 .— As subst. : răpax, ācis, comm. , a beast of prey , Plin. 11, 45, 101, 247 .—
2. Of things, rapacious , ravenous (mostly poet. ): falces rapaces , Lucr. 3, 650 : ventus , Ov. A. A. 1, 388 : ignis , id. M. 8, 837 : mors , Tib. 1, 3, 65 ; cf. Orcus , Hor. C. 2, 18, 30 : fortuna , id. ib. 1, 34, 14 : dentes , fangs , tusks , Veg. 6, 1, 1 .—With gen. : chryselectrum rapacissimum ignium , very ignitible , Plin. 37, 3, 12, 51 .—As a poet. epithet of floods: amnes , Lucr. 5, 341 : fluvii , id. 1, 17 : unda, Cic. poët. N. D. 3, 10, 24: undae , Ov. M. 8, 550 : Danubius , id. ad Liv. 397 .— Hence, transf., an appellation of the twenty-first legion and the soldiers composing it (qs. that sweeps every thing before it ), Tac. H. 2, 43 ; 100 ; 3, 14 ; 18; 22.—
II. Trop. (rare), with gen. , grasping , seizing eagerly or quickly , greedy , avaricious : nihil est rapacius quam natura , Cic. Lael. 14, 50 : rapacia virtutis ingenia , Sen. Ep. 95, 36 : nostri omnium utilitatum et virtutum rapacissimi , Plin. 25, 2, 2, 4 .
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