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                    "description": "vāpŭlo, āvi, 1\n* V. neutral pass. [perh. root vap-; cf. vappo; prop. to wriggle, flutter; hence], to get a cudgelling or flogging, to be flogged.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* Trop., to be lashed, attacked: omnium sermonibus vapulare,Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1.\n* Of troops, like our to be beaten, i. e. to be conquered: septimam legionem vapulasse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4.\n* Of property, to be dissipated, squandered: vapulat peculium,Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 10: multa,Sen. Q. N. 6, 7, 6.\n* In gen., of inanim. things, to be struck, beaten: (olea) quae vapulavit macescit,Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 1: turris pluvio,Sen. Agam. 93.\n* To be in trouble, to be afflicted: sub Veneris regno vapulo, non sub Jovis,Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 15."
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