Lewis Short
(verb) : com-pīlo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To snatch together and carry off, to plunder, pillage, rob (rare but class.).
* Prop., with acc. of person or thing robbed: aedes,Plaut. As. 2, 2, 6: fana,Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 86: si malui compilari quam venire,id. de Or. 2, 66, 268: consulem, exercitum, provinciamque,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 35: hortos,id. Phil. 3, 12, 30: templa omnibus ornamentis compilata,Liv. 43, 7, 10: totum oppidum ostiatim,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53: ne te (servi) compilent fugientes,Hor. S. 1, 1, 78: ipsum (Jovem),Phaedr. 4, 11, 2.—With acc. of thing taken: ubi vir compilet clanculum, quicquid domi'st,Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 2.
* With aliquem, to cudgel or beat soundly, App. M. 7, p. 196, 8; 9, p. 218, 7.
* Trop.: sapientiam,Cic. Mur. 11, 25: Crispini scrinia,Hor. S. 1, 1, 121.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary