Lewis Short
dē-porto, āvi, ātum, 1 (
* Arch. inf. pass. deportarier, Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 85), v. a., to carry or convey down; to carry off, to convey away (freq. and good prose).
* In gen.: de fundo tigna et oleam ne deportato,Cato R. R. 144, 3: arma Brundisium jumentis, Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 A. fin.: frumentum in castra. Caes. B. C. 1, 60, 3: ossa ejus in Cappadociam ad matrem,Nep. Eum. 13 fin.: corpus Augusti Romam,Suet. Claud. 6; cf. id. Aug. 100: aliquem per vicos,id. ib. 78 fin. et saep.: ut te Leucadem deportaret, Cic. Fam. 16, 5: naves partem exercitus eo deportaverant,Caes. B. C. 1, 27; so of transporting by water,id. B. G. 3, 12, 3; Liv. 43, 6; Suet. Tib. 18: quos (serpentes) flumina deportant,Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 136: lucem,id. 2, 103, 106, § 234: arcam,Vulg. 1 Par. 15, 25.
* In partic. as a t. t.
* To bring or fetch home any thing from the provinces: victorem exercitum,Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 21; so Liv. 26, 21; 30, 40 fin. al.: Tertia tua, quam tu tecum deportaras,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16: cum aliud nihil ex tanta praeda domum suam deportavisset,id. Rep. 1, 14.
* Transf., of abstract objects, to carry away, i. e. to get, acquire: tertium triumphum,Cic. Off. 1, 22 fin.; cf. lauream,Tac. A. 2, 26 fin.; and: gloriam ex illis gentibus,Curt. 9, 10: si nihil aliud de hac provincia nisi illius benevolentiam deportassem,Cic. Att. 6, 1, 7: te (sc. Atticum) non cognomen solum Athenis deportasse, sed humanitatem et prudentiam intellego,id. de Sen. 1: nihil ex ista provincia potes, quod jucundius sit, deportare,id. Fam. 7, 15 fin.: ex Asia deportatum flagitium ac dedecus,id. Mur. 5, 12.
* To banish, transport, for life (attended with loss of citizenship and testatorship, both of which the relegatus retained, v. Dig. 48, 22, 7, § 3; id. 28, 1, 8—mostly post-Aug.— for syn. also cf.: exsilio afficio or multo, in exsilium pello or eicio, expello, exigo): inter poenas est etiam insulae deportatio, quae poena adimit civitatem Romanam, etc.,Dig. 48, 22, 7, § 2 sq.: Vibius Serenus in insulam Amorgum deportatur,Tac. A. 4, 13: ut liberti quoque Italia deportarentur,id. ib. 14, 45: in reis deportatis,Quint. 5, 2, 1.
* Transf.: non hoc publicitus scelus hinc deportarier In solas terras?Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 85.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary