(verb) : dē-spŏlĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, (also
* Dep.: quos despoliatur, with depopulatur, Afran. ap. Non. 480, 13), to rob, plunder, despoil (rare, but good prose).—Constr., aliquem (aliquid) aliqua re: ne se armis despoliaret, * Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4: me despoliat,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 53; cf. id. Cas. 4, 4, 4; Ter. And. 4, 5, 21; Cic. Att. 7, 9: Dianae templum,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 21 fin.: digitos suos,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 57: despoliari triumpho,Liv. 45, 36.

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