(v. dep.v. a.) : pŏpŭlor, ātus, 1. v. dep., and pŏpŭlo, āre, v. a.1. populus; prop. to spread or pour out in a multitude over a region; hence, transf. to the result
* To lay waste, ravage, devastate, desolate; to spoil, plunder, pillage (class.; syn.: vasto, vexo, diripio).
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* Form populor: Romanus exercitus insulam integram urit, populatur, vastat, Naev. ap. Non. 90, 29: noctu populabatur agros,Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: Remorum agros,Caes. B. G. 5, 56: arva ferro populatur et igni,Luc. 2, 445; so, omnia igni ferroque populatus,Flor. 2, 17, 16: consules Aequos populantur,Liv. 3, 23 fin.
* Transf., in gen., to destroy, ruin, spoil (mostly poet. and in the active form), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 395 P.: populatque ingentem farris acervum Curculio,Verg. G. 1, 185: capillos,Ov. M. 2, 319: feris populandas tradere gentes,id. ib. 1, 249: populata tempora raptis Auribus,mutilated, deprived of,Verg. A. 6, 496: populatum exspuit hamum,robbed of the bait,Ov. Hal. 36.—In a deponent form: quisque suum populatus iter,Verg. A. 12, 525: iter,Sil. 3, 445: formam populabitur aetas,Ov. Med. Fac. 45: (ventus in Aetnā) Putria multivagis populatur flatibus antra,lays waste,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 176.

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