Lewis Short
praedo (noun M) : praeda
* One that makes booty, a plunderer, robber (syn.: latro, raptor).
* Lit.: ita in aedibus sunt fures, praedo in proximo'st,Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 105: hostes sunt, quibus bellum publice populus Romanus decrevit, vel ipsi populo Romano. Ceteri latrunculi vel praedones appellantur,Dig. 49, 15, 24; Auct. Her. 2, 21, 33: urbes piratis praedonibusque patefactae,Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 13: ut praedones solent,id. ib. 2, 4, 9, § 21: nefarius,id. de Or. 3, 1, 3: praedones latronesque,Caes. B. C. 3, 110: maritimus,a pirate,Nep. Them. 2, 3; so alone: capiunt praedones navem illam,Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 40: perfidus, alta petens, abductā virgine, praedo,Verg. A. 7, 362: praedo nuptiarum mearum, i. e. the murderer of my husband,App. M. 8, p. 207, 17: at neque Persephone digna est praedone marito, i. e. of Pluto, who had stolen her, Ov. F. 4, 591: alibi praedo, alibi praedae vindex, cadit,Liv. 38, 40.
* Transf., of drones, Col. 9, 15; of the hawk,Mart. 14, 116; of persons who turn to their own use the property of others,Dig. 5, 3, 25; 9, 4, 13.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary