(verb) : răpĭo, pŭi, ptum, 3 (old
* Perf. subj. rapsit, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; part. perf. fem. ex raptabus, Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), root ἁρπ; Gr. ἅρπη, a bird of prey, ἁρπαγή, ἁρπάζω; Lat. rapidus, rapax, rapina, etc.; cf. Sanscr. lup-, lumpāmi, rumpo; Gr. λῦπή, to seize and carry off, to snatch, tear, drag, draw, or hurry away, = violenter sive celeriter capio (freq. and class.; in Caes. not at all, and in Cic. mostly in the trop. signif.; cf.: ago, fero, traho, capio, sumo).
* Lit.
* In gen., Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 15; 30; 31: quo rapitis me? quo fertis me?id. Men. 5, 7, 10; cf. Verg. A. 6, 845; Ov. M. 9, 121: quo me cunque rapit tempestas?Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 15; cf. id. C. 3, 25, 1: sumasne pudenter an rapias,snatch,id. Ep. 1, 17, 45; cf. id. S. 1, 5, 76: hostes vivos rapere soleo ex acie: ex hoc nomen mihi est (sc. Harpax),Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 60: te ex lustris uxor,id. As. 5, 2, 84: volucri spe et cogitatione rapi a domo,Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 7: ab aede rapuit funale,Ov. M. 12, 247: torrem ab aris,id. ib. 12, 271: deque sinu matris ridentem . . . Learchum . . . rapit,id. ib. 4, 516 (for which, simply sinu, id. ib. 13, 450): hastam, de vulnere,id. ib. 5, 137: telum,Verg. A. 10, 486: repagula de posti,Ov. M. 5, 120: (frondes) altā rapit arbore ventus,id. ib. 3, 730: vi atque ingratis ... rapiam te domum,Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 40: aliquem sublimem domum,id. As. 5, 2, 18; cf.: sublimem,id. Mil. 5, 1; id. Men. 5, 7, 6; Ter. And. 5, 2, 20: commeatum in naves rapiunt,Liv. 41, 3: aliquem in jus,Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 21; so, in jus,id. Poen. 5, 5, 56; Hor. S. 1, 9, 77; 2, 3, 72; cf.: in jus ad regem,Liv. 1, 26: in carcerem,Suet. Tib. 11; 61: aliquem ad cornuficem,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 156; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 37: ad praetorem,id. Aul. 4, 10, 30: ad supplicium ob facinus,Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 238: ad mortem,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 52, § 138; id. Cat. 1, 10, 27: ad tortorem,id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13: ad poenam,Suet. Claud. 10; 37; id. Vit. 14: ad consulem,Liv. 10, 20: matres, virgines, pueros ad stuprum,id. 26, 13: teneram virginem ad virum,Cat. 61, 3 (cf.: rapi simulatur virgo ex gremio matris, aut, si ea non est, ex proximā necessitudine, cum ad virum traditur, quod videlicet ea res feliciter Romulo cessit,Fest. p. 289 Müll.): illum (sc. lembum) in praeceps prono rapit alveus amni,Verg. G. 1, 203: nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divum rapiam,drag into open day,Hor. C. 1, 18, 13. — Poet.: Nasonis carmina rapti,i. e. torn from his home, borne far away,Ov. P. 4, 16, 1; cf. id. H. 13, 9; Stat. S. 3, 5, 6.
* Transf. (poet.), of any action or motion which resembles seizing, snatching, etc.: flammanm,to catch quickly,Verg. A. 1, 176; Ov. M. 3, 374; cf.: incendia,id. ib. 15, 350: nigrum colorem, to take or assume quickly, id. ib. 7, 289; cf.: vim monstri,id. ib. 4, 744; and v. III.: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populos,leads hastily on,Verg. A. 7, 725; cf. id. ib. 10, 178: rapiuntque ruuntque; Litora deseruere, take hold, seize in haste (the cables, etc.), id. ib. 4, 581; cf.: scalas, Auct. B. Alex. 20, 4.—Of the gliding movement of a serpent nec rapit immensos orbes per humum,sweeps along,Verg. G. 2, 153: pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit,i. e. range quickly through,Verg. A. 6, 8 Heyne; cf.: acrior et campum sonipes rapit,Stat. Th. 5, 3.
* Trop.
* In partic.
* To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, etc. (very freq.; cf. praedor),Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 11: erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62: tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranm ab regibus,id. Rep. 1, 44, 68: virgines rapi jussit ... quae raptae erant, etc.,id. ib. 2, 7, 12; 2, 8, 14; so, virgines,to carry off, abduct,Sall. C. 51, 9; Liv. 1, 9; Quint. 7, 7, 3; 9, 2, 70; Hor. C. 2, 4, 8; Ov. M. 12, 225; id. A. A. 1, 680: raptus a dis Ganymedes,Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65: ab Idā,Hor. C. 3, 20, 16: omne sacrum rapiente dextrā,id. ib. 3, 3, 52: alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama,pillage and plunder,Verg. A. 2, 374 (the Homeric ἄγουσι και φέρουσι; for which, in prose, ferre et agere; v. ago); cf.: rapturus moenia Romae,Luc. 3, 99: Theumeson,to seize by force,Stat. Th. 4, 370: Armeniam,to plunder, lay waste,Tac. A. 13, 6: Karthaginem,Sil. 15, 401: urbem,Stat. Th. 7, 599: raptas ad litora vertere praedas,Verg. A. 1, 528.— Absol.: rapio propalam,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 10: ut Spartae, rapere ubi pueri et clepere discunt,Cic. Rep. 4, 5, 11 (Non. 20, 14): agunt, rapiunt, tenent,id. Rep. 3, 33, 45 Mos.; cf. along with trahere,Sall. C. 11, 4; id. J. 41, 5; with congerere, auferre,Mart. 8, 44, 9.— With the idea of rapidity predominating: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, to conquer rapidly (= raptim capere), Liv. 6, 23, 5 Drak.; so, castra,Flor. 3, 20, 4; 4, 12, 34: Bithyniam,id. 3, 5, 6: Hispaniam,id. 2, 17, 6: arces,Luc. 6, 14.— Part. perf. subst.
* Rapta, ae, f., the ravished one, the seduced: gratus raptae raptor fuit,Ov. A. A. 1, 680; id. H. 5, 97; 13, 55; 16, 339; id. F. 4, 607.
* To cut off, mutilate (poet.): caput,Sil. 15, 807: ora gladio,id. 7, 704: rapuit non dente ferarum,Luc. 10, 517.
* To carry off suddenly or prematurely by death, to snatch away (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes,Hor. C. 2, 13, 20; so id. ib. 2, 17, 5; 4, 2, 21; id. Ep. 1, 14, 7; Verg. A. 6, 428; Ov. P. 4, 11, 5; Stat. S. 2, 1, 208; 5, 3, 16; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 46; Suet. Calig. 7; Just. 2, 2, 13 (but Liv. 3, 50, 8: fato erepta, v. Drak.)— Absol.: et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis,i. e. hurries on,Verg. G. 3, 68: RAPTA EST = obiit,Inscr. Orell. 4475.
* In gen., to snatch, force, or hurry away: fertur quasi torrens oratio, quamvis multa cujusquemodi rapiat,Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3: ipsae res verba rapiunt,carry along with them,id. ib. 3, 5, 19: aspice me quanto rapiat Fortuna periclo, carries away (the figure taken from a storm at sea), Prop. 1, 15, 3: aliquem in deteriorem viam,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 54; cf.: (comoediam) in pejorem partem,i. e. to put a bad construction upon, to misconstrue, misrepresent,Ter. Ad. prol. 3: consilium meum in contrariam partem, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2: aliquem in invidiam,Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7: opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem,id. Leg. 2, 17, 43: si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve,Verg. A. 9, 211; Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 13: cum aliqua his ampla et honesta res objecta est, totos ad se convertit et rapit,seizes upon, appropriates,id. Off. 2, 10, 37; cf.: commoda ad se,id. ib. 3, 5, 22: victoriae gloriam in se,Liv. 33, 11 fin.: almum Quae rapit hora diem,snatches away,Hor. C. 4, 7, 8; cf.: simul tecum solatia rapta,Verg. E. 9, 18: impetus rapit huc, rapit illuc,Stat. Th. 12, 794.
* In partic.
* To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing (usually in a bad sense): impetu raptus,Quint. 7, 2, 44: judicem rapere,id. 6, 2, 3; cf. id. 10, 1, 110; 12, 10, 61: praedae ac rapinarum cupiditas caeca te rapiebat,Cic. Pis. 24, 57: amentiā rapi,id. Fam. 16, 12, 2: furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa?Hor. Epod. 7, 13; cf.: in medias res auditorem,id. A. P. 149: utraque forma rapit,Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 44: quem (sc. leonem) cruenta Per medias rapit ira caedes,Hor. C. 3, 2, 12: rapit omnes ira,Sil. 14, 299: ὁρμή, quae hominem huc et illuc rapit, Cic. Off. 1, 28 fin.; cf. Verg. A. 4, 286; 8, 21: ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur,Cic. Off. 2, 11, 38: animus cupidine caecus ad inceptum scelus rapiebat,Sall. J. 25, 7: ea (cupiditas) ad oppugnandam Capuam rapit,Liv. 7, 30 et saep.—In a good sense: qui ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā omni studioque rapiantur,Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111: rapi ad opes augendas generis humani,id. Rep. 1, 2, 3. — Poet., with inf. (for ad aliquid): (mundus) rapit aetherios per carmina pandere census,Manil. 1, 12.
* To seize by violence, to snatch, steal (poet.): Hippodameam raptis nactu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. v. 398 Vahl.): oscula,Hor. C. 2, 12, 28; Tib. 1, 4, 53; 55; 1, 8, 58; cf.: Venerem incertam,Hor. S. 1, 3, 109; cf.: sed rapiat sitiens Venerem,but may eagerly seize upon,Verg. G. 3, 137: illicitas voluptates,Tac. H. 3, 41: spem adoptionis acrius in dies,id. ib. 1, 13 fin.: quo facinore dominationem raptum ierit expediam,id. A. 4, 1; cf. id. H. 2, 6.
* With the idea of rapidity or haste predominating, to snatch, seize, or lay hold of quickly, to hasten, precipitate (poet.; in prose only since the Aug. per.): vive, Ulixes, dum licet: Oculis postremum lumen radiatum rape: non dixit cape, non pete; haberet enim moram sperantis diutius sese victurum; sed rape,Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162 (from an old poet.): rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die,Hor. Epod. 13, 3; so, occasionem,Juv. 15, 39: viam,to hasten,Ov. H. 19, 74 Loers; cf. iter,Sil. 12, 471: gressus,Luc. 3, 116: cursus,id. 5, 403: letum,id. 4, 345: bellum,to wage suddenly,id. 5, 403: nefas,to hasten, precipitate,id. 10, 428: ut limis rapias, quid prima secundo Cera velit versu,may hastily note,Hor. S. 2, 5, 53 al.—In prose: raptae prope inter arma nuptiae,Liv. 30, 14, 2 Drak.: repente impetu facto transitum rapuit,Front. Strat. 1, 4, 8: inter rapienda momenta periculorum communium,Amm. 18, 7, 7 et saep.
* In late Lat., to strive for in purchasing: exemplaria litterarum certatim,Hier. Ep. 57, 2: librum totā certatim urbe,Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 23.

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