(verb) : rapto, āvi, ātum (
* Inf. pass. paragog. raptarier, Enn. Trag. 192), 1, id., to seize and carry off, to snatch, drag, or hurry away (mostly poet.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: vidi Hectorem curru quadrijugo raptarier, dragged along, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 105 (Trag. v. 129 Vahl.): imitated by Verg.: Hector raptatus bigis, A. 2, 272; and: Hectoracirca muros,id. ib. 1, 483; cf.: viscera viri Per silvas,id. ib. 8, 644: Phaëthonta rapax vis solis equorum Aethere raptavit toto terrasque per omnes,Lucr. 5, 398; cf. of the same: arbitrio volucrum raptatur equorum,Ov. M. 2, 234; Lucr. 1, 279: raptatur comis per vim,Ov. M. 12, 223; cf.: signa, quae turbine atque unda raptabantur,Tac. A. 1, 30: pars de divulso raptabant membra juvenco, * Cat. 64, 258: quid me raptas?Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 5; cf.: dissipati liberi, raptata conjux (sc. ad tabulam Valeriam),Cic. Sest. 69, 145 (cf. id. Fam. 14, 2, 2): in fluctu carinas,Sil. 1, 409.
* Trop.
* In partic., to waste, ravage, plunder: igitur raptare inter se, immittere latronum globos, etc.,Tac. A. 12, 54: arces,Stat. Th. 6, 115: adhuc raptabat Africam Tacfarinas, i. e. devastabat, was laying waste, ravaging, Tac. A. 4, 23.
* In gen., to drag along: nam quid ego heroas, quid raptem in crimina divos?to accuse, arraign,Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 27: patres raptabat ad aras cura deūm,Sil. 7, 74 (cf. rapio, I. A.).
* In partic., to hurry along with passion, to agitate, disquiet: ita me amor lassum animi ludificat, fugat, agit, appetit, Raptat, etc.,Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 9: sacer effera raptat Corda pavor,Val. Fl. 1, 799: amor raptabat,Sil. 13, 720.

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