raptor (noun M) : rapio
* One who seizes by force, a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: praedo, direptor, praedator).
* Lit.
* With gen.: (fluvius) rapidus raptori pueri subduxit pedem,Plaut. Men. prol. 65: hostium,id. Ep. 2, 2, 115: panis et peni,id. Trin. 2, 1, 23: orbis,Tac. Agr. 30: filiae,id. A. 1, 58; cf. poet.: thalami mei, i. e. uxoris,Sen. Hippol. 627: templi,Just. 8, 2, 9: ferri, that draws or attracts to itself, i. e. the magnet, Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 4.
* Trop.: raptores alieni honoris,Ov. M. 8, 438: numquam defuturos raptores Italicae libertatis lupos, etc.,Vell. 2, 27, 2.
* Absol.: rapta et raptores tradere,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 51; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 9; Hor. C. 3, 20, 4; Luc. 3, 125; Mart. 8, 26, 2; Tac. H. 2, 86 al.: ferus, i. e. lupus,Col. 7, 12, 9: gratus raptae raptor fuit,ravisher,Ov. A. A. 1, 680; Hor. C. 4, 6, 2; Mart. 12, 52, 7; Quint. 9, 2, 90; 7, 8, 4: consilium raptor vertit in fallaciam,Phaedr. 1, 32, 5.

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