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|lshtext=<b>răpīna</b>: ae, f. [[rapio]].<br /><b>I</b> Robbery, [[plundering]], [[pillage]], [[rapine]] ([[class]].; in anteAug. [[prose]], as also in Tac., Suet., Verg., and Hor., [[only]] in plur.; syn. [[praeda]]): [[nihil]] cogitant, [[nisi]] [[caedes]], [[nisi]] incendia, [[nisi]] rapinas, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10: [[avaritia]] in rapinis, id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 3: hostem rapinis prohibere, Caes. B. G. 1, 15; Hirt. B. G. 8, 25, 1: [[spes]] rapinarum, Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 3; Sall. C. 5, 2; 16, 4; 57, 1; Vell. 2, 32 fin.; 2, 83, 2; Cat. 19, 19 al.: an furtis pereamve rapinis, Hor. S. 2, 3, 157.—In <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>, esp. the [[act]] of [[robbery]], the [[business]] or [[habit]] of [[plunder]]: per latrocinia ac rapinam tolerantes vitam, Liv. 26, 40, 17: a rapinā hostium templa vindicare, Just. 8, 2, 9: bonorum [[atque]] hominum, id. 8, 5, 9: cum rapinae [[occasio]] deesset, id. 21, 3, 1; 43, 2, 9; Val. Max. 6, 8, 7; 9, 3, 7; Sen. Polyb. 3, 4; id. ad Marc. 10, 4; id. Const. 6, 2; id. Ep. 72, 8; Col. 8, 11, 1: [[terra]] patuit invita rapinae, Ov. M. 5, 492; 10, 28: ad nullius rei rapinam, Front. Strat. 4, 1, 9; so, alimenti, a withdrawing, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 239; 2, 68, 68, § 173: dum ei rapinam fecit, Dig. 31, 1, 88, § 16: promissae signa rapinae, of [[carrying]] [[off]], Ov. M. 14, 818.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Concr., [[prey]], [[plunder]], [[booty]] ([[poet]]. and [[late]] Lat.); abstractaeque boves abjurataeque rapinae, * Verg. A. 8, 263: [[piscator]] ferat aequorum rapinas, Mart. 10, 87, 18; 8, 78, 8: et [[rapina]] pauperis in [[domo]] vestrā, Vulg. Isa. 3, 14; 33, 23. — Plur.: rapinas dissipare, Vulg. Dan. 11, 24.—*<br /><b>II</b> A collecting [[together]], removing: opum suarum, Auct. Aetn. 611.<br /><b>rāpīna</b>: ae, f. [[rapum]].<br /><b>I</b> A [[turnip]]-[[field]], Col. 11, 2, 71.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[turnip]], [[rape]], [[Cato]], R. R. 5, 8; 35, 2; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. 41, 30 (2270 ap. Orell.).
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