vastatio
From LSJ
φέρουσα κατακρύπτει ἐς τὸ ἀφραστότατόν οἱ ἐφαίνετο εἶναι → wherefore she bore it away and hid it where she thought it would be hardest to find
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
vastātĭo: ōnis, f. id.,
I a laying waste, desolating, ravaging, devastation: omnium, Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18: domuum, Sall. Or. ad Caes. 1, 4: villarum, Tac. H. 4, 34: agri, Liv. 7, 15 11; 10, 4, 7; Quint. 8, 4, 14: Italiam a vastatione defendere, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15, 4.—Plur: intactum vastationibus regnum, Tac. A. 15, 27.
