expilo
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ex-pīlo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to pillage, rob, plunder (class.; syn.: privo, orbo, compilo, spolio, diripio, populor, vasto, praedor).
I Lit.: si socios spolias, aerarium expilas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, 43; cf. id. Verr. 2, 4, 27: ad expilandos socios diripiendasque provincias, id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57: fana, id. Off. 3, 23: armarium, id. Clu. 64, 181: thesauros, Liv. 31, 12, 3: rem hereditariam, Dig. 29, 2, 21; cf.: expilatae hereditatis, Dig. 47, tit. 19.—*
II Trop.: sumenda sunt nobis ab iis ipsis, a quibus expilati sumus, Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 123.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
expīlō,¹² āvī, ātum, āre, tr., voler, piller, dépouiller : Cic. Par. 43 ; Clu. 181 ; Verr. 2, 4, 30 || [fig.] Cic. de Or. 3, 123.
Latin > German (Georges)
ex-pīlo, āvī, ātum, āre, ausplündern, berauben, aerarium, Cic.: regem, socios, fana, Cic.: cubilia (sc. ferarum), Sen.: hereditatem, ICt.: poet., genis expilat oculos, reißt die Au. aus den W., Ov. met. 13, 562 M. (Riese u. Korn expellit). – übtr., Cic. de or. 3, 123.
Latin > English
expilo expilare, expilavi, expilatus V :: plunder, rob, despoil
