vastatio
From LSJ
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
vāstātiō,¹² ōnis, f. (vasto), dévastation, ravage : Cic. Cat. 2, 18 ; Liv. 7, 15, 11 || pl., Cic. Phil. 5, 25.
