rapto

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

raptō āvī, ātus, āre, freq.

rapio, to seize and carry off, snatch, drag, hurry away : curru quadriiugo raptarier, dragged along , Enn. ap. C.: Hector raptatus bigis, V.: alqd Per silvam, V.: arbitrio raptatur equorum, O.: raptata coniux (sc. ad tabulam Valeriam).— To ravage, plunder : adhuc raptabat Africam Tacfarinas, Ta.—Fig., to drag, hale, arraign : quid raptem in crimina divos? Pr.