dē-porto, āvi, ātum, 1 (arch. inf. pass. deportarier, Ter. Phorm. 978), v. a., to carry or convey down; to carry off, to convey away (freq. and good prose).
I In gen.: de fundo tigna et oleam ne deportato, Cato R. R. 144, 3: arma Brundisium jumentis, Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 A. fin. : frumentum in castra. Caes. B. C. 1, 60, 3: ossa ejus in Cappadociam ad matrem, Nep. Eum. 13 fin. : corpus Augusti Romam, Suet. Claud. 6; cf. id. Aug. 100: aliquem per vicos, id. ib. 78 fin. et saep.: ut te Leucadem deportaret, Cic. Fam. 16, 5: naves partem exercitus eo deportaverant, Caes. B. C. 1, 27; so of transporting by water, id. B. G. 3, 12, 3; Liv. 43, 6; Suet. Tib. 18: quos (serpentes) flumina deportant, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 136: lucem, id. 2, 103, 106, § 234: arcam, Vulg. 1 Par. 15, 25. —
II In partic. as a t. t.
A To bring or fetch home anything from the provinces: victorem exercitum, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 21; so Liv. 26, 21; 30, 40 fin. al.: Tertia tua, quam tu tecum deportaras, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16: cum aliud nihil ex tanta praeda domum suam deportavisset, id. Rep. 1, 14.—
2 Transf., of abstract objects, to carry away , i. e. to get, acquire : tertium triumphum, Cic. Off. 1, 22 fin. ; cf. lauream, Tac. A. 2, 26 fin. ; and: gloriam ex illis gentibus, Curt. 9, 10: si nihil aliud de hac provincia nisi illius benevolentiam deportassem, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 7: te (sc. Atticum) non cognomen solum Athenis deportasse, sed humanitatem et prudentiam intellego, id. de Sen. 1, 1: nihil ex ista provincia potes, quod jucundius sit, deportare, id. Fam. 7, 15 fin. : ex Asia deportatum flagitium ac dedecus, id. Mur. 5, 12.—
B To banish, transport , for life (attended with loss of citizenship and testatorship, both of which the relegatus retained, v. Dig. 48, 22, 7, § 3; id. 28, 1, 8—mostly post-Aug.— for syn. also cf.: exsilio afficio or multo, in exsilium pello or eicio, expello, exigo): inter poenas est etiam insulae deportatio, quae poena adimit civitatem Romanam, etc., Dig. 48, 22, 7, § 2 sq.: Vibius Serenus in insulam Amorgum deportatur, Tac. A. 4, 13: ut liberti quoque Italia deportarentur, id. ib. 14, 45: in reis deportatis, Quint. 5, 2, 1.—
2 Transf.: non hoc publicitus scelus hinc deportarier In solas terras? Ter. Phorm. 978.