dē-spŏlĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (also
dep. : quos despoliatur, with depopulatur, Afran. ap. Non. 480, 13), to rob, plunder, despoil (rare, but good prose).—Constr., aliquem (aliquid) aliqua re : ne se armis despoliaret, * Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4: me despoliat, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 53; cf. id. Cas. 4, 4, 4; Ter. And. 816; Cic. Att. 7, 9: Dianae templum, id. Verr. 2, 3, 21 fin. : digitos suos, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 57: despoliari triumpho, Liv. 45, 36.