ex-pīlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., 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.