populatrix

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

pŏpŭlātrix, īcis, f. [populator],

she that wastes or destroys (poet.): Siculi populatrix virgo profundi, i. e. Scylla, Stat. S. 3, 2, 86: catervae, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 167.— Poet., transf.: populatrix Hymetti, apis, a rifler , Mart. 13, 104.