vāpŭlo, āvi, 1, v. neutral pass. [perh. root vap-; cf. vappo; prop. to wriggle, flutter; hence], to get a cudgelling or flogging, to be flogged.
I Lit.: ego vapulando, ille verberando usque ambo defessi sumus, Ter. Ad. 213; so (opp. verberare), Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 178: vapulo ego invitus, id. Cas. 5, 3, 15: ergo istoc magis, Quia vaniloquus, vapulabis, id. Am. 1, 1, 223: cum corpus vapulet, Lucr. 4, 936: non ego, sed tenuis vapulat umbra mea, Prop. 3, 3 (2, 12), 20: qui illum viderant ab illo flagris vapulantem, Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 15, 2: testis in reum rogatus, an ab reo fustibus vapulasset, Quint. 9, 2, 12; 1, 3, 16: saepe territus quasi vapulaturus, Dig. 47, 10, 15: coctum ego, non vapulatum dudum conductus fui, Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 9.—
2 Vapula, vapulet, as an opprobrious expression, you be flogged! he be flogged! like the vulg. Engl., you be hanged! he be hanged! nunc profecto vapula ob mendacium, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 214; id. As. 2, 4, 72; id. Truc. 5, 53: vapulet! Ne sibi me credat supplicem fore! id. Pers. 2, 3, 17: vapulare te vehementer jubeo, id. Curc. 4, 4, 12.—Hence, prov.: vapula Papiria, of doubtful signif.; v. Fest. p. 372 Müll. —
B Transf.
1 Of troops, like our to be beaten , i. e. to be conquered : septimam legionem vapulasse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4.—
2 Of property, to be dissipated , squandered : vapulat peculium, Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 10: multa, Sen. Q. N. 6, 7, 6.—
3 In gen., of inanim. things, to be struck , beaten : (olea) quae vapulavit macescit, Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 1: turris pluvio, Sen. Agam. 93.—
II Trop., to be lashed , attacked : omnium sermonibus vapulare, Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1.—
B To be in trouble , to be afflicted : sub Veneris regno vapulo, non sub Jovis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 15.