I.to spoil, pillage, plunder (class.).
I. Lit.: “agrum Campanum, Quadrig. l. l.: ad expoliandum corpus, qui vulneraverat alacer gaudio accurrit,” Curt. 9, 5, 10.—
II. Trop.: “exercitu et provincia Pompeium,” Cic. Att. 10, 1, 3; cf.: “hos vestro auxilio,” Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9: “virtutem rerum selectione,” Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 43: “omnem honorem et dignitatem Caesaris,” to deprive, Hirt. B. G. 8, 50, 4 dub. (al. spoliare): “improbis sese artibus,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 3.
