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disperdo

disperdo, to spoil, ruin

dis-perdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3,
  • v. a., to destroy, spoil, ruin (rare but class.): bibe, es, disperde rem, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 32 (248); cf. id. Trin. 2, 2, 58 (333): ut a majoribus nostris possessiones relictas disperdat et dissipet, * Cic. Agr. 1, 1, 2: imaginem, Gell. 15, 31, 4. —Poet.: stridenti miserum stipula disperdere carmen, to spoil, * Verg. E. 3, 27.— Of personal objects: lenonem, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 96 (918): qui tot cives Romanos occidit, arripuit, disperdidit, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10: inimicos, Vulg. Psa. 142, 11 et saep.— (The pass. forms are not found, dispereo taking their place. In Lucr. 2, 831, dispergitur is the true reading.)

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