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spoliare

spoliare is a Latin form of spolio, meaning “strip, rob, plunder; (spolia) spoils, booty”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.47: … , cum recordaris in deos immortalis quam impius, quam sceleratus, quam nefarius fueris? Apollinemne tu Delium spoliare ausus es? illine tu templo tam antiquo, tam sancto, tam religioso manus impias ac sacrilegas adferre conatus …

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.8.9: Spoliare es ausus? Ille continuo exscreat

All forms of spolio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.