Pecus abigere
From TTT @ frath.net
Latin Construction
- To rustle or drive off cattle.
Constructions
- diripere, pecus abigere — ‘to plunder and to drive off cattle,’ Cic. [αʹ]; Liv. [γʹ]
Loci
- αʹ v. Cicero, In Verrem Secunda 3.23:
| hominibus coactis in eorum arationes Apronius venit, omne instrumentum diripuit, familiam abduxit, pecus abegit. | Apronius rounded up some men and came into their farms, seized all their equipment, confiscated their slaves, and drove off their cattle. |
- βʹ Cicero, In Pisonem 34.84:
| Vectigalia nostra perturbarunt, urbes ceperunt, vastarunt agros, socios nostros in servitutem abduxerunt, familias abripuerunt, pecus abegerunt, Thessalonicenses, cum oppido desperassent, munire arcem coegerunt. | They disturbed our incomes; they took our cities; our fields they laid waste; they carried off our allies into slavery; they seized our households; they drove away our cattle; they forced the Thessalonians to fortify their citadel, as they had lost hope for their town. |
- γʹ v. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 2.23:
| Sabino bello ait se militantem, quia propter populationes agri non fructu modo caruerit, sed villa incensa fuerit, direpta omnia, pecora abacta, tributum iniquo suo tempore imperatum, aes alienum fecisse. | He said he served in the Sabine War and that he had not only lost his harvest on account of the pillaging, but his farmhouse had been burned down, everything had been plundered, his cattle was driven off, the war tax was levied at an inopportune time, and he went into debt. |
