I.to take away by violence, to drag away, to tear off or away (stronger than its synn. abduco, abigo, abstraho).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “abripite hunc intro actutum inter manus,” hurry him away, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 38: “puella ex Atticā hinc abrepta,” stolen, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 30; cf.: “abreptam ex eo loco virginem secum asportāsse,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 107: “de convivio in vincla atque in tenebras,” id. ib. 2, 4, 10, § “24: ab complexu alicujus,” Liv. 3, 57, 3: “milites vi fluminis abrepti,” Caes. B. C. 1, 64; cf. Mel. 3, 5, 8; Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 170; Verg. A. 1, 108: “aliquem ad quaestionem,” Cic. Clu. 33, 89; cf.: “aliquem ad humanum exitum,” id. Rep. 1, 16 fin.; with acc. only: “Cererem,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111: “cives,” Nep. Milt. 4, 2: “aliquid,” id. Dat. 4, 2: abripere se, to run, scamper away: “ita abripuit repente sese subito,” Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 21; so id. Curc. 5, 1, 8.—
B. Transf., of property, to dissipate, squander: “quod ille compersit miser, id illa univorsum abripiet,” Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 11.—
II. Trop., to carry off, remove, detach: “repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum ... abstraxit,” Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145: voluntate omnes tecum fuerunt; “tempestate abreptus est unus,” id. Lig. 12, 34 (the figure taken from those driven away in a storm at sea); so, “abreptus amore caedum,” Sil. 5, 229; cf. id. 6, 332: “(filium) etiam si natura a parentis similitudine abriperet,” i.e. made unlike him, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12.
