I.to snatch, tear, or pull out; to snatch away, take away (freq. and class.; cf.: capio, prehendo, sumo, demo, adimo, rapio, furor).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “tibias ex ore,” Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 36; cf.: “bolum e faucibus,” Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 6: “hirundines ex nido,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 67; 3, 1, 8: ex manibus alicujus, Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 13, 1; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 9: “torrem ab igne,” Ov. M. 8, 457: “ensem vaginā,” Verg. A. 4, 579 et saep.: aliena bona, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 11; so, “vela, armamenta, copias,” Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 7; 6, 30, 2; 7, 54, 3: “nubem,” Verg. A. 2, 606: “purgamenta hortorum,” to carry away, Tac. A. 11, 32 fin. et saep.: “aliquem, etc.,” to deliver, set free, Plaut. Men. 5, 8, 3; 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 4; Liv. 2, 54 al.; cf.: “aliquem e manibus hostium,” Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 6; Liv. 5, 51; 41, 14: “Abydenos ex obsidione,” id. 31, 16: “aliquem ex periculo,” Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 5; cf.: “istum fortuna ex illo periculo eripuit,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 28, § 71: “aliquem ex vinculis,” Curt. 4, 14, 22: aliquem ex miseriis, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 1, 52: “aliquem ex media morte,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6; cf.: “filium a morte,” id. Div. 2, 10: “praedam de manibus,” id. Cat. 2, 1, 2: “istum de vestra severitate,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67; “but: ex severitate alicujus,” id. ib. 2, 3, 36, § “83: aliquem malis,” Verg. A. 6, 365 al.: “erepto ex equo C. Flaminio,” Liv. 23, 45: “oculum alicui,” Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 22; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 20: “gladium isti,” Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 7: “classem Caesari,” Caes. B. C. 3, 111, 4 al.: “concubinam militi,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 2: “aliquem (aliquam) alicui,” id. Merc. 5, 4, 12; id. Rud. 3, 4, 7; Ter. Ad. prol. 8; 2, 2, 30; Cic. Lael. 27, 102 al.—Less freq.: “aliquem ab aliquo,” Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 30; id. Eun. 4, 6, 1; 14; so, “ereptis ab eo duabus legionibus,” Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 3: “a Trisensibus plus lucri,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 38, § 86; 2, 1, 10, § 27. —
b. With se, to take one's self off, to flee, escape: “per eos, ne causam diceret, se eripuit,” Caes. B. G. 1, 4, 2: “se latebris,” id. ib. 6, 43 fin.; cf.: “se ex manibus militum,” id. ib. 7, 46 fin.: “se ab illa miseria,” Cic. Fam. 9, 13, 1: “se ex pugna,” id. Mur. 16, 34; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 60, § 140; id. Sest. 24, 53: “se sequentibus,” Liv. 29, 32: “se hosti fugā,” Curt. 5, 13: “se flammā,” Cic. Brut. 23, 90: “se leto,” Verg. A. 2, 134: “se flammis,” id. ib. 2, 289: “se morae,” Hor. C. 3, 29, 5: “se servituti,” Sen. Ep. 80, 4: “rebus humanis se,” id. de Prov. 8, 12 et saep.—With adv.: “eas inde,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 8.—
c. Prov.: “Lupo agnum eripere, for something difficult or impossible,” Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 31.—
B. Pregn.: eripi, to be snatched away by death, to die suddenly (not before the Aug. per.): “fatis erepta,” Ov. M. 1, 358: “primis conjux ereptus in annis,” Val. Fl. 3, 316; cf.: “in flore aetatis ereptus rebus humanis,” Curt. 10, 5, 10.—Rarely act.: “lux ereptura eum vitā,” Amm. 30, 5, 18; cf. 30, 5, 10.
II. Trop., to take away, snatch away: “responsiones omnes hoc verbo,” Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 63; cf.: “orationem alicui ex ore,” id. Merc. 1, 2, 64: “primam vocem ab ore loquentis,” Verg. A. 7, 119: “alicui jus suum,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 6: “libertatem (hostis),” id. Capt. 2, 2, 61; cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 17: “potestatem hominis omnino aspiciendi (opp. suppeditare omnium rerum abundantiam),” id. Lael. 23, 87; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 3, 5: “omnem usum navium,” id. B. G. 3, 14, 7: “semestre imperium,” id. B. C. 1, 9, 2; cf.: “tetrarchiam alicui,” Cic. Div. 2, 37, 79: “mihi dolorem,” id. Att. 9, 6, 5: “alicui errorem,” id. ib. 10, 4, 6; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 31; id. Off. 2, 3, 10; Just. 6, 3, 12: “alicui timorem,” Cic. Cat. 1, 7 fin.; id. Att. 1, 16, 8: “lucem,” id. Ac. 2, 10; 32 fin.; id. N. D. 1, 3, 6 et saep.: “alicui pudicitiam,” Quint. 5, 11, 15; “but: virginis pudorem,” Amm. 15, 7, 5; cf.: “caelumque diemque Teucrorum ex oculis,” Verg. A. 1, 88; and: “prospectum oculis,” id. ib. 8, 254: “tempora certa modosque,” Hor. S. 1, 4, 57: “jocos, venerem, etc. (anni),” id. Ep. 2, 2, 56: “vatibus omnem fidem,” Ov. M. 15, 283: fugam, poet. for se fuga, or for the simple rapere fugam, to flee, Verg. A. 2, 619.—Poet.: eripiunt flammae noctem, i. c. light up the night, Sil. 11, 281: “eripuere oculos aurae,” id. 9, 501: “se fluvius retro eripit,” turns back, id. 9, 238.—Poet., with an object clause: “posse loqui eripitur,” Ov. M. 2, 483: “illis eriperes verbis mihi, sidera caeli Lucere,” i. e. to persuade me that not, Tib. 1, 9, 35.—With quin: vix tamen eripiam, velis quin, etc., I shall scarcely hinder you from, etc., Hor. S. 2, 2, 23.
