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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of raptō.
Participle
raptātus (feminine raptāta, neuter raptātum); first/second-declension participle
- ravaged, plundered
- seized and carried away, dragged along or away
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.272–273:
- “ raptātus bīgīs, ut quondam, āterque cruentō
pulvere, perque pedēs trāiectūs lōra tumentīs.”- “ as once he did, having been dragged along by the chariot-rounds ; and blackened with bloody dust, the leather thongs still pierced his swollen ankles.”
(Aeneas dreams of Hector the night Troy falls; see Iliad, Book 22, in which Achilles defiles the corpse of Hector.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.