3 uses
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Definition
to steal — often after conquering the location with the goods
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the goods stolen
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the goods stolen
- Thus, in battalia, march embodied ants, Fearful of winter, and of future wants, T' invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plunder'd forage of their yellow prey.Book 4 (58% in)
- Allur'd with hope of plunder, and intent By force to rob, by fraud to circumvent, The brutal Cacus, as by chance they stray'd, Four oxen thence, and four fair kine convey'd; And, lest the printed footsteps might be seen, He dragg'd 'em backwards to his rocky den.Book 8 (27% in)
- Our helms defend the young, disguise the gray: We live by plunder, and delight in prey.Book 9 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "plunder" in The Aeneid.
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