raptus

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From Latin raptus, from rapio (“seize”).

159; Claudian (Raptus Proserpinae, ii. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian
He was a native of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, as we learn from an allusion in his poem Euthymiæ Raptus or The Teares of Peace, and from W. Browne's reference to him in Britannia's Pastorals as "the learned shepheard of faire Hitching Hill." — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman
Many nations do yet, and did anciently, go to war without defensive arms, or with such, at least, as were of very little proof: “Tegmina queis capitum, raptus de subere cortex.” [“To whom the coverings of the heads were the bark of the cork-tree.”--AEneid, vii. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

seizure, ictus

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