pŏpŭlātor

I. a devastator, destroyer, ravager, spoiler, plunderer (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I. Lit.: agrorum, Liv. 3, 68 fin.: Trojae (Atrides), Ov. M. 13, 655.—Poet., transf.: Tuscae glandis aper, Mart. 7, 27, 1: Calabri arvi Sirius, Val. Fl. 1, 683.—

II. Trop., a destroyer, consumer: luxus populator opum, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 35: civitatis, Quint. Decl. 12, 24 fin.; Luc. 4, 92.