ēripiō ipuī, eptus, ere ex + rapio, to tear out, snatch away, wrest, pluck, tear, take away: vela, armamenta, copias, Cs.: quae nunc hebetat visūs nubem, V.: ornamenta ex urbibus: sacra ex aedibus: arma ab aliis: ab igne ramum, O.: vaginā ensem, V.: consuli caput, L.: classem Caesari, Cs.: mihi Scipio ereptus: ereptus rebus humanis, Cu.

—To rescue, deliver, free (fugitivam), Cs.: patriam ex hostium manibus, L.: hos ex morte: istum de vestrā severitate: me his malis, V.

— With pron reflex., to break away, rescue oneself, escape: per eos se, Cs.: ex pugnā se: me e complexu patriae: leto me, V.: te morae, H.

—Fig., to take away, snatch away, take violently, remove, deprive, free: (vocem) loquentis ab ore, caught up eagerly, V.: hominis aspiciendi potestatem: ut usus navium eriperetur, was lost, Cs.: erepto semenstri imperio, Cs.: libertatem lictori: diem Teucrorum ex oculis, V.: Tempora certa modosque, H.: anni Eripuere iocos, H.: vatibus Eripienda fides, O.: Eripe fugam, flee, V.: Posse loqui eripitur, the power of speech, O.: Vix tamen eripiam, velis quin, etc., I shall scarcely destroy your desire, etc., H.