1. to snatch up , (Iliad by Homer)

2. to snatch away, carry off , (Homer), etc.; of slave-dealers, to kidnap , (Odyssey by Homer):—;Pass. (Sophocles Tragicus): in Prose also, to be dragged before a magistrate, carried off to prison , Lat. rapi in jus, (Demosthenes Orator)

3. in good sense, to rescue , (Plutarch)

4. to take by storm, plunder , (Euripides); of persons, ἀναρπασόμενος τοὺς Φωκέας to take them by storm or at once , (Herdotus Historicus)

5. to carry off, steal , (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)