“thief” in Latin

fur (general term; also a litterary term, and as a term of reproach): homo trium litterarum (because fur consists of three letters [comic], Plaut., Aul., 2, 4, 46): plagiarius (one that sells freemen as slaves, a man-stealer; only in Mart., 1, 53, 9, of a litterary thief, where he compares his writings to manumitted slaves; so that plagiarius is always = a man-stealer): raptor (a robber). A petty thief, furunculus: a thief that robs the treasury, peculator; depeculator aerarii; fur publicus (opposed to fur privatorum furtorum = who robs private persons): to make out any one to be a thief, arguere aliquem furti: to accuse anyone as a thief, cum aliquo agere furti: petty thieves are hanged, great ones run away, dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas (Juv., 2, 63); fures privatorum furtorum in nervo atque compedibus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque in purpura (M. Cato ap. Gell., 11, 18, extr.); non rete accipitri tenditur, neque milvo, qui male faciunt nobis, illis qui nil faciunt tenditur (Terentianus, Phorm., 2, 2, 16, sq.); sacrilegia minuta puniuntur, magna in triumphis feruntur (Sen., Ep., 87, 20): a receiver or harborer of thieves, furum occultator et receptator (after Cic., Mil., 19, 50); furum receptor or receptator (Ulp., Dig., 1, 18, 13; Paullus, Dig., 1, 15, 3, etc.): a den of thieves, furum receptaculum (after Liv., 34, 21); domus praedarum et furtorum receptrix (after Cic., Verr. 4, 18, 17): a nest of thieves, *locus furum occultator et receptator (after Cic., Mil., 19, 50).