abluite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abluo, abluere, ablui, ablutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wash away/off/out, blot out, purify, wash, cleanse; dispel (infection); quench;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...spoliatur lumine terra et repletur item nigrasque sibi abluit umbras. Nec tamen hic oculos falli concedimus hilum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...male haerentes et saxa resolutis remissa compagibus rotat, abluit uillas et intermixtos dominis greges deuehit, uulsisque minoribus tectis..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Cinyphio scelus sub axe Libyco tersit et dextram abluit. quo, misera, pergis? cur tuas damnas manus? De. Damnat..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...graditurque oblita malorum. sic ubi Mygdonios planctus sacer abluit Almo laetaque iam Cybele festaeque per oppida taedae, quis..."Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Callichoron. nec vana fides: his Bacchus in undis abluit eoo rorantes sanguine thyrsos. illum post acies rubrique novissima..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Gelli, quantum non ultima Tethys nec genitor Nympharum abluit Oceanus: nam nihil est quicquam sceleris, quo prodeat ultra..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pretiumque et causa laboris. ipse manus hausta victrices abluit unda, anguiferumque caput dura ne laedat harena, mollit humum..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...patria diverso maximus orbe excipit Eridanus fumantiaque abluit ora. Naides Hesperiae trifida fumantia flamma corpora dant tumulo, signant..."