detersit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detergeo, detergere, detersi, detersus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wipe/clean off/away; strip/trim/sheer/break/sweep off, rub/wipe clean; cancel;; remove, take away; break to pieces; have swept off;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...minimum secum ex corpore tulit, si sordidum omne detersit, et expeditus leuisque ac contentus modico emicuit. Cum illa..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...deformi faceret quaesivi. [VIII] Sudorem ille manibus detersit et: "Si scires, inquit, quae mihi acciderunt. — Quid novi?" inquam..." 
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pius Alcides Pelopi certauit honorem puluereumque fera crinem detersit oliua; proxima uipereo celebratur libera nexu Phocis, Apollineae bellum..."- T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Rhodii, tractum ancorale et implicitum remis latus alterum detersit; debilitatam ea ipsa, quae icta cohaeserat nauis cepit..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...triremes suppressit, unius, praelata impetu, lateris alterius remos detersit; ceterasque quas indepta esset mulcasset, ni cum reliquis quinque..."