(verb) : as-portoabs-porto; cf. ab init., āvi, ātum, 1
* To bear, carry, or take off or away (in the class. per. only in prose; cf. Wagner ad Verg. A. 2, 778).—Com.
* Of things: simulacrum e signo Cereris,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.; so id. ib. 2, 1, 20; id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 28: multa de suis rebus,id. Par. 1, 2: sua omnia Salamina,Nep. Them. 2 fin.; Liv. 2, 4; 42, 3; Vulg. 2 Reg. 12, 30.—Also
* Of persons, to carry away (esp. by ship) to transport: aliquem trans mare,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 19: virginem,id. Rud. prol. 67: quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, * Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18: asportate ossa mea vobiscum,Vulg. Gen. 50, 24; ib. Dan. 5, 2.

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