(verb) : dēmo, mpsi (msi), mptum (mtum), 3, contr. from de-emo; cf. adimo and abemito
* To take off, take away, to withdraw, subtract, remove (class. and very freq.; for syn. cf.: adimo, eripio, furor, rapio, prehendo, capio, sumo, excipio).
* Lit.: addita demptaque quaedam,Lucr. 2, 770; cf.: cum aliquid additur aut demitur,Cic. Ac. 2, 16: si quid ad eas (leges) addi demi mutarive vellet,Liv. 31, 11 fin.: lubet scire quantum auri erus sibi dempsit,Plaut. Bac. 4, 4, 14 (for which, shortly after, sibi novem abstulit): aurum sibi,Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 13: secures de fascibus,Cic. Rep. 2, 31; so, clipea de columnis,Liv. 40, 51: de capite (from the sum total) medimna DC, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33; cf. ib. 35 (twice): una dempta uncia deunx, dextans dempto sextante, dodrans dempto quadrante, bes dempto triente, Varr. L. L. 5, § 172 Müll.: de stipendio equitum aera,Liv. 7, 41: non hilum de tempore mortis,Lucr. 3, 1100; cf.: partem de die,Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20; Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 20 et saep.: quam minimum ex osse,Cels. 8, 4; cf.: aliquid ex cibo,id. 6, 6, 16: fetus ab arbore,Ov. H. 20, 9; cf.: sucum a vellere,id. A. A. 3, 214.—With simple abl.: fetus arbore,id. M. 14, 689: juga equis,id. ib. 7, 324; id. F. 2, 74; cf.: juga bobus,Hor. Od. 3, 6, 42: vincla pedibus,Ov. M. 3, 168; cf.: vincula nobis,id. F. 3, 320: nubem supercilio,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94 et saep.: soleas (when about to recline at table),Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 16; cf.: Ov. A. A. 2, 212: haec (epistola) casu ad turrim adhaesit ... dempta ad Ciceronem defertur, *Caes. B. C. 5, 48, 8: odorem vino,Cato R. R. 110: barbam,to shave,Suet. Caes. 67.
* Trop.: nulla dies nobis maerorem e pectore demet,Lucr. 3, 921; so, mihi et tibi et illis molestiam,Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 33: nobis acerbam necessitudinem,Sall. J. 102, 5: plus dignitatis patribus (with detrahere, and opp. addere),Liv. 2, 60: silentia furto,i. e. to disclose the theft,Ov. M. 2, 700 et saep.—Without a dat.: metum omnem,Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 18: dolorem,Lucr. 2, 21: sollicitudinem,Cic. Att. 11, 15 fin.: curas his dictis,Verg. A. 2, 775; 3, 153 et saep.: ex dignitate populi (opp. adicere),Liv. 34, 54; cf.: de vi magistratus,id. 3, 33 fin.: lex ipsa per se dempto auctore,even without its author,Liv. 2, 42; cf.: dempto fine,without end,Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 2: addere aut demere ad haec (verba),Vulg. 1 Mac. 8, 30.

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