(verb) : dē-tergĕo, si, sum, 2 (also post-class.:
* Detergis,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 191: detergunt, id. ap. Eutr. 2, 375: detergantur,Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 21; Ap. Mag. 59, p. 312, 26; Sen. Ep. 47, 4, v. tergeo)
* To wipe off, wipe away (class.).
* Lit.: sudorem frontis brachio,Suet. Ner. 23; cf.: lacrimas pollice,Ov. M. 13, 746; cf.: teneros fletus stamine,Claud. in Eutr. 2, 375: araneas,Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 21.—Poet.: nubila,i. e. to drive away, remove,Hor. Od. 1, 7, 15; cf. sidera, to drive or chase away, Cic. Arat. 246.
* To strip off, break off; to break to pieces: remos,Caes. B. C. 1, 58; Liv. 28, 30 fin.: pinnas asseribus falcatis,id. 38, 5: palmites,Col. 4, 27 fin.
* Trop.
* To take away, remove: fastidia,Col. 8, 10, 5: somnum, Claud. Epith. Pall. et Cel. 27.
* To cleanse, purge: animum helleboro,Petr. 88, 4; secula foedo victu,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 1, 191.
* In colloq. lang., of money: primo anno LXXX. detersimus,have swept off, got,Cic. Att. 14, 10, 6.

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