(verb) : ē-lăvo, lāvi, lautum, lōtum, 1
* To wash out or away, to wash clean (very rare; not in the Cic. per.).
* Lit.: elota cerussa,Cels. 6, 6, no. 3: elota oliva,Col. 12, 52, 21.
* Transf.: elautae ambae sumus opera Neptunia,washed in the sea, wrecked,Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 37; so, in mari elavare, to wash or bathe in the sea, i. e. to be shipwrecked, ruined, id. ib. 2, 7, 21; 5, 2, 20.— Hence, trop.: nos mare acerrumum: nam in mari repperi, hic elavi bonis, have lost, been stripped of property, id. As. 1, 2, 9 (but Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 7, the true reading is elutum, Ritschl, Brix).

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