(v. a.P. a.) : ē-lŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.
* To wash out, rinse out; to wash off, wash clean (class.).
* Lit.: vascula,Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 3: patinas,id. Capt. 4, 2, 66: argentum (the silver vessels, the plate),id. Ps. 1, 2, 29: bacas immundas,Col. 12, 52, 21; 6, 3, 4: os,Cels. 3, 4: maculas vestium,Plin. 20, 8, 28, § 72; cf. Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 71; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 46; id. Sest. 29, 63: purpureum colorem omnibus undis,Lucr. 6, 1077; so, colorem,Quint. 1, 1, 5; cf. atramentum,Plin. 35, 6, 25, § 43: aliquid ex aqua,Cels. 7, 21 fin.: corpus,Ov. M. 11, 141: se asinino lacte,Cels. 4, 24 et saep.
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* Trop., to dispose of, remove, clear, or wash away, etc.: ut centurionum profusus sanguis eluatur: num elui praedicatio crudelitatis potest?Cic. Phil. 12, 6; cf.: infectum scelus sub gurgite vasto,Verg. A. 6, 742: crimen,Ov. M. 11, 141: vitia,Quint. 2, 3, 2 et saep.: tales amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae,i. e. to get rid of,Cic. Lael. 21; cf.: amara curarum (cadus),Hor. C. 4, 12, 20.
* To clear, to lay bare: Ponticum Phasim et stagna Maeotidis (sc. avibus),Col. 8, 8, 10.
* In Plautus (like elavo, II.), to strip one's self of, to get rid of, squander one's property, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 21 sq.; id. Stich. 5, 2, 21; of money lavished on expensive baths: elutum in balineis,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5.
* To cleanse, purify, make pure or clear: mentes maculatas crimine,Sil. 11, 200; cf. Sen. Ep. 59: mentem,Lact. 5, 19, 34.—Hence, ēlūtus, a, um, P. a., washed out, i. e. watery, insipid; in the comp.: irriguo nihil est elutius horto (= magis fatuum),Hor. S. 2, 4, 16: (spodi) elutior vis est,Plin. 34, 13, 33, § 129.

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