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Lewis Short
(verb) : ex-cōlo, āre
* To strain out (post-class.): acetum,Pall. Jun. 8, 1: culicem,Vulg. Matt. 23, 24.
* To strain out (post-class.): acetum,Pall. Jun. 8, 1: culicem,Vulg. Matt. 23, 24.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
(verb) : ex-cŏlo, cŏlŭi, cultum, 3
* To work carefully, to tend, cultivate.
* Lit. (very rare, and mostly post-Aug.): vineas,Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 48; cf. rura, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 196: victum hominum (boves),Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187: lanas rudes,i. e. to spin fine,Ov. A. A. 2, 220.
* Transf., in gen., to improve, polish, adorn, perfect: marmora, quibus solum, quibus parietes excolantur,Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 3; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 118; cf.: praetoria xystis et nemoribus,Suet. Aug. 72: urbem adeo, ut jure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere,id. ib. 28: aedificium,Dig. 7, 1, 44: fructuarius excolere quod invenit potest, qualitate aedium non immutata,ib. 7, 1, 13, § 7: vagos resecare capillos Doctus et hirsutas excoluisse genas,Mart. 6, 52, 4: triumphum,Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 135: tumulum in tropaei modum,Flor. 4, 12: legionarii injecere flammae arma sua, quibus exculti funus celebrabant,Suet. Caes. 84.
* Trop.
* To improve, ennoble, refine, perfect (the class. signif. of the word): nihil tam horridum, tam incultum, quod non splendescat oratione et tamquam excolatur, Cic. Parad. prooem. § 3: C. Tuditanus omni vita atque victu excultus atque expolitus,id. Brut. 25, 95; cf.: mansuefactus et excultus,id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62: ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus,id. Leg. 2, 14, 36: excultus doctrinā,id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 4, 38, 84; Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 15: animos doctrina,Cic. Arch. 6, 12: ingenia disciplinā exculta,id. Or. 15, 48: aetas exculta,id. Rep. 2, 10: quibus rebus exculta hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,id. Off. 2, 4, 15: inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes,Verg. A. 6, 663: an victus hominum Atheniensium beneficio excoli potuit, oratio non potuit?Cic. Or. 9, 31; so, mores aut studia,Quint. 4 praef. § 3: mores studiis,id. 12, 2, 1; 12, 3, 1; Gell. 13, 5, 2: orationem,Quint. 8, 3, 86; Tac. Or. 22: excultae cujusdam elegantiae,Quint. 6, 3, 20.
* Of persons, to honor (poet., and very rare, for the class. colere): deos,Phaedr. 4, 11, 10: aliquem,Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 59.
* To work carefully, to tend, cultivate.
* Lit. (very rare, and mostly post-Aug.): vineas,Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 48; cf. rura, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 196: victum hominum (boves),Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 187: lanas rudes,i. e. to spin fine,Ov. A. A. 2, 220.
* Transf., in gen., to improve, polish, adorn, perfect: marmora, quibus solum, quibus parietes excolantur,Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 3; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 118; cf.: praetoria xystis et nemoribus,Suet. Aug. 72: urbem adeo, ut jure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere,id. ib. 28: aedificium,Dig. 7, 1, 44: fructuarius excolere quod invenit potest, qualitate aedium non immutata,ib. 7, 1, 13, § 7: vagos resecare capillos Doctus et hirsutas excoluisse genas,Mart. 6, 52, 4: triumphum,Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 135: tumulum in tropaei modum,Flor. 4, 12: legionarii injecere flammae arma sua, quibus exculti funus celebrabant,Suet. Caes. 84.
* Trop.
* To improve, ennoble, refine, perfect (the class. signif. of the word): nihil tam horridum, tam incultum, quod non splendescat oratione et tamquam excolatur, Cic. Parad. prooem. § 3: C. Tuditanus omni vita atque victu excultus atque expolitus,id. Brut. 25, 95; cf.: mansuefactus et excultus,id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62: ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus,id. Leg. 2, 14, 36: excultus doctrinā,id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 4, 38, 84; Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 15: animos doctrina,Cic. Arch. 6, 12: ingenia disciplinā exculta,id. Or. 15, 48: aetas exculta,id. Rep. 2, 10: quibus rebus exculta hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,id. Off. 2, 4, 15: inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes,Verg. A. 6, 663: an victus hominum Atheniensium beneficio excoli potuit, oratio non potuit?Cic. Or. 9, 31; so, mores aut studia,Quint. 4 praef. § 3: mores studiis,id. 12, 2, 1; 12, 3, 1; Gell. 13, 5, 2: orationem,Quint. 8, 3, 86; Tac. Or. 22: excultae cujusdam elegantiae,Quint. 6, 3, 20.
* Of persons, to honor (poet., and very rare, for the class. colere): deos,Phaedr. 4, 11, 10: aliquem,Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 59.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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