(verb) : ex-ĕdo, ēdi, ēsum (exessum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5), 3 (archaic
* Praes. subj. exedint, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32. Post-class. form of the praes. ind. exedit, for exest, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10; Seren. Sammon. 7), , to eat up, devour, consume (class.).
* Lit.: intestina,Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32: frumentum quod curculiones exesse incipiunt,Varr. R. R. 1, 63, 1; Col. 1, 6, 16: serpens, qui jecur ejus exesset,Hyg. Fab. 55.—Proverb.: tute hoc intristi; tibi omne est exedendum,as you have cooked, so you must eat,Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; cf.: tibi quod intristi, exedendum est,Aus. Idyll. Prooem. 5.
* Transf., in gen., to eat up, consume, destroy: deus id eripiet, vis aliqua conficiet aut exedet,Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37: exesa scabra rubigine pila,Verg. G. 1, 495: flammeus ardor Silvas exederat,Lucr. 5, 1253: molem (undae),Curt. 4, 2: apparebat epigramma exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis fere,effaced by time,Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: multa monumenta vetustas exederat,Curt. 3, 4: exesae arboris antrum,rotten, hollow,Verg. G. 4, 44: dens exesus,Cels. 7, 12: exesa vis luminis,consumed,Tac. H. 4, 81: urbem nefandis odiis,to destroy,Verg. A. 5, 785: rem publicam,Tac. A. 2, 27: quid te futurum censes, quem assidue exedent,i. e. devour, consume thy property,Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 53.
* Trop., to consume, prey upon, corrode: aegritudo exest animum,Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; cf.: accedunt aegritudines, molestiae, maerores, qui exedunt animos,id. Fin. 1, 18, 59; 1, 16, 51: illi beati, quos nullae aegritudines exedunt, etc.,id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16: maestas exedit cura medullas,Cat. 66, 23 et saep.: exspectando exedor miser atque exenteror,Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 1.

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