(verb) : ex-ŏnĕro, āvi, ātum, 1
* To free from a burden, to disburden, unload, discharge (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; in Cic. and Caes. not at all).
* Lit.: navem,Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 26; Auct. Afr. 8, 1; cf.: navigia jactu,Sen. Contr. 4, 4: alvum,Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 126; cf. ventrem,Suet. Vesp. 2; Mart. 10, 48, 7: stomachum nausea gravem,Petr. 103: vesicam,id. 27: morbidum corpus (profluvio sanguinis),Plin. 8, 26, 40, § 96: velut exoneratus sentinā (nautilus),id. 9, 29, 47, § 88: nec amnes tantum sed lacus quoque in Padum sese exonerantes,id. 3, 16, 20, § 118: plenas exonerare colos,to empty, spin off,Ov. F. 3, 818: ut eam ex hoc exoneres agro,i. e. to send off,Plaut. Epid. 3, 4, 34; cf.: exonerata plebe coloniis deductis,Liv. 10, 6, 3: multitudo proximas in terras exonerata,Tac. H. 5, 2.
* Trop., to relieve, free: exonera civitatem vano forsitan metu,Liv. 2, 2, 7; cf.: parte curae senatum,id. 10, 21, 5: animum sollicitudine,Curt. 4, 13: exonerata fide mea, quid ultra facere possum, quam uti? etc.,exonerated,Liv. 42, 13 fin.: conscientiam suam,Curt. 6, 8: se,id. 6, 9: aliquid in quaslibet aures,to confide,Sen. Ep. 3; cf.: exonerari laborum meorum partem fateor,is discharged, removed,Tac. A. 3, 54: dolorem convicio,to vent,Petr. 123: aes alienum,to clear off, pay off,Dig. 23, 3, 5, § 10.

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