(verb) : ex-sculpo (exculp-), psi, ptum, 3
* To dig out, cut out, chisel out, carve.
* Lit.: terram unde exsculpserant, fossam vocabant,Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll.: foramina arborum exsculpta digitos sex. Cato, R. R. 18, 2: nescio quid e quercu exsculpseram, quod videretur simile simulacri,Cic. Att. 13, 28, 2: signum ex molari lapide,Quint. 2, 19, 3; cf. id. 2, 4, 7.
* To scratch out, erase: hos versus Lacedaemonii exsculpserunt,Nep. Paus. 1, 4.
* Trop., to get out, elicit, extort: ex aliquo verum,Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 45: in quaestione vix exsculpsi, ut diceret,obtained,Plaut. Cist. 2, 2, 6.—*

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