(verb) : ex-trăho, xi, ctum, 3
* To draw out or forth, to drag out (class.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: rete ex aqua,Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 124: telum e corpore,Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: gladium e vulnere,Quint. 4, 2, 13; for which: telum de vulnere,Ov. M. 12, 119: vivum puerum alvo,Hor. A. P. 340; cf.: filium exsecto ventre,Dig. 5, 2, 6: spinas, venena corpori,Plin. 28, 18, 76, § 245; 7, 2, 2, § 13; cf.: anulum sibi deficienti,Suet. Tit. 73: ut sine labore hanc (aquam) extraxi!Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 4: vires humerorum (natae) ad aratra extrahenda,to draw forward, draw,Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159.—With personal objects: aliquem e latebra,Suet. Vit. 17; cf.: extrahitur domo latitans Oppianicus a Manilio, Cic. Clu. 13, 39: rure in urbem,Hor. S. 1, 1, 11: senatores vi in publicum,Liv. 26, 13, 1: hostes invitos in aciem,id. 8, 29, 11: aliquem turba oppositis humeris,Hor. S. 2, 5, 94.
* Trop.
* Dentis extrahere, i. e. by medicinal means, Plin. 32, 7, 26, § 79 (cf.: dentem evellere, i. e. by force).
* Of cuppingglasses: sanguinem extrahere,Cels. 2, 11 init.
* In gen., to withdraw, extricate, release; to draw out, extract, eradicate: urbem ex periculis maximis,Cic. Sest. 4, 11; cf.: me inde,Ter. Ph. 1, 4, 3: nescis, Parmeno, Quantum hodie profueris mihi et ex quanta aerumna extraxeris,id. Hec. 5, 4, 36: imbecilliores adjuvabit malisque opinionibus extrahet,Sen. Ep. 95 med.: se rebus humanis,to take one's own life,Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 3: (scelera) ex occultis tenebris in lucem,Liv. 39, 16, 11: secreta mentis (verberum vis),Sen. Hippol. 884: Epicurus ex animis hominum extraxit radicitus religionem,Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 121; id. Ac. 2, 34, 108: cf.: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus philosophia se extracturam pollicetur,id. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.
* In partic., of time, to draw out, protract, prolong: res variis calumniis,Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: se tergiversando in adventum ejus rem extracturum,Liv. 34, 46, 5: certamen usque ad noctem,id. 4, 41, 5: pugnam in posterum,Tac. A. 4, 73: bellum in tertium annum,Liv. 3, 2, 2: somnum plerumque in diem,Tac. G. 22: has materias in infinitum,Quint. 4, 1, 43: dicendi morā dies,Caes. B. C. 1, 32, 3: triduum disputationibus,id. ib. 1, 33, 3: diem de die,Sen. Ben. 2, 5 fin.: primum tempus noctis,Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 5: aestatem,id. B. G. 5, 22, 4; Liv. 32, 9, 10 et saep.: eludi atque extrahi se multitudo putare,Liv. 2, 23, 13; cf.: populumque ducesque incertis,Stat. Th. 3, 575: mentem,id. ib. 1, 323.

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