(verb) : oblittĕro (oblīt-), āvi, ātum, 1, oblino
* To blot out, strike out, erase, obliterate.
* Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare; syn. deleo): oblitterata aerarii monumenta,Tac. A. 13, 23 fin.
* Trop., to blot out of remembrance, consign to oblivion, cause to be forgotten (esp. freq. in post-Aug. prose; principally in Tac.): inimicitias Pelopidarum exstinctā tam oblitteratas memoriā renovare, Att. ap. Non. 146, 30 (oblitterare est obscurefacere et in oblivionem ducere, Non. 146, 28); Cic. Vatin. 6, 15: famam rei,Liv. 39, 20: rem,id. 3, 71: memoriam,id. 21, 29: mandata,Cat. 64, 232: rem silentio,Suet. Tib. 22: ne ritus sacrorum oblitterarentur,Tac. A. 11, 15: conjugia,id. ib. 3, 34: oblitterari in animo,to become forgotten,Liv. 26, 41.

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