(verb) : sāno, āvi, ātum, 1, sanus
* To make sound, to heal, cure, restore to health (freq. and class.; syn.: curo, medeor, medico).
* Lit.: quam (vomicam) sanare medici non potuerant,Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70: Ptolemaeum,id. Div. 2, 66, 135; so, aliquem,id. Phil. 2, 39, 101 Orell. N. cr.: oculorum tumor sanatur,id. Tusc. 4, 37, 81: tumores,Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 55: volnera,Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 46, § 121; id. Fin. 4, 24, 66; id. Att. 5, 17, 6; Ov. M. 14, 23 (with mederi); Quint. 5, 13, 3: Philoctetae crura Machaon, Phoenicis lumina Chiron,Prop. 2, 1, 59: dolorem,Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 1: dolores sanat medicina,Prop. 2, 1, 57: nidorem,to correct, remove,Plin. 12, 17, 40, § 81: quod ad sanandum me pertineret,Nep. Att. 21, 5: homo sanatus,Ov. R. Am. 113: corpora vix ferro sanantur,id. ib. 527.
* Trop., to heal, correct, restore, repair, allay, quiet, etc. (cf.: redintegro, restauro, confirmo): omnes rei publicae partes aegras et labantes sanare et confirmare,Cic. Mil. 25, 68: quae sanari poterunt, quācumque ratione sanabo,id. Cat. 2, 5, 11: consolatio, quae levare dolorem tuum posset, si minus sanare potuisset,id. Fam. 5, 16, 1: voluntates consceleratas,id. Sull. 9, 28; cf. aliquos (opp. ulcisci),id. Cat. 2, 8, 17: valde me momorderunt epistulae tuae de Atticā nostrā, eaedem tamen sanaverunt,id. Att. 13, 12, 1: mentes,Caes. B. C. 1, 35; 2, 30fin.; cf. mentem,Lucr. 3, 510: cujus causa sanari non potest,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 6: id (incommodum) se celeriter majoribus commodis sanaturum,Caes. B. G. 7, 29: domestica mala,Liv. 6, 18: discordiam,id. 2, 34; Vell. 2, 3, 3: curas salutaribus herbis,Tib. 2, 3, 13; Prop. 1, 10, 17: amara vitae,id. 4 (5), 7, 69: scelus,Sen. Herc. Fur. 1261: unius orationis saluberrimā medicinā sanatus,Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 1: adversarios sanatos cupiunt,Gell. 2, 12, 4.