Deleo, deles, deléui, delêtum. pen. pro. delêre, Leo antiquo verbo, vel Lino, leui. Cic.To deface or put out a thing written: to destroy: to abolish: to kill: to remoue: to put away.Delere epistolam lachrymis.Cic.Delere tectorium & Inducere, contraria. Ci. To pul off parietting, and to pariet newe, or lay on newe. Delere, per translationÊ: vt, Delere vrbem. Pli. To destroy.Delere & seruare, contraria.Cic.Extinguere & funditus delere.Cic.Perimere ac delere omnino.Cic.Aetas deleuit quod olim lusit Anacreon. Hor. Continuance of time abolished that Anacreon made.Aedificia deleta.Cic. Tempus deleuit amorem. Ouid.Delere bella futura.Cic.Ciuem deleri. Sil. That a citizen should be killed.Copias.Cic.To vanquish and discomsite.Delere ex animo. Ter. Deleo omnes dehinc ex animo mulieres. I put out of my minde and phantasie.Delere exercitum & imperatorem. Cæsar. To discomfite: to vanquish and slea an armie.Homines hominum impern deleti.Cic.Men slaine and destroied by warres and violence of men.Morte deleti homines.Cic.Men dead.Vetustas delet famam operis.Ouid.Long continuaunce of time maketh a worke forgotten.Improbitatem delere.Cic.Delere ex animis hominum infamiam iudicij.Liu.To abolish or put the infamie of a iudgement out of meus remÊbraunce.Nummulis acceptis ius ac fas omne delere. Cice. For money and bribes to fordoe all right and equitie.Extincto Senatu. deletílque iudicijs. Cic.Leges delere.Cic.To abolish, &c.Maculam bello aliquo susceptam. Cice. To tenenge an infamie or dishonour receiued in warre.Immortalem memoriam beneficij alicuius.Cic.Memoriam discordiarum obliuione sempiterna.Cicer.To forget discorde and debate for ener: to burie the remembraunee of discorde in perpetuall obliuion.Molestiam delere. Ci. Deleuit mihi omnem molestiam recÊtior epistola. Your latter letters did cleane put al grief out of my minde.Delere nomen Pop. Romani. Cic.To abolish.Obliuio deler.Cic.Forgetfulnesse putteth out of minde.Obliuione delere.Cic.To forget.Delenda opprobria. Sil. Religionem hominum delere.Cic.Rempub.Cic.Cleane to destroy and vndoe.Senatum. Cicero. Orbita iterata priores sulcos delet.Stat.Delere veritatem.Cic.Cauda delere vestigia pedum.Stat.To putte out the print of his feete with his taile.Vrbem cruore & flamma.Cic.To put a citie to smorde and fire.
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dēlĕo, lēvi, lētum, 2 (perf. sync. delerunt, Cic. Red. in Sen. 2, 4: delerit, Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 19; id. Balb. 19, 43: delerat, id. Fam. 15, 5, 3: delerant, id. Sest. 19, 44; plqpf. subj. sync. delesset, Val. Max. 3, 7; Liv. 27, 40, 4; part. perf. dēlĭtus: litterae delitae, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 372: epistola delita, Calvus ib.; Cic. Ep. ap. Prisc. p. 873; cf. 1. aboleo), v. a. [Sanscr. R. lī, adhere; cf.: vi-lī, dissolve; Gr. li/mnh, limh/n, leimw/n, etc.; Lat. lino, perf. levi; polio, etc.; cf. also Gr. limo/s, Lat. lētum], to abolish, destroy, annihilate (freq. and class.; cf.: eluo, diluo, diruo, exstinguo, everto, demolior, destruo). I. Of objects not personal: si certo tempore luna Gignitur et certo deletur tempore rursus, Lucr. 5, 748 (for which, shortly before, nova luna creari ... aborisci): si Juppiter saepe urbes delevit, fruges perdidit, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; so, urbem Numantiam, Carthaginem, etc., Caes. B. C. 2, 12 fin.; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 21; Sall. J. 8, 2; Hor. Od. 3, 6, 14; Ov. M. 13, 219 al.; cf.: magnam Graeciam, Cic. Lael. 4, 13: nomen Aequorum prope ad internecionem, Liv. 9, 45; and, Volscum nomen, id. 3, 8: sepulcrum, Cic. Leg. 2, 26: aedificia, id. Agr. 2, 32 fin. al.: epistulas, id. Fam. 7, 18, 2; so of the blotting out, effacing, obliterating, of writing, id. ib. 14, 3; id. Clu. 14, 41; id. Rosc. Com. 2 fin.; Quint. 10, 3, 31; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 69; id. A. P. 389; Ov. M. 9, 524; Vulg. Apoc. 3, 5: stigmata in facie, Plin. 25, 13, 110, 175: radices, Col. 11, 3, 56 al. —B.Trop., to finish, stop, terminate, end: praesentia, futura bella, Cic. Lael. 3, 11: omnes leges una rogatione, id. Sest. 26: omnia morte, id. Lael, 4, 13: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna, id. Phil. 1, 1; cf. id. Deiot. 13, 37: nec si quid olim lusit Anacreon, Delevit aetas, Hor. Od. 4, 9, 10; trop.: deleo omnes dehinc ex animo mulieres (i. e. memoriam mulierum), Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 5: veritatem (simulatio), Cic. Lael. 25, 92: omnem molestiam, id. Q. Fr. 3, 8: improbitatem (with exstinguere), id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26; cf.: turpitudinem fugae virtute, Caes. B. G. 2, 27: priorem ignominiam, Liv. 39, 30.—II. Of personal objects: dispersis ac paene deletis hostibus,
destroyed, annihilated
, Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; so milit., id. ib. 6, 37, 7; id. B. C. 3, 70; Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 8, 21; id. Mur. 35 fin.; id. Vat. 10, 24 init.; Tac. A. 4, 51; Verg. A. 11, 898 al.: homines morte deletos, Cic. N. D. 1, 15: toto animante deleto, id. Tusc. 1, 37, 90; rarely of a single person: C. Curionem, id. Vat. 10, 24 fin.