Diluo, díluis, dílui, dilûtum, pen. prod. dilúere. Cæs. To wash or make cleane: to put away: to release: to dissolue: to declare or explicate: to alay as wine with water: to purge: to discharge a crime orfault laide to one.Pectora sudor diluerat. Valer. Washed.Diluere aceto. Celsus. To wash or rinse with vineger. Diluere.Virg.To temper or mixe: to alay.Vnguenta lachrymis diluere.Ouid.To temper with teares.Diluis helleborum: id est, temperas medicamentis. Pers. Diluere. per trãslationem. Pla. Ci. To declare: to explicate.Mihi quod rogaui dilue.Plaut.Cura diluitur mero. Oui. Care is washed away with wine.Diluere crimen.Cicer.To cleare himselfe of a faulte laide against him.Inferre crimina, & Diluere, contraria. Author ad Heren.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dī-lŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to wash to pieces, wash away; to dissolve, dilute, cause to melt away; to wash, drench (freq. and class.). I.Lit.A. Ingen.: ne aqua lateres diluere posset, Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 6: sata laeta boumque labores, Verg. G. 1, 326; cf.: sanguine diluitur tellus, is soaked, Furius Antias ap. Gell. 18, 11, 4: unguenta lacrimis, Ov. P. 1, 9, 53: alvum helleboro, Gell. 17, 15, 4: vulnus cruris aceto, Petr. 136, 7; cf.: ulcus ovi albore, Scrib. Comp. 24: colorem, i. e.
to wash out, weaken
, Plin. 31, 7, 42, 91; Ov. P. 4, 10, 62: amnes diluuntur, Plin. 31, 4, 29, 52.—B. In partic., to dissolve any thing in a liquid, i. e. to temper, dilute, mix: absinthia, Lucr. 4, 224; 6, 930; cf. venenum, Liv. 40, 4 fin.: helleborum, Pers. 5, 100: vinum, i. e.
to dilute with water
, Mart. 1, 107; v. under P. a.: favos lacte et miti Baccho (i. e. vino), Verg. G. 1, 344; cf.: Hymettia mella Falerno, Hor. S. 2, 2, 16: insignem bacam aceto, id. ib. 2, 3, 241: medicamentum aceto, Cels. 5, 20; Scrib. Comp. 158; 261 al.: circaeam in vino, Plin. 27, 8, 38, 60: rutam cum mero, Col. 6, 4, 2: medicamentum ex aqua, Scrib. Comp. 247 et saep.II.Trop.A.To weaken, lessen, impair; to do away with, remove: adversariorum confirmatio diluitur aut infirmatur aut elevatur, Cic. Inv. 1, 42: res leves infirmare ac diluere (opp. confirmare), id. Rosc. Am. 15; Quint. 9, 2, 80: molestias omnes (c. c. extenuare), Cic. Tusc. 3, 16; cf.: curam multo mero, Ov. A. A. 238: seriorem horam mero, id. H. 19, 14: vitium ex animo (Bacchus), Prop. 3, 17, 6 (4, 16, 6 M.): crimen, Cic. Mil. 27; id. Brut. 80, 278; Liv. 4, 14; Quint. 7, 10, 12 (opp. obicere); 9, 2, 53 (c. c. negare) et saep.; cf. also Cic. Cael. 15; Liv. 45, 10; Quint. 4, 2, 26; Ov. R. Am. 695 et saep.: invidiam aliqua cavillatione, Suet. Vesp. 23: injurias aere pauco,
to atone for
, Gell. 20, 1, 31: omnes affectuum vires, Quint, 11, 1, 52: ejus auctoritatem, Sen. Ep. 29: memoriam tam praeclarae rei, Val. Max. 9, 2, 1.— B. Analog. with its synon. dissolvere, to solve a difficulty, i. e. to explain: mi, quod rogavi, dilue, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 64.—Hence,