Eluo, éluis, élui, elûtum, pen. prod. elúere. Plau. To wash out: to rinse: to make clcane: to purge.Vascula eluere.Plaut.To wash cleane, or rinse.Corpus eluere.Ouid.Eluere maculam vestium. Plin. To wash out a spotte stained in garments.Sanguinem profusum eluere.Cic. Eluere vitæ sordes & animi labes, per translationem. Cice. To purge or washe away filthinesse of life and corruption of minde.Crimen eluere.Ouid.To cleare himselfe of a crime laydeto his charge.Curas eluere. Horat. To take or put away care.Labem pudoris eluere.Senec.Eluere maculas furtorum suorum sanguine sociorum. Cice. To washe away the infamie of his owne robberies, &c.Eluere ex aqua. Cels. To wash in water.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-lŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to wash out, rinse out; to wash off, wash clean (class.). I.Lit.: vascula, Plaut. Aul. 2, 3, 3: patinas, id. Capt. 4, 2, 66: argentum (the silver vessels, the plate), id. Ps. 1, 2, 29: bacas immundas, Col. 12, 52, 21; 6, 3, 4: os, Cels. 3, 4: maculas vestium, Plin. 20, 8, 28, 72; cf. Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 71; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 46; id. Sest. 29, 63: purpureum colorem omnibus undis, Lucr. 6, 1077; so, colorem, Quint. 1, 1, 5; cf. atramentum, Plin. 35, 6, 25, 43: aliquid ex aqua, Cels. 7, 21 fin.: corpus, Ov. M. 11, 141: se asinino lacte, Cels. 4, 24 et saep.—B.Transf.1.To purify: vasa eluto auro, of pure gold (al. elato), Capitol. Pertin. 8.—2.To clear, to lay bare: Ponticum Phasim et stagna Maeotidis (sc. avibus), Col. 8, 8, 10.—b. In Plautus (like elavo, II.), to strip one's self of, to get rid of, squander one's property, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 21 sq.; id. Stich. 5, 2, 21; of money lavished on expensive baths: elutum in balineis, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5.—II.Trop., to dispose of, remove, clear, or wash away, etc.: ut centurionum profusus sanguis eluatur: num elui praedicatio crudelitatis potest?Cic. Phil. 12, 6; cf.: infectum scelus sub gurgite vasto, Verg. A. 6, 742: crimen, Ov. M. 11, 141: vitia, Quint. 2, 3, 2 et saep.: tales amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae, i. e.
to get rid of
, Cic. Lael. 21; cf.: amara curarum (cadus), Hor. C. 4, 12, 20.—B.To cleanse, purify, make pure or clear: mentes maculatas crimine, Sil. 11, 200; cf. Sen. Ep. 59: mentem, Lact. 5, 19, 34.—Hence, ēlūtus, a, um, P. a., washed out, i. e. watery, insipid; in the comp.: irriguo nihil est elutius horto (= magis fatuum), Hor. S. 2, 4, 16: (spodi) elutior vis est, Plin. 34, 13, 33, 129.