Excerpo, excerpis, excerpsi, excerptum, excérpere. Ter. To pike out: to gather here and there the best of things.Quod boni est excerpis, dicis quod mali est. Te. Thou pikest out that is good.De aliquo numero aliquid excerpere.Cic.To take or choose out. Numero aliquorum se excerpere. Hor. To withdraw himselfe out of a company.Excerpe te vulgo Pauline clarissime. Sene. Withdrawe your selfe from resorting with the common people.Excerpens. Particip. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-cerpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [carpo], to pick or take out.I.Lit.: semina pomis, Hor. S. 2, 3, 272.—II.Trop. (class.). A.To pick out, choose, select, gather: non solum ex malis eligere minima oportere, sed etiam excerpere ex ipsis, si quid inesset boni, Cic. de Off. 3, 1, 3: quod quisque (scriptorum) commodissime praecipere videbatur, excerpsimus,
made extracts
,
selections
, id. Inv. 2, 2, 4; so, verba ex Originibus Catonis, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 86: nihil umquam legit, quod non excerperet, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 10; cf. id. ib. 6, 20, 5; Sen. Ep. 33, 2; Quint. 9, 1, 24; 10, 2, 13: ex libris qui chronici appellantur ... easque excerptiones digerere, Gell. 17, 21, 1 et saep.: paucos enim, qui sunt eminentissimi, excerpere in animo est,
to single out
,
make prominent
, Quint. 10, 1, 45; 7, 1, 29.—Hence, subst.: excerptum, i, n., an extract, selection, excerpt from a book or writing: ex Gorgiā Platonis, Quint. 2, 15, 24: Coelianum. M. Aurel. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 9.—Plur., M. Aurel. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 2, 5; Sen. Ep. 33, 3.—B.To take out, strike or leave out, except, omit: non enim, si est facilius, eo de numero quoque est excerpendum, Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 47; cf.: me illorum excerpam numero, Hor. S. 1, 4, 40: tu id, quod boni est, excerpis: dicis, quod mali est, Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 18.—C.To withdraw one's self: se consuetudini hominum, Sen. Ep. 5: se vulgo, id. Brev. Vit. 18; and simply se, id. Ep. 18.