Perpurgo, perpurgas, perpurgare. Ci. To make al cleane or neate.Perpurgatis ambo damus tibi operam auribus.Plaut.Perpurgare locum aliquem, per translationem. Ci. To dissolue al doubtes or difficulties shat be in a matter.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-purgo (ante-class. perpūrĭgo, v. Ritschl, Opusc. 2, 426 sqq.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to cleanse or purge thoroughly, to make quite clean.I.Lit.: alvum, Cato, R. R. 115: se, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127: perpurgata ulcera, Cels. 5, 26, n. 36: perpurigatis auribus, i. e.
with the greatest attention
, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 179.—II.Trop., to clear up, explain: locus orationis perpurgatus ab iis, qui ante me dixerunt, Cic. Mur. 26, 54: crimina, id. Scaur. 8, 14; cf. id. Div. 2, 1, 2.—Absol.: de dote tanto magis perpurga,