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.

Wine or other liquor wherin hearbs or other things be steeped for a time: Phisitions call it an infusion. vt, Absynthij dilutum. Plin. The infusion of worme woode. Diluuio. diluuias, diluuiâre. Lucret. To ouerflow and drowne a countrey.

Alayed: tempered. Color dilutus. Gell. A weake and vnperfite colour. Labella diluta moltis guttis. Catul. Lippes wette or washed with many droppes. Mella falerno diluta. Horat. Honie tempred with wine. Diluta potio. Cels. A drincke tempred with wine and water. Vinum dilutum Mart. Wine alayed with water. Vrina diluta. Cels. A thinne white vrine not coloured.

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,

A. Lit.: potio (opp. meraca), Cels. 1, 3; cf.: vinum dilutius pueris, sonibus meracius, id.; and: potio quam dilutissima, id.: solum dilutius, Plaut. 17, 20, 33, 144; hence also subst., dīlūtum, i, n., a liquid in which something has been dissolved, a solution, Plin. 27, 7, 28, 46: rubor, id. 22, 22, 46, 92: amethystus dilutior, paler, id. 37, 9, 40, 122; colos, id. 37, 5, 18, 67: urina, Cels. 2, 6: odor, slight, faint (opp. acutus), Plin. 15, 28, 33, 110 et saep.—

2. Transf., of a wine-drinker, drunk (opp. abstemius), Aus. Ep. a. Id. 11.—

B. Trop. (borrowed from colors), clear, manifest: dilutior erat defectus, Amm. 20, 3.— Adv.: dīlūtē, slightly, weakly: Gallos post haec dilutius esse poturos, Cic. Font. Fragm. ap. Amm. 15, 12, 2; acc. to others an adj., sc. vinum.