To draw out with force: to plucke vp by the rootes: to get and come to the knowledge of things by labour and study. Eruere & ostendere populis aliquid. Ouid. Eruere atque proferre in lucem. Ho. With paine to search out and bring to light and knowledge. Protrahere & eruere aliquid in luminis oras. Lucr. To draw and bring forth to light and knowledge. Eruere ex tenebris. Cic. Idem. Media turba aliquem eruere. Hor. Prudenter aliquid eruere. Quin. With wisedome to finde out a thing. Bipennibus arborem eruere. Vir. To dig vp a tree with mat tockes. Aurum terra eruere. Ouid. To dig gold out of the earth. Ciuitarem eruere. Tac. To subuert a citie. Eruere curam. Plaut. To put away care. Antiquas domos an ium eruere, id est arbores. Virg. To dyg downe trees. Boreæ quercum flatibus eruunt. Vir. The Northen winds onerthrow okes by the rootes. Genas vngue eruere. Prop. To teare ones cheekes wyth his nailes: to scratch by the face. Latus hasta eruere. Oui. To thrust a speare into his side. Lumina eruere. Sen. To scratch or pul out ones eyes. Eruere memoriam alicuius rei ex vetustate annalium. Cice. To fetch the memory of a thing out of auncient monumÊts and histories. Obrutum eruere. Cic. To fetch out that is ouerwhelmed and hid. Eruere oculum. Plin. To plucke out. Opes & regnum alicuius eruere. Virg. To subuert and ouerthrow ones power and kingdome. Segeten ab radicibus imis eruere. Vir. To dig or pul vp corn by the rootes. Sus rostro semina eruit. Oui. The sowe rooteth vp seede with hir snoute. Syluas manu eruere. Vir. To ouerthrow trees. Vrbem aut aliquem virum eruere. Vir. To subuert. Vrbem è sedibus eruere. Virg. To cast downe to the grownd: cleane to subuert. Eruere, pro perserutari & inuestigando elicere. Sta. vt, Serutari vetera, & ex his ea quæ scriptores Greciæ prodiderunt eruere. Cic. And out of them to picke and get % knowledg of those things, which the Greeke anthors haue put in writing. Cura & cogitatione aliquid eruere. Cic.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: qui sciet, ubi quidque positum sit, quaque eo veniat, is, etiam si quid obrutum erit, poterit eruere, Cic. Fin. 4, 4 fin.; so, aurum terrā, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 53; cf.: caprificos sepulcris, Hor. Epod. 5, 17: gemmam vadis, Mart. 8, 28; Tac. A. 2, 69: segetem ab radicibus imis, Verg. G. 1, 320; cf.: pinum radicibus, id. A. 5, 449 Heyne N. cr.; and: herbam radicitus, Plin. 21, 11, 36, 62: mortuum, Cic. Div. 1, 27 fin.: oculum, Plin. 25, 8, 50, 89; 28, 8, 29, 114: dentes de sinistra parte, id. 28, 8, 27, 95: aquam remis, lo stir up, plough up, Ov. H. 5, 54; cf.: sepulcra (hyaena), Plin. 8, 30, 44, 106.—Poet. in Greek construction: eruitur oculos, his eyes are torn out, Ov. M. 12, 269 (cf. Zumpt, Gram. 458).—

B. Since the Aug. per., sometimes, in partic., to root out, to destroy from the foundation: urbem totam a sedibus, Verg. A. 2, 612; Sil. 3, 2, 13; cf. under II. B. 2.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to draw out, bring out, elicit: inde tamen aliquando (servum fugitivum) eruam, Vat. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 9 fin.; cf. Curt. 4, 14: scrutari locos, ex quibus argumenta eruamus, Cic. de Or. 2, 34, 146; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 13: si quid est, quod indagaris, inveneris, ex tenebris erueris, id. Agr. 1, 3: ex annalium vetustate eruenda est memoria nobilitatis tuae, id. Mur. 7, 16: memoriam, id. de Or. 2, 68, 360: veritatem, Quint. 12, 9, 3: causam rerum et rationem, Plin. 18, 4, 5, 24: sacra recognosces annalibus eruta priscis, Ov. F. 1, 17: mi sicunde potes, erues, qui decem legati Mummio fuerint, Cic. Att. 13, 30, 2 et saep.: fanum erui volo; neque hoc mihi erui potest, I cannot be talked out of it, id. ib. 12, 36.—

B. In partic.

1. To rescue, release: propter difficultatem pecuniariam, qua erui nusquam nisi ex privatorum bonis posset, Cic. Att. 10, 14, 1.—

2. To overthrow, destroy: Trojanas ut opes et lamentabile regnum Eruerint Danai, Verg. A. 2, 5; cf. civitatem, Tac. H. 4, 72: Thracas (with frangere gentem), Stat. Th. 5, 76.