To eate as a wornie or sore doth: to eate vp: to gnawe: to sume. Ægritudines ext homines. Cicer. Consne men. Ardor flammeus exederat syluas. . Labor exedit homines. Val. Flac. Wasteth men. Malum exedit attus penitas. Seneca. The sore hache eaten vp the limmes vtterly. Mors lenta iacentis exedit puerile decos. Stat. Long death consumed his beautie. Tineæ exedunt ceput. Claud. Do eate into. Vincula ferri exedere senem. Lucan. The yron chaines had eattu him. Virus exedit artus. Sen. The poyson eateth into. Exedere aliquem. Plaut. Ter. To eate oue out of house and home: to consume al be hath. Argor illum exest. Lucr. Sorrow consumeth him, & gnaweth his bones. Cura exedit medullas. Catul. Care gnaweth one by the very hart roote and consumeth him. Exedunt animos mœrores, conficiúntque cutis, C. Sorow & heaniues gnaweth mens mindes and killeth the with care. Vrbern exedere odijs. Vir. To roote out for harred. Exedor miser. Plaut. My hart is guawen & tormented wretched man that I am. Exêsus pe. pro. Particip. Cic. Eaten vp: consumed: gnawen. Curis exesus. Val. Flac. Consumed with care. Exesæ ædes. Cic. Old worne houses and totten. Antrum exesæ arboris. Vir. A hole in a hollow tree. Exesæ fruges in horreo ventilentur. Col. Situ exesi ligones. Claud. Spades rotten with being hoary & moist. Mons exesus. Virg. Pila exesa rubigine. Virg. Eaten with rust. Pumex exelus. Ouid. Rupes exesæ. Lucan. Scopuli exesi. Sen.

I. Lit.: intestina, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32: frumentum quod curculiones exesse incipiunt, Varr. R. R. 1, 63, 1; Col. 1, 6, 16: serpens, qui jecur ejus exesset, Hyg. Fab. 55.—Proverb.: tute hoc intristi; tibi omne est exedendum, as you have cooked, so you must eat, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; cf.: tibi quod intristi, exedendum est, Aus. Idyll. Prooem. 5.—

B. Transf., in gen., to eat up, consume, destroy: deus id eripiet, vis aliqua conficiet aut exedet, Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37: exesa scabra rubigine pila, Verg. G. 1, 495: flammeus ardor Silvas exederat, Lucr. 5, 1253: molem (undae), Curt. 4, 2: apparebat epigramma exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis fere, effaced by time, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: multa monumenta vetustas exederat, Curt. 3, 4: exesae arboris antrum, rotten, hollow, Verg. G. 4, 44: dens exesus, Cels. 7, 12: exesa vis luminis, consumed, Tac. H. 4, 81: urbem nefandis odiis, to destroy, Verg. A. 5, 785: rem publicam, Tac. A. 2, 27: quid te futurum censes, quem assidue exedent, i. e. devour, consume thy property, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 53. —

II. Trop., to consume, prey upon, corrode: aegritudo exest animum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; cf.: accedunt aegritudines, molestiae, maerores, qui exedunt animos, id. Fin. 1, 18, 59; 1, 16, 51: illi beati, quos nullae aegritudines exedunt, etc., id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16: maestas exedit cura medullas, Cat. 66, 23 et saep.: exspectando exedor miser atque exenteror, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 1.