To deliuer: to set at libertle: to bring out of bondage. Liberatus sum Daue hodie tua opera. Terent. I am rid out of dauuger this day Dauus by thy helpe and diligence. Liberauit illum creditoribus. Sen. He hath disparthed him from his creditours. Liberare se ære alieno. Cic. To pay his debts. Liberare cura. Cic. To put out of care. Liberare custodijs corporis. Cic. To set at Ilbertie from the prison of this body. Liberara dominatu regio. Respub. Cic. Liberare animos errore. Cic. To put mens minds out of errout. Liberare infamia. Cic. To deliuer front. Liberare inoidia magna & inueterata. Ciceto. To rid out of great and old hateed that he was in. Liberare aliquem meru. Terent. To put out of feare. Liberatis obsidione, abominandoq; exilio, totis castris. Plin. Liberare opere magno. Cic. To deliuer from great labour. Periculo liberare. Cn. Magnus Matcello. To put out of daunget. Liberare tædio. Plin. Ensem liberat vagina. Ouid. He draweth out his sword. Voto liberari, Vide VOTVM. Culpæ aliquem liberare. Liu. To shew one to be blamelesse or guiltlesse. Liberare fidem suam. Cic. To doe that he promised.

I. Lit., to release from slavery, to free, manumil: amicas emite, liberate, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 22: liberem ego te? id. Men. 5, 7, 35: servos, Caes. B. C. 3, 9: sese, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182: aliquem vindictā liberare, Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4.—

II. Transf.

A. In gen., to free, release, extricate, deliver (cf. levo) a person or thing from something (an obligation, debt, difficulty, etc.); constr.: aliquem (aliquid) ab aliqua re, with simple abl.; less freq. with gen.

a. With personal objects.

(a). With ab: teque item ab eo vindico ac libero, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1: se a Venere, to release one's self from one's duty to Venus, id. Div. in Caecil. 17, 53.—

(b). With abl.: divortio te liberabo incommodis, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38: defensionum laboribus senatoriisque muneribus liberatus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 1: aliquem culpā, id. Att. 13, 22, 3: aliquem invidiā, id. N. D. 1, 6, 13: aliquem suspicione crudelitatis, id. Fam. 1, 2, 3: aliquem magnā sollicitudine, id. Att. 6, 1, 10; cf.: populum metu, id. Rep. 1, 16, 25: liberatus omni perturbatione animi, id. ib. 1, 17, 28: aliquem periculo, Caes. B. C. 3, 83: obsidione, id. B. G. 4, 19: se aere alieno, to pay a debt, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 4.—

(g). With gen.: aliquem culpae, Liv. 41, 19: voti liberari, id. 5, 28.—

(d). With ex: multos ex incommodis pecuniā, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, 23.—(e) With simple acc.: vectigales multos ac stipendiarios liberavit, exempted from taxes, Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 10: Volusii liberandi, meum fuit consilium, to release from obligation, id. Fam. 5, 20, 4: Buthrotios cum Caesar decreto suo liberavisset, viz., from a division of their lands, id. Att. 16, 16, C, 11: amotusque post triumphum abdicatione dictaturae terror et linguam et animos liberaverat hominum, Liv. 6, 16, 8: (debitores) capitis deminutione liberantur, i. e. from debt, Gai. Inst. 3, 84 al.—

b. With inanim. and abstr. objects: eum (mundum) ab omni erratione liberavit, Cic. Univ. 6; cf. below, at the end of this number: quorum linguae sic inhaererent, ut loqui non possent, eae scalpello resectae liberarentur, would be set free, id. Div. 2, 46, 96: liberare agros, to free or exempt from taxes, id. Agr. 1, 4, 10: publica liberare, id. ib. 2, 21, 57; cf.: liberari omnia Asiae emporia portusque, Liv. 32, 33: liberata vectigalia, id. 41, 28: fundum alii obligatum liberare, Dig. 18, 1, 41: liberare fidem, to discharge one's promise, keep one's word, Cic. Fl. 20, 47: liberare promissa, to cancel promises, to make them void and of no effect, id. Off. 1, 10, 33: nomina, to settle debts, Liv. 7, 21: impensam, to clear or repay expenses, Col. 3, 3.—Of an abstr. object: divinum animum corpore liberatum cogitatione complecti, Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51.—

B. In partic.

1. To absolve or acquit in a court of justice (syn.: absolvo, solvo): aliquem, opp. condemnare, Cic. Clu. 22, 60: aliquem crimine aliquo, id. Verr. 2, 2, 29, 71: liberatur Milo, non eo consilio profectus esse, is acquitted of the charge of having undertaken a journey with the design, etc., id. Mil. 18, 47: reum a judicibus hoc defensionis modo liberari non posse, Quint. 7, 4, 20.—Very rarely with acc. of the charge: crimen libidinis confessio intemperantiae liberavit, Val. Max. 8, 1, 12.—

2. To clear, i. e. to pass, traverse, cross over a place without hinderance (post - Aug.): flumen, Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3; 4, 7, 28; Hyg. Fab. 257: angustias freti, Front. Strat. 1, 4, 13: limen, Petr. 136.—

3. Templa liberata, freed from buildings that obstructed the view, i. e. having a free prospect, Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21.