I.to blot out, strike out, erase, obliterate.
I. Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare; “syn. deleo): oblitterata aerarii monumenta,” Tac. A. 13, 23 fin.—
II. Trop., to blot out of remembrance, consign to oblivion, cause to be forgotten (esp. freq. in post-Aug. prose; principally in Tac.): inimicitias Pelopidarum exstinctā tam oblitteratas memoriā renovare, Att. ap. Non. 146, 30 (oblitterare est obscurefacere et in oblivionem ducere, Non. 146, 28); Cic. Vatin. 6, 15: “famam rei,” Liv. 39, 20: “rem,” id. 3, 71: “memoriam,” id. 21, 29: “mandata,” Cat. 64, 232: “rem silentio,” Suet. Tib. 22: “ne ritus sacrorum oblitterarentur,” Tac. A. 11, 15: “conjugia,” id. ib. 3, 34: “oblitterari in animo,” to become forgotten, Liv. 26, 41.
