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col-lŭo (conl- ), lŭi, lūtum, 3, v. a.,
I.to wash thoroughly, wash out, rinse (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.); constr. aliquid, or aliquid aliquā re; rarely aliquid de aliquā re: “metretam amurcā,Cato, R. R. 100; Pers. 1, 18: “os de oleo,Plin. 23, 4, 38, § 77: “decocto,id. 23, 6, 56, § 105: “dentes aquā,id. 20, 6, 23, § 53: “gemma melle colluta,id. 37, 10, 56, § 155.—Poet.: ora, to moisten, wet, i. e. to quench thirst, * Ov. M. 5, 447 (cf.: “abluere sitim,Lucr. 4, 877).—*
II. Absol., to wash up (earth) by the waves, Dig. 41, 1, 30, § 2.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.447
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.877
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.53
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.77
    • Persius, Saturae, 1
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