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dēlĕo , lēvi, lētum, 2 (
I.perf. sync. delerunt, Cic. Red. in Sen. 2, 4: “delerit,” Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 19; id. Balb. 19, 43: “delerat,” id. Fam. 15, 5, 3: “delerant,” id. Sest. 19, 44; plqpf. subj. sync. delesset, Val. Max. 3, 7; Liv. 27, 40, 4; part. perf. dēlĭtus: litterae delitae, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 372: epistola delita, Calvus ib.; Cic. Ep. ap. Prisc. p. 873; cf. 1. aboleo), v. a. Sanscr. R. lī, adhere; cf.: vi-lī, dissolve; Gr. λίμνη, λιμήν, λειμών, etc.; Lat. lino, perf. levi; polio, etc.; cf. also Gr. λιμός, Lat. lētum, to abolish, destroy, annihilate (freq. and class.; cf.: eluo, diluo, diruo, exstinguo, everto, demolior, destruo).
I. Of objects not personal: “si certo tempore luna Gignitur et certo deletur tempore rursus,” Lucr. 5, 748 (for which, shortly before, nova luna creari ... aborisci): “si Juppiter saepe urbes delevit, fruges perdidit, etc.,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; so, “urbem Numantiam, Carthaginem, etc.,” Caes. B. C. 2, 12 fin.; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 21; Sall. J. 8, 2; Hor. Od. 3, 6, 14; Ov. M. 13, 219 al.; cf.: “magnam Graeciam,” Cic. Lael. 4, 13: “nomen Aequorum prope ad internecionem,” Liv. 9, 45; “and, Volscum nomen,” id. 3, 8: “sepulcrum,” Cic. Leg. 2, 26: “aedificia,” id. Agr. 2, 32 fin. al.: “epistulas,” id. Fam. 7, 18, 2; so of the blotting out, effacing, obliterating, of writing, id. ib. 14, 3; id. Clu. 14, 41; id. Rosc. Com. 2 fin.; Quint. 10, 3, 31; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 69; id. A. P. 389; Ov. M. 9, 524; Vulg. Apoc. 3, 5: “stigmata in facie,” Plin. 25, 13, 110, § 175: “radices,” Col. 11, 3, 56 al. —
B. Trop., to finish, stop, terminate, end: “praesentia, futura bella,” Cic. Lael. 3, 11: “omnes leges una rogatione,” id. Sest. 26: “omnia morte, id. Lael, 4, 13: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna,” id. Phil. 1, 1; cf. id. Deiot. 13, 37: “nec si quid olim lusit Anacreon, Delevit aetas,” Hor. Od. 4, 9, 10; “trop.: deleo omnes dehinc ex animo mulieres (i. e. memoriam mulierum),” Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 5: “veritatem (simulatio),” Cic. Lael. 25, 92: “omnem molestiam,” id. Q. Fr. 3, 8: “improbitatem (with exstinguere),” id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 26; cf.: “turpitudinem fugae virtute,” Caes. B. G. 2, 27: “priorem ignominiam,” Liv. 39, 30.—
II. Of personal objects: “dispersis ac paene deletis hostibus,” destroyed, annihilated, Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; “so milit.,” id. ib. 6, 37, 7; id. B. C. 3, 70; Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 8, 21; id. Mur. 35 fin.; id. Vat. 10, 24 init.; Tac. A. 4, 51; Verg. A. 11, 898 al.: “homines morte deletos,” Cic. N. D. 1, 15: “toto animante deleto,” id. Tusc. 1, 37, 90; “rarely of a single person: C. Curionem,” id. Vat. 10, 24 fin.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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