I.perf., ātum, 1, v. a. (poet. and in post-class. prose).
1. To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.
A. Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin.— Hence,
2. In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate: “columbam (accipiter),” Verg. A. 11, 723.—
B. Trop.: “opes,” i. e. to dissipate, squander, exhaust, Cod. Just. 3, 29, 7: “fidem,” Ambros. Luc. 4, § 26; cf.: “cum ceteri amnes abluant terras et eviscerent,” Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10.—*
II. To take out of the bowels or interior part.—Transf.: “unio e concha evisceratus,” Sol. 53 fin.
