I.perf. sync. exclusti for exclusisti, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 18) [cludo, claudo], to shut out, exclude; to cut off, remove, separate from any thing (class.).
I. Lit.
1. In gen.: aliquem a portu et perfugio, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 3: “aliquem ab re frumentaria,” Caes. B. G. 7, 55, 9: “aliquem ab acie,” id. B. C. 2, 41, 6: “Gaditani Poenos moenibus excluserunt,” Cic. Balb. 17, 39: “nulla exclusura dolentes Janua,” Tib. 2, 3, 73.—With inanimate objects: “spissa ramis laurea fervidos Excludet ictus (solis),” Hor. C. 2, 15, 10: “aquam quae exundante palude in agrum refluere solet,” Dig. 39, 3, 1: “exclusere diem telis,” shut out, obscured, Stat. Th. 8, 412: “Euphrates Armeniae regiones a Cappadocia excludens,” separating, Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 83.—
2. Esp., to shut out, refuse to receive a visitor: “quo pacto excludi, quaeso, potis est planius, quam exclusus nunc sum,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 5: “ego excludor, ille recipitur,” Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 79; id. ib. 1, 1, 4: “aliquem foras,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 30; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 18: “quae me non excludet ab se, sed apud se occludet domi,” Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 108; cf.: “ut ab illa excludar, huc concludar,” Ter. And. 2, 3, 12; Hor. S. 2, 3, 260; Ov. Am. 1, 8, 78; cf.: priusquam Caesar me abs te excludere posset, Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 B. 1.—
B. Transf.
1. To drive out, to put, press, thrust, or take out: “excludito mihi hercle oculum, si dedero,” i. e. to knock out, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 95: “vel oculum exclude,” Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 96: “gemmam,” Dig. 10, 4, 6: “liquorem,” Scrib. Comp. 84: “pallio caput,” Petr. 32, 2.—
b. In partic. of birds, to hatch their young: “volucres Ova relinquebant, exclusae tempore verno,” Lucr. 5, 802; cf.: “gallinae avesque reliquae, cum ex ovis pullos excluserint, etc.,” Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129: “pullos,” id. ib. 2, 48, 124; Col. 8, 5, 7; 8, 14, 11; Suet. Tib. 14 al.—And transf., by way of pun, to the pupils of the rhetorician Corax (raven): “Coracem istum patiamur pullos suos excludere in nido, qui evolent, clamatores odiosi ac molesti,” Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81.—
2. To make prominent (eccl. Lat.), = eminere, Aug. in Psa. 67, § 39; Vulg. Psa. 67, 31; cf. Aug. Spir. et Litt. § 17.—*
3. To close, complete: “volumen,” Stat. S. 2 praef. fin.
II. Trop., to exclude, except, remove, hinder, prevent: “Crassus tres legatos decernit, nec excludit Pompeium,” Cic. Fam. 1, 1, 3: “excludi ab omni doctrina,” id. de Or. 1, 11, 46; cf.: “exclusit illum a re publica,” id. Phil. 5, 11, 29: “ab hereditate fraterna excludi,” id. Clu. 11, 31; cf. “also: ne anni tempore a navigatione excluderetur,” Caes. B. G. 5, 23, 5: “ut reditu in Asiam excluderetur,” Nep. Them. 5, 1: “exceptione excludi,” Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 168: “multas actiones praetoriis exceptionibus,” id. Inv. 1, 19, 57: “angustiis temporis excluduntur omnes,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 148: “tempore exclusus,” hindered, prevented, Caes. B. G. 6, 31, 1: “diei tempore exclusus,” id. ib. 7, 11, 5: “si qui se in hoc judicium forte projecerint, excluditote eorum cupiditatem,” Cic. Cael. 9, 22: servitutem, Lucil. ap. Non. 301, 14: “consuetudinem libere dicendi,” Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19.—Hence, * exclūsus , a, um, P. a., shut out, locked out: “nunc ego sum exclusissimus,” Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 24.
