I.praes. subj. exedint, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32. Post-class. form of the praes. ind. exedit, for exest, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10; Seren. Sammon. 7), v. a., to eat up, devour, consume (class.).
I. Lit.: “intestina,” Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32: “frumentum quod curculiones exesse incipiunt,” Varr. R. R. 1, 63, 1; Col. 1, 6, 16: “serpens, qui jecur ejus exesset,” Hyg. Fab. 55.—Proverb.: tute hoc intristi; “tibi omne est exedendum,” as you have cooked, so you must eat, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; cf.: “tibi quod intristi, exedendum est,” Aus. Idyll. Prooem. 5.—
B. Transf., in gen., to eat up, consume, destroy: “deus id eripiet, vis aliqua conficiet aut exedet,” Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37: “exesa scabra rubigine pila,” Verg. G. 1, 495: “flammeus ardor Silvas exederat,” Lucr. 5, 1253: “molem (undae),” Curt. 4, 2: “apparebat epigramma exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis fere,” effaced by time, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66: “multa monumenta vetustas exederat,” Curt. 3, 4: “exesae arboris antrum,” rotten, hollow, Verg. G. 4, 44: “dens exesus,” Cels. 7, 12: “exesa vis luminis,” consumed, Tac. H. 4, 81: “urbem nefandis odiis,” to destroy, Verg. A. 5, 785: “rem publicam,” Tac. A. 2, 27: “quid te futurum censes, quem assidue exedent,” i. e. devour, consume thy property, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 53. —
II. Trop., to consume, prey upon, corrode: “aegritudo exest animum,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; cf.: “accedunt aegritudines, molestiae, maerores, qui exedunt animos,” id. Fin. 1, 18, 59; 1, 16, 51: “illi beati, quos nullae aegritudines exedunt, etc.,” id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16: “maestas exedit cura medullas,” Cat. 66, 23 et saep.: “exspectando exedor miser atque exenteror,” Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 1.
