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ex -sĕco (also exĕco and exĭco , Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 34), cŭi, ctum, 1 (
I.perf. subj. exsecaveris, Cato, R. R. 42), v. a., to cut out or away.
I. Lit. (class.).
II. Trop.: “exsectus et exemptus honoribus senatoriis,Plin. Ep. 2, 12, 3.—Poet., of interest: “quinas hic capiti mercedes exsecat (=extorquet, extundit),cuts out, deducts, Hor. S. 1, 2, 14.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.1.7
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 64.179
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 66
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.33.91
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 65.135
    • Plautus, Rudens, 1.2
    • Suetonius, Nero, 28
    • Horace, Satires, 1.2.14
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.59
    • Lucan, Civil War, 10.134
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 2.12.3
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.24
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 78
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