I.to cleanse or purge thoroughly, to make quite clean.
I. Lit.: “alvum,” Cato, R. R. 115: “se,” Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127: “perpurgata ulcera,” Cels. 5, 26, n. 36: “perpurigatis auribus,” i. e. with the greatest attention, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 179.—
II. Trop., to clear up, explain: “locus orationis perpurgatus ab iis, qui ante me dixerunt,” Cic. Mur. 26, 54: “crimina,” id. Scaur. 8, 14; cf. id. Div. 2, 1, 2.—Absol.: “de dote tanto magis perpurga,” settle, arrange, Cic. Att. 12, 12, 1.