I.pluperf. remorant, Hor. S. 2, 1, 71; Sil. 11, 175; inf. remosse, Lucr. 3, 69; perf. remorunt, Ov. Ib. 240), v. a., to move back, draw back; to take away, set aside, withdraw, remove (freq. and class.; syn.: amolior, repono, segrego).
I. Lit.: “tolle hanc patinam, remove pernam,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 163 sq.: “pecora,” Caes. B. C. 1, 48: “equos,” Sall. C. 59, 1: “equos ex conspectu,” Caes. B. G. 1, 25: “dapes,” Ov. M. 8, 571: “mensam,” id. ib. 13, 676: “frena, Hor.S.2, 7, 74: tegimen,” to lay aside, Ov. M. 1, 674: “Aurora removerat ignes,” had driven away, id. ib. 4, 81: “monstra,” id. ib. 5, 216: “remoto atque ablegato viro,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 82: “remotis arbitris,” id. Off. 3, 31, 112: “custode remoto,” Hor. A. P. 161: “remoto Hannibale,” Just. 31, 5, 1: “quae jam infantem removerit,” i. e. has weaned, Plin. 28, 7, 21, § 72: “naves longas ab onerariis navibus,” Caes. B. G. 4, 25: “cupas furcis ab opere,” id. B. C. 2, 11: “castra sex milia ab oppido,” Liv. 9, 24: “quae natura occultavit ab oculis,” Cic. Off. 1, 35, 127: “bracchia a latere modice,” Quint. 11, 3, 159: “comas a fronte ad aures,” Ov. M. 5, 488: “se a corpore,” Lucr. 3, 895: “se a vulgo,” Hor. S. 2, 1, 71: “parvos natos a se,” id. C. 3, 5, 43: “se a conspectu, Auct. B. Afr. 62: plura de medio (with auferre),” Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 23: “togam inde,” Quint. 11, 3, 124: “oculos,” Cic. Balb. 5, 11: “arcanis oculos profanos,” Ov. M. 7, 256: “tactu viriles virgineo manus,” id. ib. 13, 467: “toto sumus orbe remoti,” id. P. 2, 2, 123: mensae remotae, Verg. A. 1, 216; Ov. M. 13, 676: “cum paulum ab legionibus nostros removissent,” Caes. B. G. 5, 16: “aliquem ab exercitu, Auct. B. Afr. 54: praesidia ex iis locis, quae, etc.,” Cic. Fam. 16, 12, 3: “se in montes ex urbe,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 16: “ex oculis manus,” Ov. M. 9, 390: “ut propinquis suis ultra ducentesimum lapidem removeretur,” Tac. A. 2, 50.—
II. Trop.: “removete moram,” Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 37; Quint. 8, prooem. § 3;: “sumptum removit,” Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 27: “hominum conscientiā remotā,” id. Fin. 2, 9, 28: “remotā subtilitate disputandi,” id. ib. 2, 38, 98: “omnia removistis, avaritiam, imperitiam, superbiam,” Sall. J. 85, 45; cf.: “remoto metu,” id. ib. 87, 4; Tac. Agr. 15: “remoto joco,” jesting aside, Cic. Fam. 7, 11, 3: “remoto personarum complexu,” Quint. 3, 6, 57; 12, 11, 30: “formam anilem,” Ov. M. 6, 43: “soporem,” id. ib. 6, 493: “obstantia fata,” id. ib. 13, 373: remove istaec, no more of that (i. e. do not speak of it), Cic. ap. Suet. Caes. 49 fin.: “aliquem ab studio, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 14: aliquem ab republicā,” Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Liv. 5, 11: “aliquem ab hoc sermone,” Cic. Lael. 9, 32: “aliquem a legibus (sc. ferendis),” id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: “aliquem a vitā (natura),” Lucr. 5, 350: “se a negotiis publicis,” Cic. Off. 1, 20, 69: “se ab omni ejusmodi negotio,” id. Clu. 15, 43: “se ab amicitiā alicujus,” id. Lael. 21, 77; cf.: “se ab aliquo,” id. Att. 4, 8, b, 3: “se a suspitione,” id. Agr. 2, 8, 22; cf.: “illam suspitionem ab sese removere,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 59, § 136: “invidiam a se,” Ov. M. 12, 626: “vim procul hinc,” id. Am. 1, 14, 29: “(levissima) secerni arbitror oportere atque ex oratione removeri,” Cic. de Or. 2, 76, 309: “quartum (statum) ex generalibus,” Quint. 3, 6, 67: “omnes tribu remoti,” Liv. 45, 15 Drak. N. cr.: “ordine,” Tac. A. 13, 11: “quaesturā,” Suet. Tib. 35: “pudorem thalamis,” Ov. M. 8, 157; cf.: “se artibus suis,” Cic. Or. 2, 5: “se ministerio sceleris,” Ov. M. 3, 645: “aliquem tutelā,” Dig. 26, 10, 4.— Absol., Dig. 26, 10, 3. —
B. To deduct, subtract: “si de quincunce remota est Uncia,” Hor. A. P. 327.—Hence, rĕmōtus , a, um, P. a., removed, i. e. afar off, distant, remote.
A. Lit.: “silvestribus ac remotis locis,” distant, retired, Caes. B. G. 7, 1; cf.: “remoto loco,” Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 2: “terrae,” Lucr. 2, 534: “Gades,” Hor. C. 2, 2, 10: “Britanni,” id. ib. 4, 14, 47: “fontes,” id. S. 2, 4, 94: “gramen,” id. C. 2, 3, 6: “rupes,” id. ib. 2, 19, 1: “domūs pars, i. e. penetralia,” Ov. M. 6, 638. —Neutr. as subst.: “in remoto,” far away, Sen. Q. N. 3, 26, 1: “remotius antrum,” Ov. F. 6, 121: “sedes, remotas a Germanis,” Caes. B. G. 1, 31: “ab arbitris remoto loco,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 31, § 80: “civitas a conspectu remota,” id. ib. 2, 3, 37, § “85: in quibus (studiis) remoti ab oculis populi omne otiosum tempus contrivimus,” id. Lael. 27, 104: “ab aulā,” Ov. M. 11, 764.— With abl.: “civitatis oculis remotus,” Suet. Tib. 42: “quamvis longā regione remotus Absim,” by however great a distance I am removed from you, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 73; cf.: “licet caeli regione remotus,” id. M. 15, 62.—
B. Trop., removed, disconnected, separate, clear, free from, strange to any thing: “quae jam diu gesta et a memoriā remota,” Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39: “genus (narrationum) remotum a civilibus causis,” id. ib. 1, 19, 27: “natura deūm longe remota Sensibus ab nostris,” Lucr. 5, 148: “scientia remota ab justitiā,” Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63: “(defensio) remota ab utilitate rei publicae,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 193: “a verā ratione longe remotum,” Lucr. 6, 853: “(fabula) non a veritate modo, sed etiam a formā veritatis remota,” Quint. 2, 4, 2: “naturae jura a vulgari intellegentiā remotiora,” Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 67: “sermo a forensi strepitu remotissimus,” id. Or. 9, 32; Quint. 11, 1, 89 Spald. N. cr.: “(Vestorium) hominem remotum a dialecticis, in arithmeticis satis versatum,” Cic. Att. 14, 12, 3: “homines maxime ab injuriis nostrorum magistratuum remoti,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160: “a Tib. Gracchi aequitate ac pudore longissime remotus,” id. Agr. 2, 12, 31: “hic a culpā est remotus,” id. Mur. 35, 73: “ab inani laude et sermonibus vulgi,” id. Fam. 15, 4, 13: “a vulgo longe lateque,” Hor. S. 1, 6, 18: “vitio ab omni,” id. A. P. 384: “ab omni minimi errati suspicione remotissimus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40: “(vilica) a vino, ab escis, a superstitionibus remotissima sit,” Col. 12, 1, 3 et saep.—
2. In the philos. lang. of the Stoics, remota, a transl. of the Gr. προηγμένα, things not to be preferred; things to be rejected or postponed (opp. promota), Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52.—Hence, adv.: rĕmōtē , at a distance, afar off, remotely (very rare).—Comp.: “stellae eundem orbem tenentes aliae propius a terris, aliae remotius ab eisdem principiis eadem spatia conficiunt,” Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87.— Sup.: “remotissime,” Aug. Trin. 12, 5.
