I.to remove from, to put or take away, to withdraw (esp. with effort or trouble; syn.: dimoveo, abduco, averto, arceo, repello): proprie amovetur saxum de loco, Don. ad Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 14; cf.: “amoveamus lapidem de ore putei,” Vulg. Gen. 29, 8; v. amolior.
I. In gen. (class.): me exinde amovit loco. Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 64: “Ubi erit empta, ut aliquo ex urbe (eam) amoveas,” id. Ep. 2, 2, 94: “testem hanc quom abs te amoveris,” Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 72: “Age, tamen ego hunc amovebo,” id. Ad. 4, 2, 14: “illum ex istis locis amove,” Cic. Att. 1, 12: “juvenes amoverunt eum,” Vulg. Act. 5, 6: “lex Porcia virgas ab omnium civium corpore amovit,” Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12: “Ille est amotus,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 64: “amoto custode,” Prop. 1, 11, 15: “amotis longius ceteris,” Curt. 7, 1: “alia amovimus ab hostium oculis,” Liv. 5, 51: “imagines ex bibliothecis amovere,” Suet. Calig. 34; id. Caes. 68; id. Ner. 47.—Hence: se amovere, to retire, withdraw: “te hinc amove,” off with you! Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 33: “e coetu se amovissent,” Liv. 3, 38: “qui memet finibus umquam amōrim Ausoniae,” Sil. 17, 224: “statuit repente recedere seque e medio quam longissime amovere,” Suet. Tib. 10.—Trop. of abstract ideas, to put away, cast off, etc.: “segnitiem amove,” Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6: “suspitionem ab aliquo,” id. Trin. 3, 3, 54: “socordiamque ex pectore,” id. Ps. 1, 2, 11; so, “crapulam,” id. ib. 5, 1, 35: “amoto metu,” Ter. And. 1, 2, 10: “qui istum amorem ex animo amoveas,” id. ib. 2, 1, 7: “opinionem,” id. ib. 3, 2, 30: “misericordiam,” Vulg. 2 Macc. 6, 16: “amove malitiam a carne,” ib. Eccl. 11, 10: “bellum,” Liv. 5, 35: “amoto quaeramus seria ludo,” jesting aside, Hor. S. 1, 1, 27 al.—Poet., of time, to take with itself: quaecumque vetustate amovet aetas, * Lucr. 1, 225.—
II. Esp.
A. In and after the Aug. per., to take away by stealth, to steal (euphemist. for furari, furtum facere): “boves Per dolum amotas,” Hor. C. 1, 10, 10: “si filia familiares res amoverit,” Dig. 25, 2, 3: “aliquid ex heredidate,” ib. 29, 2, 70 al.—
