The corpus record — Latin

eliquo

eliquo · v. a

To clarify

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

ē-lĭquo — Lewis & Short

ē-lĭquo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I To clarify, strain (post-Aug.).

A Lit.: vinum a faecibus, Col. 12, 27; cf. id. 12, 19, 4; Sen. Q. N. 3, 26.—

B Trop.: aliquid plorabile, to recite slowly or without energy, * Pers. 1, 35: canticum ore tereti semihiantibus labellis, App. Flor. 2, 15, p. 351, 11.—

II (With the notion of the simplex predominating.)

A To cause to flow clearly, to pour forth: fluviales aquas (mons), App. M. 10, p. 253.—Fig.: in unum necesse est summitas magnitudinis aliquetur, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 4.—

B To sift, examine thoroughly: scatebras fluviorum omnes et operta metalla, Prud. Hamart. 260.

In the wild

eliquat Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.260
eliquans Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.30
eliquetur Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.4
eliquat Persius, Saturae 1.35
eliquaret Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.2
eliquat Tertullian, De Pallio 3.p2

Where it came from

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