ex-ăro — Lewis & Short
ex-ăro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to plough or dig up (class.).
I Lit.: radices, Cato. R. R. 61; id. ap. Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 127; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 46:
sepulcra,Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 58:
terminos (with deicere),Dig. 10, 1, 4, § 4:
deum, puerum,Cic. Div. 2, 23, 51; 2, 38, 80. —
II Transf.
A To raise, produce by tillage:
tantum frumenti, ut, etc.,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38; cf.
Zumpt,ib. 2, 3, 47.—
B In gen., to plough, till, cultivate, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 1; Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 9:
locum de integro,Col. 2, 18, 3:
agrum,Pall. Aug. 1:
viam publicam,Dig. 43, 10, 4;
with effodere mala,i. e. to dig up the earth about them, Pall. Febr. 25, 14.—Poet.: cum rugis vetus frontem senectus exaret, furrows, wrinkles, * Hor. Epod. 8, 4 (cf. aro).—
C To write, note, set down something on tablets (used by Cic. only in his letters): undecimo die postquam a te discesseram, hoc literularum exaravi, Cic. Att. 12, 1; cf. id. ib. 13, 38; id. Fam. 12, 20 fin.:
novum prooemium,id. Att. 16, 6 fin.:
ad te harum exemplum in codicillis,id. Fam. 9, 26; cf.:
binos codicillos,Suet. Oth. 10:
id ipsum his versibus exaravi, etc.,Plin. Ep. 7, 4, 5; cf.:
librum tertium Aesopi stilo,Phaedr. 3, prol. 29:
versus,Suet. Ner. 52; Vulg. Job, 19, 23.—
D Latera, to flog severely, Amm. 15, 7, 5.