The corpus record — Latin

excanto

excanto · v. a

to charm out

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Where it lives

Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k

What it meant

ex-canto — Lewis & Short

ex-canto, āvi, ātum (excantassit = excantaverit, Tab. XII. ap. 1, v. a.,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 7, 2),

I to charm out or forth, to bring out by enchantment (not in Cic. or Caes.), Varr. ap. Non. 102, 11; Lucil. and Plaut. ib.; * Prop. 3, 3, 49 (4, 2, 49 M.); * Hor. Epod. 5, 45; Luc. 6, 686; 9, 931: QVI FRVGES EXCANTASSIT, i. e. had removed them by enchantment into another field, Tab. XII. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf. Sen. Q. N. 4, 7, 2; Serv. Verg. E. 8, 99; Aug. C. D. 8, 19.

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