void+effect

irrĭtus ( inr-), a, um, adj. [2. inratus], invalid.

Lit.

Undecided, unfixed, void, of no effect:

quod modo erat ratum, irritum est,

Ter. Phorm, 4, 7, 58:

testamentum irritum facere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109:

testamentum pro irrito habere,

Suet. Tib. 51; Gai. Inst. 2, 146 sq.; Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 14:

injurias rescindere et irritas facere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

quaeque augur injusta, nefasta, vitiosa, dira, defixerit, inrita infectaque sunto,

id. Leg. 2, 8, 21:

omnia ab iis acta,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

pacta,

Sil. 6, 696:

Tiberii voluntas,

Suet. Calig. 14:

somnia,

of no significance, id. Aug. 91:

Remus aves irritas habuit,

Gell. 13, 14.—

Vain, useless, without effect, ineffectual:

ingrata atque irrita esse omnia intellego,

Plaut. As. 1, 2, 10:

inceptum,

Liv. 29, 35; 24, 19:

dona,

Verg. G. 4, 519:

tela,

id. A. 2, 459:

moenia,

Ov. M. 12, 587:

labor anni,

id. ib. 1, 273; Quint. 12, 1, 13:

verba,

Ov. R. Am. 286:

tua dicta factaque,

Cat. 30, 10:

spes,

Liv. 22, 20; Stat. Th. 10, 45:

oblivio,

Liv. 28, 29:

lingua (Cassandrae),

Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 66:

remedium,

Tac. H. 4, 81:

preces,

Plin. Pan. 26:

ova,

fruitless, infertile, Plin. 10, 58, 79, § 160.—

Transf., of persons, that does or undertakes a thing in vain, to no purpose, without effect.

With gen.:

irritus legationis,

Tac. H. 4, 32:

consilii,

Vell. 2, 63, 2:

propositi,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 3 [p. 1003] ext.:

spei,

vainly hoping, Curt. 6, 5, 31:

incepti,

Sil. 7, 131.—

Absol.:

variis assultibus irritus urget,

Verg. A. 5, 442:

venit et e templis irrita turba domum,

without a response, Tib. 2, 3, 22:

irriti legati remittuntur,

Tac. A. 15, 25:

domum irritus rediit,

Sen. Ben. 6, 11:

discedere irritum putebat,

Curt. 4, 4, 2: irritus qui habebatur, laudabatur, good for nothing, Cat. ap. Gell. 11, 2, 2.— Subst.: irrĭtum, i, n., nothingness, vanity, worthlessness:

spes ad irritum redacta,

Liv. 28, 31:

spes ad irritum cadens,

id. 2, 6:

victoria ad inritum revolvebatur,

Tac. H. 3, 26:

cecidisse in inritum labores,

id. ib. 3, 53 fin.:

irrita dicere,

useless words, Ov. M. 11, 40.— Adv.: irrĭtē, in vain, Cassiod. Var. 1, 4; 12, 2.

irrītus, ūs, m., v. hirritus.

irrĭtus ( inr-), a, um, adj. [2. inratus], invalid.

Lit.

Undecided, unfixed, void, of no effect:

quod modo erat ratum, irritum est,

Ter. Phorm, 4, 7, 58:

testamentum irritum facere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109:

testamentum pro irrito habere,

Suet. Tib. 51; Gai. Inst. 2, 146 sq.; Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 14:

injurias rescindere et irritas facere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

quaeque augur injusta, nefasta, vitiosa, dira, defixerit, inrita infectaque sunto,

id. Leg. 2, 8, 21:

omnia ab iis acta,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

pacta,

Sil. 6, 696:

Tiberii voluntas,

Suet. Calig. 14:

somnia,

of no significance, id. Aug. 91:

Remus aves irritas habuit,

Gell. 13, 14.—

Vain, useless, without effect, ineffectual:

ingrata atque irrita esse omnia intellego,

Plaut. As. 1, 2, 10:

inceptum,

Liv. 29, 35; 24, 19:

dona,

Verg. G. 4, 519:

tela,

id. A. 2, 459:

moenia,

Ov. M. 12, 587:

labor anni,

id. ib. 1, 273; Quint. 12, 1, 13:

verba,

Ov. R. Am. 286:

tua dicta factaque,

Cat. 30, 10:

spes,

Liv. 22, 20; Stat. Th. 10, 45:

oblivio,

Liv. 28, 29:

lingua (Cassandrae),

Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 66:

remedium,

Tac. H. 4, 81:

preces,

Plin. Pan. 26:

ova,

fruitless, infertile, Plin. 10, 58, 79, § 160.—

Transf., of persons, that does or undertakes a thing in vain, to no purpose, without effect.

With gen.:

irritus legationis,

Tac. H. 4, 32:

consilii,

Vell. 2, 63, 2:

propositi,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 3 [p. 1003] ext.:

spei,

vainly hoping, Curt. 6, 5, 31:

incepti,

Sil. 7, 131.—

Absol.:

variis assultibus irritus urget,

Verg. A. 5, 442:

venit et e templis irrita turba domum,

without a response, Tib. 2, 3, 22:

irriti legati remittuntur,

Tac. A. 15, 25:

domum irritus rediit,

Sen. Ben. 6, 11:

discedere irritum putebat,

Curt. 4, 4, 2: irritus qui habebatur, laudabatur, good for nothing, Cat. ap. Gell. 11, 2, 2.— Subst.: irrĭtum, i, n., nothingness, vanity, worthlessness:

spes ad irritum redacta,

Liv. 28, 31:

spes ad irritum cadens,

id. 2, 6:

victoria ad inritum revolvebatur,

Tac. H. 3, 26:

cecidisse in inritum labores,

id. ib. 3, 53 fin.:

irrita dicere,

useless words, Ov. M. 11, 40.— Adv.: irrĭtē, in vain, Cassiod. Var. 1, 4; 12, 2.

irrītus, ūs, m., v. hirritus.

irrĭtus ( inr-), a, um, adj. [2. inratus], invalid.

Lit.

Undecided, unfixed, void, of no effect:

quod modo erat ratum, irritum est,

Ter. Phorm, 4, 7, 58:

testamentum irritum facere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109:

testamentum pro irrito habere,

Suet. Tib. 51; Gai. Inst. 2, 146 sq.; Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 14:

injurias rescindere et irritas facere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63:

quaeque augur injusta, nefasta, vitiosa, dira, defixerit, inrita infectaque sunto,

id. Leg. 2, 8, 21:

omnia ab iis acta,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

pacta,

Sil. 6, 696:

Tiberii voluntas,

Suet. Calig. 14:

somnia,

of no significance, id. Aug. 91:

Remus aves irritas habuit,

Gell. 13, 14.—

Vain, useless, without effect, ineffectual:

ingrata atque irrita esse omnia intellego,

Plaut. As. 1, 2, 10:

inceptum,

Liv. 29, 35; 24, 19:

dona,

Verg. G. 4, 519:

tela,

id. A. 2, 459:

moenia,

Ov. M. 12, 587:

labor anni,

id. ib. 1, 273; Quint. 12, 1, 13:

verba,

Ov. R. Am. 286:

tua dicta factaque,

Cat. 30, 10:

spes,

Liv. 22, 20; Stat. Th. 10, 45:

oblivio,

Liv. 28, 29:

lingua (Cassandrae),

Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 66:

remedium,

Tac. H. 4, 81:

preces,

Plin. Pan. 26:

ova,

fruitless, infertile, Plin. 10, 58, 79, § 160.—

Transf., of persons, that does or undertakes a thing in vain, to no purpose, without effect.

With gen.:

irritus legationis,

Tac. H. 4, 32:

consilii,

Vell. 2, 63, 2:

propositi,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 3 [p. 1003] ext.:

spei,

vainly hoping, Curt. 6, 5, 31:

incepti,

Sil. 7, 131.—

Absol.:

variis assultibus irritus urget,

Verg. A. 5, 442:

venit et e templis irrita turba domum,

without a response, Tib. 2, 3, 22:

irriti legati remittuntur,

Tac. A. 15, 25:

domum irritus rediit,

Sen. Ben. 6, 11:

discedere irritum putebat,

Curt. 4, 4, 2: irritus qui habebatur, laudabatur, good for nothing, Cat. ap. Gell. 11, 2, 2.— Subst.: irrĭtum, i, n., nothingness, vanity, worthlessness:

spes ad irritum redacta,

Liv. 28, 31:

spes ad irritum cadens,

id. 2, 6:

victoria ad inritum revolvebatur,

Tac. H. 3, 26:

cecidisse in inritum labores,

id. ib. 3, 53 fin.:

irrita dicere,

useless words, Ov. M. 11, 40.— Adv.: irrĭtē, in vain, Cassiod. Var. 1, 4; 12, 2.

irrītus, ūs, m., v. hirritus.

undecided, void, unfixed, of no effect.

vain, useless, ineffectual, of not effect.

cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.

Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).

Absol.:

nux,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

glans,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

canna,

unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

granum inane cassumque,

Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —

Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.

With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

virgo dote cassa,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

lumine aër,

Lucr. 4, 368:

lumine corpus,

id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

animā corpus,

id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

cassus lumine (= vitā),

deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

and in like sense aethere cassus,

Verg. A. 11, 104:

simulacra cassa sensu,

Lucr. 4, 127.—

With gen.:

cassus luminis ensis,

Cic. Arat. 369.—

With ab:

elementum ab omnibus,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—

Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

copia verborum,

Lucr. 4, 511:

vota,

Verg. A. 12, 780:

fertilitas terrae,

Ov. M. 5, 482:

fraus,

Luc. 5, 130:

consilia,

Sen. Troad. 570:

viae,

vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

labores,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

manus,

without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

augur futuri,

false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

omen,

id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

palearum,

Sol. 52;

esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

furere,

Verg. G. 3, 100:

longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

id. A. 3, 345:

tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

quae profecto incassum agebantur,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

vana incassum jactare tela,

Liv. 10, 29, 2:

incassum missae preces,

id. 2, 49, 8:

aliquid incassum disserere,

Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.

Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).

Absol.:

nux,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

glans,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

canna,

unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

granum inane cassumque,

Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —

Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.

With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

virgo dote cassa,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

lumine aër,

Lucr. 4, 368:

lumine corpus,

id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

animā corpus,

id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

cassus lumine (= vitā),

deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

and in like sense aethere cassus,

Verg. A. 11, 104:

simulacra cassa sensu,

Lucr. 4, 127.—

With gen.:

cassus luminis ensis,

Cic. Arat. 369.—

With ab:

elementum ab omnibus,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—

Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

copia verborum,

Lucr. 4, 511:

vota,

Verg. A. 12, 780:

fertilitas terrae,

Ov. M. 5, 482:

fraus,

Luc. 5, 130:

consilia,

Sen. Troad. 570:

viae,

vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

labores,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

manus,

without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

augur futuri,

false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

omen,

id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

palearum,

Sol. 52;

esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

furere,

Verg. G. 3, 100:

longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

id. A. 3, 345:

tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

quae profecto incassum agebantur,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

vana incassum jactare tela,

Liv. 10, 29, 2:

incassum missae preces,

id. 2, 49, 8:

aliquid incassum disserere,

Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.

Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).

Absol.:

nux,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

glans,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

canna,

unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

granum inane cassumque,

Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —

Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.

With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

virgo dote cassa,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

lumine aër,

Lucr. 4, 368:

lumine corpus,

id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

animā corpus,

id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

cassus lumine (= vitā),

deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

and in like sense aethere cassus,

Verg. A. 11, 104:

simulacra cassa sensu,

Lucr. 4, 127.—

With gen.:

cassus luminis ensis,

Cic. Arat. 369.—

With ab:

elementum ab omnibus,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—

Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

copia verborum,

Lucr. 4, 511:

vota,

Verg. A. 12, 780:

fertilitas terrae,

Ov. M. 5, 482:

fraus,

Luc. 5, 130:

consilia,

Sen. Troad. 570:

viae,

vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

labores,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

manus,

without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

augur futuri,

false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

omen,

id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

palearum,

Sol. 52;

esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

furere,

Verg. G. 3, 100:

longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

id. A. 3, 345:

tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

quae profecto incassum agebantur,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

vana incassum jactare tela,

Liv. 10, 29, 2:

incassum missae preces,

id. 2, 49, 8:

aliquid incassum disserere,

Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

infectus, a, um, adj. [2. in-factus].

Not made or done, unwrought, unmade, undone, unperformed, unfinished (class.):

ubi cognovit, opera quae facta infectaque sient,

Cato, R. R. 2, 1:

ea, quae sunt facta, infecta refert,

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 3:

et id, quod indicatum non sit, pro infecto haberi oportere,

Cic. Inv. 2, 27, 80:

omnia pro infecto sint,

let all be regarded as undone, Liv. 9, 11, 3:

infecta pace,

without having effected a peace, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 8; Liv. 37, 1, 6; 32, 37, 5: damnum infectum, a loss which has not yet happened, but is only anticipated:

qui in pariete communi demoliendo damni infecti (nomine) promiserit,

Cic. Top. 4, 22; id. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146; so,

damni infecti,

Plin. 36, 2, 2, § 6; cf. Dig. 39, 2, 2; 43, 15, 1, § 5; Gai. 4, 31 al. (for Verg. A. 6, 742, v. inficio):

infectis iis, quae agere destinaverat, ab urbe proficiscitur,

without having accomplished those things, Caes. B. C. 1, 33; so,

re infectā,

without accomplishing the matter, id. B. G. 7, 17, 5; Liv. 9, 32, 6; Quint. 9, 3, 73; cf.:

infecta dicta re eveniant tua,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 85:

infectis rebus,

Sall. J. 28, 4; Nep. Milt. 7, 5; and:

infecto negotio,

Sall. J. 58 fin.:

victoriā,

without having gained the victory, Liv. 9, 23, 11:

argentum,

uncoined, id. 34, 10, 4; cf.

aurum,

Verg. A. 10, 528:

infecta dona facere,

to render unmade, to revoke, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 27:

infectum reddere,

to make void, of no effect, id. ib. 4, 3, 23: facta atque infecta, things done and not done, i. e. true and false, Verg. A. 4, 190; Stat. Th. 3, 430:

rudis atque infecta materies,

unwrought, Petr. 114:

telasque calathosque infectaque pensa reponunt,

unfinished, Ov. M. 4, 10.—

Impossible:

nihil jam infectum Metello credens,

Sall. J. 76, 1; so,

mira et paene infecta,

App. M. 1, p. 111, 25.

infectus, a, um, Part., from inficio.

infectus, ūs, m. [inficio], a dyeing (post-Aug.).—In abl.:

lanarum,

Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193.

lībĕro, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form of the fut. perf. liberasso, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 66), v. a. [1. liber], to make or set free, to free, liberate (syn. vindico).

Lit., to release from slavery, to free, manumil:

amicas emite, liberate,

Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 22:

liberem ego te?

id. Men. 5, 7, 35:

servos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

sese,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182:

aliquem vindictā liberare,

Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 4.—

Transf.

In gen., to free, release, extricate, deliver (cf. levo) a person or thing from something (an obligation, debt, difficulty, etc.); constr.: aliquem (aliquid) ab aliqua re, with simple abl.; less freq. with gen.

With personal objects.

With ab:

teque item ab eo vindico ac libero,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1:

se a Venere,

to release one's self from one's duty to Venus, id. Div. in Caecil. 17, 53.—

With abl.: divortio te liberabo incommodis, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

defensionum laboribus senatoriisque muneribus liberatus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 1:

aliquem culpā,

id. Att. 13, 22, 3:

aliquem invidiā,

id. N. D. 1, 6, 13:

aliquem suspicione crudelitatis,

id. Fam. 1, 2, 3:

aliquem magnā sollicitudine,

id. Att. 6, 1, 10; cf.:

populum metu,

id. Rep. 1, 16, 25:

liberatus omni perturbatione animi,

id. ib. 1, 17, 28:

aliquem periculo,

Caes. B. C. 3, 83:

obsidione,

id. B. G. 4, 19:

se aere alieno,

to pay a debt, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 4.—

With gen.:

aliquem culpae,

Liv. 41, 19:

voti liberari,

id. 5, 28.—

With ex:

multos ex incommodis pecuniā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 23.—

With simple acc.:

vectigales multos ac stipendiarios liberavit,

exempted from taxes, Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 10:

Volusii liberandi, meum fuit consilium,

to release from obligation, id. Fam. 5, 20, 4:

Buthrotios cum Caesar decreto suo liberavisset, viz.,

from a division of their lands, id. Att. 16, 16, C, 11:

amotusque post triumphum abdicatione dictaturae terror et linguam et animos liberaverat hominum,

Liv. 6, 16, 8:

(debitores) capitis deminutione liberantur,

i. e. from debt, Gai. Inst. 3, 84 al. —

With inanim. and abstr. objects:

eum (mundum) ab omni erratione liberavit,

Cic. Univ. 6; cf.

below, at the end of this number: quorum linguae sic inhaererent, ut loqui non possent, eae scalpello resectae liberarentur,

would be set free, id. Div. 2, 46, 96: liberare agros, to free or exempt from taxes, id. Agr. 1, 4, 10:

publica liberare,

id. ib. 2, 21, 57; cf.:

liberari omnia Asiae emporia portusque,

Liv. 32, 33:

liberata vectigalia,

id. 41, 28:

fundum alii obligatum liberare,

Dig. 18, 1, 41:

liberare fidem,

to discharge one's promise, keep one's word, Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

liberare promissa,

to cancel promises, to make them void and of no effect, id. Off. 1, 10, 33:

nomina,

to settle debts, Liv. 7, 21: impensam, to clear or repay expenses, Col. 3, 3.—Of an abstr. object:

divinum animum corpore liberatum cogitatione complecti,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 51.—

In partic.

To absolve or acquit in a court of justice (syn.:

absolvo, solvo): aliquem, opp. condemnare,

Cic. Clu. 22, 60:

aliquem crimine aliquo,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 71: liberatur Milo, non eo consilio profectus esse, is acquitted of the charge of having undertaken a journey with the design, etc., id. Mil. 18, 47:

reum a judicibus hoc defensionis modo liberari non posse,

Quint. 7, 4, 20.—Very rarely with acc. of the charge:

crimen libidinis confessio intemperantiae liberavit,

Val. Max. 8, 1, 12.—

To clear, i. e. to pass, traverse, cross over a place without hinderance (post - Aug.):

flumen,

Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3; 4, 7, 28; Hyg. Fab. 257:

angustias freti,

Front. Strat. 1, 4, 13:

limen,

Petr. 136.—

Templa liberata, freed from buildings that obstructed the view, i. e. having a free prospect, Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21.

lŭo, lui, 3, v. a. [root lu-, to wash; Gr. louô, loutron; cf. luma, luthron, polluo, diluo, and lavo], to wash, lave. — Lit.:

Graecia luitur Ionio,

Sil. 11, 22: amnis moenia luit, Prud. steph. 3, 190.—

Trop., to cleanse, purge:

insontes errore luit,

Val. Fl. 3, 407.

lŭo, lui (no sup., but fut. part. act. luiturus, Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 16; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 140; Prud. Psych. 535; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 585), 3, v. a. [root lu, to loose, let go; Gr. luô; cf. lutêr, lutron; Lat. solvo, reluo; Germ. los; Engl. loose; prob. not connected with luo, 1.], to loose, let go, set free. —Hence,

To release from debt:

fundum a testatore obligatum,

Dig. 36, 1, 78, § 6.—

To pay a debt or penalty:

aes alienum,

Curt. 10, 2, 25:

debitum, Cod. Th. 2, 4, 3: cautum est ut lueret in singulas (arbores caesas) aeris XXV.,

Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 7.—

Luere poenas or poenam, to suffer as a punishment, undergo:

itaque mei peccati luo poenas,

Cic. Att. 3, 9, 1:

ad luendas rei publicae poenas,

id. Sull. 27, 76:

qui Tuscā pulsus ab urbe Exsilium dirā poenam pro caede luebat,

was undergoing banishment as a punishment, Ov. M. 3, 624:

augurium malis,

to suffer the misfortune which the augury predicted, Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 46:

supplicia crucibus,

Just. 2, 5, 6.—

To atone for, expiate (class.):

stuprum voluntariā morte luere,

Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 64:

noxam pecuniā,

Liv. 38, 37:

qui (obsides) capite luerent, si pacto non staretur,

id. 9, 5:

sanguine perjuria,

Verg. G. 1, 502:

commissa,

id. ib. 4, 454.—

To satisfy, appease:

libidinem alicujus sanguine innocentium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 77.—

To avert by expiation or punishment:

pericula publica,

Liv. 10, 28, 13:

responsa,

to render void, of no effect, Val. Fl. 2, 569.