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.
