I.to make clean, to cleanse, purify (postAug.).
I. Lit.: “luteos pedes aquā,” Plin. 30, 11, 28, § 93: “tunicas (oculorum) lacrimationum salivis,” id. 11, 37, 54, § 147: “favum,” id. 21, 14, 49, § 83: “agrum,” Gell. 19, 12, 11: “regnum,” Just. 10, 3, 2.—
II. Trop., to purify with religious rites, to expiate, atone for: “se a concubitu mariti,” Suet. Aug. 94: “se,” Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2: “quod ille infamavit, te purifica,” Lampr. Alex. 7; Paul. Nol. Carm. 6, 72.—Of animals, Plin. 10, 41, 57, § 116.
