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elota Verb: perfect passive participle feminine nominative singular, Verb: perfect passive participle feminine ablative singular, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter nominative plural, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter accusative plural of elavo

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ē-lăvo, lāvi, lautum, lōtum, 1, v. a., to wash out or away, to wash clean (very rare; not in the Cic. per.).
  • I Lit.: elota cerussa, Cels. 6, 6, no. 3: elota oliva, Col. 12, 52, 21.—
  • II Transf.: elautae ambae sumus opera Neptunia, washed in the sea, wrecked, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 37 (700); so, in mari elavare, to wash or bathe in the sea, i.e. to be shipwrecked, ruined, id. ib. 2, 7, 21 (579); 5, 2, 20 (1307).— Hence, trop.: nos mare acerrumum: nam in mari repperi, hic elavi bonis, have lost, been stripped of property, id. As. 1, 2, 9 (135) (but Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 7 (408), the true reading is elutum, Ritschl, Brix).

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