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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• purge (v.): i. e., to make clean or pure; chiefly in religious and medical senses.
    1. I. In general:
      1. 1. purgo, 1: (1) of persons: poet. with gen. of the thing got rid of (Eng. of or from): (but only abl. in prose): I wonder that you have been p.d from that disease, Et miror morbi purgatum te illius esse, Hor. S. 2, 3, 27: every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth (by pruning), omnem palmitem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat, Vulg. Joh. xv. 2: in sense of an excuse, like our legal use, with dat. of the person offended, abl. with de of the offence: quod te mihi de Sempronio purgas, accipio excusationem, Cic. Fam. 12, 25: (2) of things: (a) = cleanse, with acc. of the thing purified: di patrii, purgamus agros, purgamus agrestes, Tib. 2, 1, 17: p. pectora, Lucr. 6, 23: urbem, Cic. Cat. 1, 5: (b) to p. away, p. crimina (i. e. disprove), Cic. Clu. 1; probra, Tac. Ann. 4, 42: in the religious sense; acc. of the pollution: p. nefas, Ov. M. 13, 952: jam crimen habemus purgandum gladio, Lucan 8, 518. Join: purgare and lustrare: domus purgantur lustranturque, Plin. 15, 29, 36 (for lustro, see purify). Frequent. purgĭto, 1 (rare): non mihi homines placent, qui, quando male fecerunt, purgitant (make excuses), Pl. Aul. 4, 10, 26. Comps. (1). expurgo, 1: me expurgare tibi volo, Pl. Capt. 3, 4, 87. Fig.: quae poterunt unquam satis (me) expurgare cicutae? (p. me of poetic phrenzy), Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 53: p. out the old leaven, expurgate vetus fermentum, Vulg. 1 Cor. v. 7. (2) rĕpurgo, 1: to p. gold from the ore, rep. aurum venis, Flor. 4, 12, 2: esp. to p. away, quidquid in Aenea fuerat mortale repurgat, Ov. M. 14, 603.
      2. 2. expĭo, 1, religious sense: cf. arma nondum expiatis uncta cruoribus, Hor. Od. 2, 1, 5 (cf. 1, 2, 29): expiandum forum Romanum a nefarii sceleris vestigiis, Cic. c. Rab. 4, 11: quod non expietur iniquitas, etc., Vulg. 1 Reg. iii. 14.
      3. 3. mundo, 1; and comps. ēmundo, permundo: Josiah p.d Judah, etc., from the high places, etc., mundavit Judam, etc., ab excelsis et lucis, etc., Vulg. 1 Paral. xxxiv. 3: mundata jam terra, ib. 8: (cf. Ez. xxiv. 13): p. (sprinkle) me with hyssop, and I shall be clean, asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor, Ps. li. 7 (l, 9, Vulg.): with obj. of the sin, peccatum tuum mundabitur, Is. vi. 7. Join: expiare, mundare: septem diebus expiabunt altare et mundabunt illud, Ez. xliii. 26: almost all things are by the law p.d with blood, omnia paene in sanguine secundum legem mundantur, Heb. ix. 22 (cf. x. 2): if any one p. himself from these, si quis ergo emundaverit se ab istis, 2 Tim. ii. 21: p. the conscience from, etc. [quanto magis sanguis Christi ...] emundabit conscientiam nostram ab operibus mortuis, Heb. ix. 14: he shall throughly p. his threshing floor, permundabit aream suam, Matt. iii. 12 (purgabit, Luc. iii. 17). Of metals: observe the words joined, in foll.: et sedebit conflans (smelting) et emundans argentum, et purgabit filios Levi, et colabit eos quasi argentum, Mal. iii. 3: I will purely p. away thy dross, excoquam ad purum scoriam tuam, Is. i. 25: to try them (in the furnace), and p. them, and make them white, ut conflentur et eligantur et dealbentur. The Vulg. also uses (where the A. V. has p.) eligĕre (= pluck out), eligam de vobis transgressores, Ez. xx. 38: redimo (atone for), Prov. xvi. 6: dimitto (remit), with aufero (bear away), Is. xxii. 14 and xxvii. 9: propitior (with dat.), impietatibus nostris tu propitiaberis, Ps. lxv. 3 (lxiv. 4): lavo and abluo (wash away), Is. iv. 4: purgationem peccatorum facere, Heb. i. 3.
    2. II. In the medical sense:
      1. 1. with obj. se or alvum: p. se helleboro, Val. Max. 8, 7, 5, fin.: alvum p., Cic. N. D. 2, 50: obj. of thing, purgans omnes escas, Vulg. Marc. vii. 19: to p. away phlegm, p. pituitas, Plin. 20, 17, 73; deafness, p. tarditatem aurium, id. 23, 2, 8: with abl. of the remedy, p. fastidium lauri folio, id. 8, 27, 41: with the medicine as subj., othonnae succus purgat cicatrices et nubeculas et quidquid obstet (oculis)., id. 27, 12, 85. Refl. purgor, with obj. of thing; qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam, Hor. A. P. 302.
      2. 2. Expr. by various phrases with alvum; alvum solvĕre, Cels. 1, 3; a. exonerare, Plin. 10, 44, 61; a. ciere, id. 20, 9, 38; a. movere, Cato, R. R. 115: (violently) a. purgatione sollicitare, Cels. 1, praef. fin.: (by a clyster) a. ducere, Cels. 2, 12 a. subducere, Cels. 3, 4. To purge, intrans. = to be purged, purgari: alvum dejicere, Cato, R. R. 158: dejicere, alone, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3.