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ĕra (less correctly, hera; v. erus), ae (archaic gen. sing. ĕrāï, Aus. Idyll. 7, 5), f. [erus].

  1. I. Prop., the mistress of a house, with respect to the servants; the mistress, lady: nunquam era errans (i. e. Medea), etc., Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 287 Vahl.): servus Dat (puellam) erae suae, Plaut. Cas. prol. 44 sq.; so id. ib. 2, 5, 3; 2, 8, 70; id. Am. 1, 1, 105; Ter. And. 4, 2, 4; id. Eun. 4, 3, 12; 5, 3, 8. So, era major and era minor, the old and young mistress, the lady of the house and her daughter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 22 and 23.
  2. II. Meton., a mistress, female ruler or governor.
    1. A. Of goddesses: domina, era (Minerva), Enn. ap. Ach. Stat. ad Cat. 1, 9 (Vahl. Enn. p. 177, no. 22): Fortuna, era, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 12 dub.; cf.: vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 203 Vahl.—for which, sit sane Fors domina campi, Cic. Pis. 2, 3): rapidi Tritonis era, i. e. Minerva, Cat. 64, 396: hilarate erae (i. e. Cybeles) citatis erroribus animum, id. 63, 18; so ib. 92: tergeminam tunc placat eram (Hecaten), Val. Fl. 1, 780: noctis eram Ditemque ciens, i. e. Proserpine, id. 7, 313.
    2. B. Of sweethearts, Cat. 68, 136; so Ov. H. 9, 78.

ērādīcātĭo, ōnis, f. [eradico], a rooting out, Tert. Res. Carn. 27 fin.; Vulg. Isa. 37, 26; cf.: eradicationem posuisti me, i. e. an example of utter destruction, id. Thren. 3, 45.

ē-rādīcĭtus, adv., v. exradicitus.

ē-rādīco (exr-), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. eradicarier, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 21), v. a., to pluck up by the roots, to root out, eradicate (an ante-class. word).

  1. I. Lit.: ex terra enata, Varr. R. R. 1, 27, 2: plantationem, Vulg. Matt. 15, 13; 13, 29 al.
    1. B. Transf.: aliquem, to root out, utterly destroy, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 38; id. Truc. 3, 1, 15; id. Merc. 4, 4, 35; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 6; Ter. And. 4, 4, 22; id. Heaut. 3, 3, 28; Vulg. Jer. 18, 7.
  2. * II. Trop.: pugnis memorandis suis hominum aures, i. e. to wear out, pester with talking, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 53.

ē-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to scratch out, scrape off (ante-class. and since the Aug. per.).

  1. I. Lit.: eradere atque eruere terram, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.: muscum, Col. 4, 24, 6: medullam, id. Arb. 9 fin.; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 162: aliquem (albo), to strike out, erase, Plin. Pan. 25, 3; Tac. A. 4, 42 fin.; cf.: inscriptos titulos monumento, Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 8; Amm. 15, 6, 2: corticem, Vulg. Sap. 13, 11.
    Poet. transf.: genas, i. e. to shave off the beard (for which, shortly before, vellere), Prop. 4 (5), 8, 26.
  2. II. Trop., to abolish, extirpate, eradicate, remove: curam habendi penitus corde, Phacdr. 3, prol. 21; so, elementa cupidinis pravi, * Hor. C. 3, 24, 51: vitia, Sen. Ep. 11: vestigia quoque nobilium civitatum (tempus), i. e. to obliterate, cause to be forgotten, id. 91; cf.: tempora vitae, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 5: eum de terra, Vulg. Jer. 11, 19; id. 1 Reg. 28, 9.

Ĕrăna, ae, f., a town in Cilicia, near Mount Amanus, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 8.

† ēranthĕmis, idis, f., = ἠρανθεμίς, another name for the plant anthemis, the chamomile, Plin. 22, 21, 26, § 53.

† ĕrănus, i, m., = ἔραϝος, a fund contributed for mutual protection against want: concessum est eranum habere … si tali conlatione non ad turbas et ad inlicitos coetus, sed ad sustinendam tenuiorum inopiam utuntur, Plin. Ep. 10, 93; cf. ib. 92; Tert. Apol. 39.

1. Ĕrăsīnus, i, m., = Ἐρασῖνος, a river of Argolis, now Kephalari, Mel. 2, 3, 9; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 225; Ov. M. 15, 276; cf. Sen. N. Q. 3, 26, 3.

    1. 2. † Ĕrăsīnus, i, m., = Ἐρασῖϝος, a favorite boy, Aus. Idyll. 7 praef.

Ĕrăsistrătus, i, m., = Ἐρασίστρατος, a famous physician of Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy Lagus, the founder of a medical school, Plin. 29, 1, 3, § 5; Val. Max. 5, 7 ext. 1; Cels. praef. 3, 4; 4, 4 et saep.

† ĕrastes, ae, m., = ἐραστής, a lover, M. Aurel. ap. Fronto Ep. ad M. Caes. 1, 10.

ērāsus, a, um, Part., from erado.

† Ĕrătīnē, es, f., = Ἐρατειϝή, a nymph, a daughter of Venus, Mart. Cap. 9, § 905.

Ĕrătō (occurring only in the nom.), f., = Ἐρατώ.

  1. I. The muse of lyric and amorous poetry, Ov. F. 4, 195; 349; id. A. A. 2, 16; 425; Aus. Idyll. 20, 6.
    1. B. Meton., a Muse in gen., Verg. A. 7, 37 Serv.; Claud. Mall. Theod. 282.
  2. II. A queen of Armenia, Tac. A. 2, 4.

Ĕrătosthĕnes, is, m., = Ἐρατοσθέϝης, a celebrated geographer, poet, and philosopher of Alexandria, under Ptolemy Euergetes, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 3; Cic. Att. 2, 6; Caes. B. G. 6, 24, 2; Plin. Elench. 2; 5; 2, 108, 112; Quint. 1, 1, 16; 11, 2, 14 al.

exrādīcĭtus (ērād-), adv., from the very roots, climax after radicitus, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 63: subvertendam censeo radicitus, immo vero Plautino irati verbo exradicitus, Front. p. 239, ed. II. Mai.