ex-aedĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
- I. To finish building, to build up, erect, construct (rare but class.).
- A. Lit.: oppidum, * Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 2; cf. Liv. 30, 1 fin.: Capitolium (with efficere), Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 19: domos et villas, Sall. C. 12, 3: templa deum, Liv. 1, 56: hibernacula, id. ib. 30, 3; navem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18: hunc mundum, id. Ac. 2, 40 fin.
- B. Trop., to finish, complete: ne graveris exaedificare id opus, quod instituisti, Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 164; cf.: suam incohatam ignaviam, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 95.
- * II. To turn out of doors: me ex his aedibus, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 3.