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* ăb-ŏlĕfăcĭo, ĕre, = aboleo, to destroy: civitatem, Tert. Apol. 35 (al. obolefacere).

ăb-ŏlĕo, ēvi (ui), ĭtum, 2, v. a., orig. (in contrast with ad-oleo) to retard or to check the growth of; hence, in a more extended sense, to destroy, efface, abolish; trop., to terminate, and, in the pass., to die, to decay (not before the Aug. period).

  1. I. Lit.: cuncta viri monumenta, Verg. A. 4, 497: deum aedes vetustate aut igni abolitae, Tac. A. 2, 49; cf.: corpus alicujus igni, i. e. to burn, id. ib. 16, 6; so, libros, Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 6: Homeri carmina, Suet. Calig. 34 al.
    In pass.: aboleri, to die (opp. nasci), Plin. 7, prooem. § 4.
    Poet.: viscera undis, to remove the poisonous flesh by washing, Verg. G. 3, 560.
  2. II. Fig.: dedecus armis, Verg. A. 11, 789; cf.: labem prioris ignominiae, Tac. H. 3, 24: memoriam, Suet. Calig. 60; Verg. A. 1, 720: magistratum alicui, Liv. 3, 38, 7: legem (= abrogare), Quint. 1, 5, 29; cf. decretum, Suet. Claud. 6; Galb. 23: crimen, Dig. 48, 6, 2, § 10: frumentationes, Suet. Aug. 42: vectigalia, id. Ner. 10: vim moremque asylorum, id. Tib. 37 al.: nonnulla ex antiquis caerimoniis paulatim abolita (= omissa, neglecta), Suet. Aug. 31; cf.: memoria nondum omnino abolita, id. Gram. 24.

ăb-ŏlesco, ēvi, no sup., 3, v. inch. n. (vox Vergiliana) [aboleo], to decay little by little, to vanish, cease (like aboleo, not before the Aug. period): tantique abolescet gratia facti, * Verg. A. 7, 232: donec cum re nomen quoque vetustate abolevit, Liv. 1, 23, 3; cf.: cujus rei prope jam memoria aboleverat, id. 3, 55, 6; 9, 36, 1: poena, Gell. 20, 1 al.: abolescit, Crescite, etc., Tert. Exh. Cast. 6.