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ex-sculpo (exculp-), psi, ptum, 3, v. a.

  1. I. To dig out, cut out, chisel out, carve.
    1. A. Lit.: terram unde exsculpserant, fossam vocabant, Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll.: foramina arborum exsculpta digitos sex. Cato, R. R. 18, 2: nescio quid e quercu exsculpseram, quod videretur simile simulacri, Cic. Att. 13, 28, 2: signum ex molari lapide, Quint. 2, 19, 3; cf. id. 2, 4, 7.
      1. 2. Transf., prov.: leoni esurienti ex ore exsculpere praedam, said of any thing exceedingly difficult or daring, Lucil. ap. Non. 102, 22.
    2. B. Trop., to get out, elicit, extort: ex aliquo verum, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 45: in quaestione vix exsculpsi, ut diceret, obtained, Plaut. Cist. 2, 2, 6.
  2. * II. To scratch out, erase: hos versus Lacedaemonii exsculpserunt, Nep. Paus. 1, 4.