demo

dēmo, mpsi (msi), mptum (mtum), 3, v. a. [contr. from de-emo; cf. adimo and abemito], to take off, take away, to withdraw, subtract, remove (class. and very freq.; for syn. cf.: adimo, eripio, furor, rapio, prehendo, capio, sumo, excipio).

I.

Lit.:

addita demptaque quaedam,

Lucr. 2, 770; cf.:

cum aliquid additur aut demitur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 16:

si quid ad eas (leges) addi demi mutarive vellet,

Liv. 31, 11 fin.:

lubet scire quantum auri erus sibi dempsit,

Plaut. Bac. 4, 4, 14 (for which, shortly after, sibi novem abstulit):

aurum sibi,

Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 13:

secures de fascibus,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31; so,

clipea de columnis,

Liv. 40, 51: de capite ( from the sum total ) medimna DC, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33; cf. ib. 35 (twice): una dempta uncia deunx, dextans dempto sextante, dodrans dempto quadrante, bes dempto triente, Varr. L. L. 5, § 172 Müll.:

de stipendio equitum aera,

Liv. 7, 41:

non hilum de tempore mortis,

Lucr. 3, 1100; cf.:

partem de die,

Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20; Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 20 et saep.:

quam minimum ex osse,

Cels. 8, 4; cf.:

aliquid ex cibo,

id. 6, 6, 16:

fetus ab arbore,

Ov. H. 20, 9; cf.:

sucum a vellere,

id. A. A. 3, 214.—With simple abl.:

fetus arbore,

id. M. 14, 689:

juga equis,

id. ib. 7, 324; id. F. 2, 74; cf.:

juga bobus,

Hor. Od. 3, 6, 42:

vincla pedibus,

Ov. M. 3, 168; cf.:

vincula nobis,

id. F. 3, 320:

nubem supercilio,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94 et saep.:

soleas (when about to recline at table),

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 16; cf.: Ov. A. A. 2, 212: haec (epistola) casu ad turrim adhaesit... dempta ad Ciceronem defertur, *Caes. B. C. 5, 48, 8:

odorem vino,

Cato R. R. 110:

barbam,

to shave, Suet. Caes. 67.—

II.

Trop.:

nulla dies nobis maerorem e pectore demet,

Lucr. 3, 921; so,

mihi et tibi et illis molestiam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 33:

nobis acerbam necessitudinem,

Sall. J. 102, 5:

plus dignitatis patribus (with detrahere, and opp. addere),

Liv. 2, 60:

silentia furto,

i. e. to disclose the theft, Ov. M. 2, 700 et saep.—Without a dat.:

metum omnem,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 18:

dolorem,

Lucr. 2, 21:

sollicitudinem,

Cic. Att. 11, 15 fin.:

curas his dictis,

Verg. A. 2, 775; 3, 153 et saep.:

ex dignitate populi (opp. adicere),

Liv. 34, 54; cf.:

de vi magistratus,

id. 3, 33 fin.:

lex ipsa per se dempto auctore,

even without its author, Liv. 2, 42; cf.:

dempto fine,

without end, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 2:

addere aut demere ad haec (verba),

Vulg. 1 Mac. 8, 30.