elavo

ē-lăvo, lāvi, lautum, lōtum, 1, v. a., to wash out or away, to wash clean (very rare; not in the Cic. per.).

I.

Lit.:

elota cerussa,

Cels. 6, 6, no. 3:

elota oliva,

Col. 12, 52, 21.—

II.

Transf.:

elautae ambae sumus opera Neptunia,

washed in the sea, wrecked, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 37; so, in mari elavare, to wash or bathe in the sea, i. e. to be shipwrecked, ruined, id. ib. 2, 7, 21; 5, 2, 20.— Hence, trop.: nos mare acerrumum: nam in mari repperi, hic elavi bonis, have lost, been stripped of property, id. As. 1, 2, 9 (but Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 7, the true reading is elutum, Ritschl, Brix).