elevo

ē-lĕvo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a.

I.

Lit., to lift up, raise (very rare):

contabulationem,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 5 and 7:

lumbos in altum,

App. M. 4, p. 143:

arcam,

Vulg. Gen. 7, 17.— Poet.:

elevat hunc pluma,

i. e. turns into a bird, Claud. Eutr. 1, 295: aura preces, i. e. carry away, disperse, = auferat, dissipet, Prop. 1, 8, 12:

fructum,

to gather in, Col. 3, 21, 5: statura elevata, i. e. tall, Capit. Ant. Phil. 13.—More freq.,

II.

Trop.

A.

To lighten, alleviate:

aegritudinem (with obtundere),

Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 34; cf. sollicitudines (opp. duplicare), Luccei. in Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2.—Esp. freq.,

B.

(In allusion to the rising of the lighter scale.) To make light of, to lessen, diminish, impair, weaken; to disparage, detract from:

causas suspicionum offensionumque tum evitare, tum elevare, tum ferre,

Cic. Lael. 24; so,

objectum ab adversario,

id. de Or. 2, 56 fin.; cf. id. Inv. 1, 42; Quint. 6, 3, 75 sq.; 11, 3, 176:

perspicuitatem,

Cic. N. D. 3, 4:

auctoritatem,

Liv. 3, 21; 37, 57 fin.:

res gestas (opp. verbis extollere),

id. 28, 43; cf. ib. 44 fin.:

noxam multitudinis,

id. 45, 10:

non si quid turbida Roma Elevet,

Pers. 1, 6 et saep.—With personal objects:

est plane oratoris movere risum, quod frangit adversarium, quod impedit, quod elevat, quod deterret, quod refutat,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236; cf.:

elevabatur index indiciumque,

Liv. 26, 27:

Samnitium bella extollit, elevat Etruscos,

id. 9, 37:

assiduos viros (copia),

Prop. 2, 33, 44 (3, 31, 44 M.); cf. id. 2, 34, 58 (3, 32, 58 M.).—

C.

Of the voice, to lift up, raise (late Lat.):

vocem,

Vulg. Judic. 2, 4 al.