excudo

ex-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to strike, beat or hammer out.

I.

Lit.:

silici scintillam,

Verg. A. 1, 174:

ignem,

Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.—

II.

Transf., to hatch out:

pullos ex ovis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 2; 10; 13:

anseres aliena ova non excudunt,

i. e. do not hatch them, id. ib. 3, 10, 3; § 4; 3, 9, 2; Col. 8, 14, 7.—

B.

To forge, mould:

excudent alii spirantia mollius aera,

Verg. A. 6, 848.—

C.

In gen., to prepare, make any thing:

ceras,

Verg. G. 4, 57.—

D.

Trop., of a writing, to compose: excudam aliquid Hêrakleideion, Cic. Att. 15, 27, 2; Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4; Tac. de Or. 9.