secludo

sē-clūdo, si, sum, 3, v.a. [claudo], to shut off, shut in a separate place, to shut up, seclude (rare but class.; syn.: secerno, sejungo).

I.

Lit.: incientes (oves) secludere, to shut up, confine, Varr, R. R. 2, 2, 8; Stat. Achill. 1, 359:

illuc eum rapiam, ubi non seclusa aliqua aquula teneatur, sed unde universum flumen erumpat,

confined streamlets, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162:

carmina antro seclusa relinquit,

Verg. A. 3, 446.— Poet. mid.: ille sub extremā pendens secluditur alā, shuts himself off, i. e. protects himself, Prop. 1, 20, 29.—

B.

In gen., to separate, sunder, shut off:

cur luna queat terram secludere solis Lumine,

Lucr. 5, 753:

dextrum cornu, quod erat a sinistro seclusum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 69:

cohors seclusa ab reliquis,

id. ib. 1, 55 fin.:

ab suis interceptum et seclusum,

Liv. 29, 9:

Caesar munitione flumen a monte seclusit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 97:

mare Tyrrhenum a Lucrino molibus seclusum,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 125:

stabula ad eam rem seclusa,

set apart, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 15.—

II.

Trop.

* A.

To shut off, seclude:

a libero spiritu atque a communi luce seclusum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 23.—

B.

To separate, remove: corpore vitam, * Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 1: secludite curas, shut out, exclude, i. q. excludite, Verg. A. 1, 562 Serv.—Hence, sēclūsus, a, um, P. a., sundered, separated, remote, secluded:

his devium quoddam iter esse seclusum a concilio deorum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

seclusum nemus,

Verg. A. 6, 704.— Absol.:

in secluso,

in a remote, secluded place, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 6.— Comp., sup., and adv. do not occur.