I.to draw out or off, to pull or strip off, put off, divest (class.; esp. freq. since the Aug. period).
I. Lit.: “serpens exuit in spinis vestem,” Lucr. 4, 61: “manticam umero,” App. M. 1, p. 110; cf.: “pharetram umero,” Ov. M. 2, 419: “telum magno e vulnere,” Stat. Th. 9, 287: “ensem vaginā,” id. ib. 9, 76: “clipeum reduci,” Ov. H. 13, 147; cf.: “vincula sibi,” id. M. 7, 773: “jugum,” to shake off, Liv. 35, 17, 8: “alas,” to lay aside, Verg. A. 1, 690: “Trojanos cestus,” id. ib. 5, 420: “setosa duris exuere pellibus membra,” Hor. Epod. 17, 15; cf.: “magnos membrorum artus, magna ossa lacertosque Exuit,” strips, bares, Verg. A. 5, 423: “aliquem veste,” Suet. Ner. 32: “palmas vinclis,” Verg. A. 2, 153: “digitos,” i. e. to strip of rings, Mart. 14, 109: “mensas,” to uncover, id. 9, 60, 7: “si ex his te laqueis exueris,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 58, § 151: “se jugo,” Liv. 34, 13, 9. —In a Greek construction: “unum exuta pedem vinclis,” Verg. A. 4, 518: “cornua exuitur,” Ov. M. 9, 52.—Absol.: “si non saltas, exue igitur (sc. pallam),” Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 16. —
B. Transf., in gen., to strip, despoil, deprive of any thing: “hostium copiis fusis armisque exutis,” i. e. to be forced to throw off their arms and to flee, Caes. B. G. 3, 6, 3: “hostem armis,” id. ib. 5, 51 fin.; Sall. J. 88, 3; Liv. 22, 21, 4: “exuti prope omnes armis diffugere,” id. 21, 61, 9; 34, 28, 11; Verg. A. 11, 395: “impedimentis,” Caes. B. G. 7, 14, 8; 7, 42, 5: “castris,” Liv. 31, 42, 7; 41, 3, 10; 41, 12, 5; Vell. 1, 9, 4: “sedibus,” Tac. A. 13, 39: “aliquem avitis bonis,” id. ib. 14, 31; cf.: “aliquem patrimonio,” Suet. Gramm. 11: “montes,” to strip, lay bare, Stat. S. 4, 3, 50: “se agro paterno avitoque,” Liv. 2, 23, 6: exuto Lepido, interfecto Antonio, stripped bare, i. e. without legions, without arms, etc., Tac. A. 1, 2.—
II. Trop., to lay aside, cast off, divest one's self of any thing: “humanitatem,” Cic. Lig. 5, 14; cf. id. Att. 13, 2, 1: “sapientia vanitatem exuit mentibus,” Sen. Ep. 90 med.: “mentitum colorem,” Quint. 12, 10, 76: “silvestrem animum,” Verg. G. 2, 51: “vultus severos,” Ov. Am. 3, 4, 43: “feritatem,” id. F. 3, 281: “mores antiquos,” Liv. 27, 8, 6: “virtutes,” Tac. A. 1, 75: “fidem,” id. ib. 12, 14: “amicitiam,” id. ib. 1, 8: “tristitiam et arrogantiam et avaritiam,” id. Agr. 9: “jus fasque,” id. H. 3, 5: “promissa,” to break one's word, id. A. 13, 44: “pacta,” id. ib. 6, 43: “patriam,” id. H. 5, 5 et saep.: “hominem exuens ex homine,” Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35: “magistrum,” Tac. A. 14, 52 fin.—*
B. Transf., to make void of, to free from: “se omnibus vitiis,” Sen. Ep. 11.