secludo

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

sē-clūdo: si, sum, 3,
I 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.