I.to draw out or forth, to drag out (class.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “rete ex aqua,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 124: “telum e corpore,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: “gladium e vulnere,” Quint. 4, 2, 13; “for which: telum de vulnere,” Ov. M. 12, 119: “vivum puerum alvo,” Hor. A. P. 340; cf.: “filium exsecto ventre,” Dig. 5, 2, 6: “spinas, venena corpori,” Plin. 28, 18, 76, § 245; 7, 2, 2, § 13; cf.: “anulum sibi deficienti,” Suet. Tit. 73: “ut sine labore hanc (aquam) extraxi!” Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 4: “vires humerorum (natae) ad aratra extrahenda,” to draw forward, draw, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159.—With personal objects: “aliquem e latebra,” Suet. Vit. 17; cf.: extrahitur domo latitans Oppianicus a Manilio, Cic. Clu. 13, 39: “rure in urbem,” Hor. S. 1, 1, 11: “senatores vi in publicum,” Liv. 26, 13, 1: “hostes invitos in aciem,” id. 8, 29, 11: “aliquem turba oppositis humeris,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 94.—
B. Esp., med. t. t.
1. Dentis extrahere, i. e. by medicinal means, Plin. 32, 7, 26, § 79 (cf.: dentem evellere, i. e. by force).—
2. Of cuppingglasses: “sanguinem extrahere,” Cels. 2, 11 init.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to withdraw, extricate, release; to draw out, extract, eradicate: “urbem ex periculis maximis,” Cic. Sest. 4, 11; cf.: “me inde,” Ter. Ph. 1, 4, 3: “nescis, Parmeno, Quantum hodie profueris mihi et ex quanta aerumna extraxeris,” id. Hec. 5, 4, 36: “imbecilliores adjuvabit malisque opinionibus extrahet,” Sen. Ep. 95 med.: “se rebus humanis,” to take one's own life, Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 3: “(scelera) ex occultis tenebris in lucem,” Liv. 39, 16, 11: “secreta mentis (verberum vis),” Sen. Hippol. 884: “Epicurus ex animis hominum extraxit radicitus religionem,” Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 121; id. Ac. 2, 34, 108: cf.: “hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus philosophia se extracturam pollicetur,” id. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.—
B. In partic., of time, to draw out, protract, prolong: “res variis calumniis,” Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: “se tergiversando in adventum ejus rem extracturum,” Liv. 34, 46, 5: “certamen usque ad noctem,” id. 4, 41, 5: “pugnam in posterum,” Tac. A. 4, 73: “bellum in tertium annum,” Liv. 3, 2, 2: “somnum plerumque in diem,” Tac. G. 22: “has materias in infinitum,” Quint. 4, 1, 43: “dicendi morā dies,” Caes. B. C. 1, 32, 3: “triduum disputationibus,” id. ib. 1, 33, 3: “diem de die,” Sen. Ben. 2, 5 fin.: “primum tempus noctis,” Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 5: “aestatem,” id. B. G. 5, 22, 4; Liv. 32, 9, 10 et saep.: “eludi atque extrahi se multitudo putare,” Liv. 2, 23, 13; cf.: “populumque ducesque incertis,” Stat. Th. 3, 575: “mentem,” id. ib. 1, 323.
