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. Ach. 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.
VI —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.