expergēfaciō

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expergē-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a. [expergo], to awaken, rouse.

Lit.:

expergefactus e somno,

Suet. Calig. 6; 38; id. Aug. 94:

repente,

id. Claud. 8; Vulg. Gen. 41, 4 al.—

Transf., in gen., to arouse, stir up, excite: si forte expergefacere te posses, * Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 38:

Italiam terrore subito,

Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45: Musaea mele per chordas digitis expergefacta, awoke, i. e. produced, Lucr. 2, 413:

flagitium,

i. e. to commit, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 42.

suscĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [sub-cito], to lift up, raise, elevate (syn.: erigo, elevo).

In gen. (only poet.):

terga (i. e. humum),

to throw up, cast up, Verg. G. 1, 97:

undas (Nilus),

Luc. 10, 225:

aura lintea Suscitat,

swells, fills, Ov. H. 5, 54:

aures,

to erect, prick up, Val. Fl. 2, 125:

vulturium a cano capite,

to scare away, Cat. 68, 124:

pulverem pede,

Val. Max. 9, 3, ext. 3.—

In partic.

To build, erect (ante- and postclass.):

delubra deum,

Lucr. 5, 1166:

basilicas et forum in tantam altitudinem, ut, etc.,

Eum. Pan. ad Const. 22 med. —

Of persons sleeping, at rest, or quiet; of things at rest, etc., to stir up, rouse up, arouse, awaken; to set in motion, encourage, incite (the predom. signif. of the word;

syn. expergefacio): aliquem e somno,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

aliquem e molli quiete,

Cat. 80, 4:

quae me somno suscitet,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 96:

hic deposuit caput et dormit: suscita,

id. Most. 2, 1, 35:

se ad suom officium,

id. Rud. 4, 2, 17:

in arma viros,

Verg. A. 9, 463; 2, 618:

te ab tuis subselliis contra te testem suscitabo,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 37:

tacentem musam,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 19:

oscinem corvum prece suscitabo Solis ab ortu,

will invoke, id. ib. 3, 27, 11:

ut te (aegrotum) Suscitet,

would restore, revive, id. S. 1, 1, 83:

mortuos,

to awaken, resuscitate, Aug. Serm. Verb. Dom. 44, 2; 44, 1; 44, 3 sq.:

Cupido Suscitat affixam maestis Aeetida curis,

Val. Fl. 8, 233:

Vesbius attonitas acer cum suscitat urbes,

startles, id. 3, 209:

si te suscitat Oceanus,

Mart. 6, 9, 2:

quā te suscitat,

id. 3, 95, 10; 5, 36, 5:

suscitatus,

raised from the dead, Aug. Serm. Verb. Dom. 44.—

Of things concr. or abstr.:

cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignes,

stirs up, rekindles, Verg. A. 5, 743:

ignes hesternos,

Ov. M. 8, 642; cf.:

exstinctos ignes (i. e. amoris),

id. A. A. 3, 597:

crepitum,

to raise, excite, Prop. 2, 4, 14:

clamores,

Phaedr. 5, 5, 28: fictas sententias, to bring forth, produce, invent, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 40, 88 (Trag. v. 447 Vahl.): bellum civile, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3:

vim suscitat ira,

Verg. A. 5, 454:

saevam caedem,

id. ib. 12, 498:

sensus tuos,

Sen. Agam. 789:

ne sopitam memoriam malorum oratio mea suscitet,

Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 8:

ensis ad tympana,

Claud. in Eutr. 2, 281.