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ex-ăgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a., to drive out of its position or place; to stir up, rouse up, disturb.

Lit. (very seldom):

ut quicquid faecis subsederit exagitet, et in summum reducat,

Col. 12, 19, 4:

vis (venti) exagitata foras erumpitur,

Lucr. 6, 583. — Poet.:

lustra ferarum Venatu,

to disturb, Sil. 16, 553:

lepus hic aliis exagitandus erit,

to rouse, start, Ov. A. A. 3, 662; cf. Petr. 131, 7.—

Trop., to rouse up (qs. like a wild beast), to disquiet, harass, persecute, disturb, torment.

In gen.:

insectandis exagitandisque nummariis judicibus,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 8; cf. Prop. 2, 8, 19:

permulti sedes suas patrias, istius injuriis exagitati, reliquerant,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18:

ab Suevis complures annos exagitati bello premebantur et agricultura prohibebantur,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 2; cf. id. ib. 2, 29 fin.:

at omnes di exagitent me, si, etc.,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 54; cf. Ov. F. 5, 141:

exagitari verberibus Furiarum,

Suet. Ner. 34:

quos flagitium, egestas, conscius animus exagitabat,

Sall. C. 14, 3:

senatus vulgi rumoribus exagitatus,

id. ib. 29, 1:

rem publicam seditionibus,

id. ib. 51, 32.—

In partic.

To scold, rail at, to attack violently, to censure, criticise, satirize, rally (cf.: objurgo, improbo, increpo, vitupero, calumnior, reprehendo;

peto, incuso, etc.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 4:

cum etiam Demosthenes exagitetur ut putidus,

Cic. Or. 8 fin.; cf. Suet. Aug. 86:

inventi sunt, qui hanc dicendi exercitationem exagitarent atque contemnerent,

Cic. de Or. 3, 16:

in rebus palam a consularibus exagitatis et in summam invidiam adductis,

id. Fam. 1, 1 fin.; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3:

exagitabantur omnes ejus fraudes atque fallaciae,

Cic. Clu. 36, 101; cf. id. Sull. 21:

quod apud Lucilium scite exagitat in Albucio Scaevola, quam lepide lexeis compostae, etc.,

id. Or. 44, 149.—

To stir up, irritate, excite:

coepere (tribuni) senatum criminando plebem exagitare,

Sall. C. 38, 1; cf.

vulgum,

id. J. 73, 5.—In a good sense:

hujus disputationibus et exagitatus maxime orator est et adjutus,

incited, urged onwards, Cic. Or. 3, 12.—Of abstract objects:

in tali tempore tanta vis hominis leniunda quam exagitanda videbatur,

Sall. C. 48, 5; Tac. A. 4, 12.—

Transf., to stir up, excite the passions themselves: ne et meum maerorem exagitem et te in eundem luctum vocem, Cic. Att. 3, 7, 2;

tristes curas,

Luc. 8, 44:

furores immiti corde,

Cat. 64, 94.