to scare away

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terrĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a. [Sanscr. root tras-, trasāmi, tremble; Gr. treô], to frighten, [p. 1861] affright, put in fear or dread, to alarm, terrify.

Lit. (class. and very freq.):

nec me ista terrent,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 4:

adversarios,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

qui urbem totam... caede incendiisque terreret,

id. Har. Resp. 4, 6:

eum hominem istis mortis aut exsilii minis,

id. Par. 2, 17:

suae malae cogitationes terrent,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 67:

maris subita tempestas terret navigantes,

id. Tusc. 3, 22, 52:

milites... alii se abdere, pars territos confirmare,

Sall. J. 38, 5:

multum ad terrendos nostros valuit clamor,

Caes. B. G. 7, 84:

mortis metu territi,

Curt. 6, 7, 10; 9, 4, 16:

aliquem proscriptionis denuntiatione,

Cic. Planc. 35, 87:

metu poenāque,

id. Rep. 5, 4, 6:

ut in scenā videtis homines consceleratos impulsu deorum terreri Furiarum taedis ardentibus,

id. Pis. 20, 46:

terrere metu,

Liv. 36, 6, 10:

territus hoste novo,

Ov. M. 3, 115. — With ne and subj.:

Samnites maxime territi, ne ab altero exercitu integro intactoque fessi opprimerentur,

Liv. 10, 14, 20:

terruit urbem, Terruit gentes, grave ne rediret Saeculum Pyrrhae,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 4 sq. —With gen.:

territus animi,

Sall. H. Fragm. 4, 50 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 34, 4.— Absol.:

ut ultro territuri succlamationibus, concurrunt,

Liv. 28, 26, 12.—

Transf.

To drive away by terror, to frighten or scare away ( poet.):

profugam per totum terruit orbem,

Ov. M. 1, 727:

fures vel falce vel inguine,

id. ib. 14, 640; cf.:

has (Nymphas) pastor fugatas terruit,

id. ib. 14, 518:

volucres (harundo),

Hor. S. 1, 8, 7:

saepe etiam audacem fugat hoc terretque poëtam,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 182:

terret ambustus Phaethon avaras Spes,

id. C. 4, 11, 25.—

To deter by terror, to scare, frighten from any action:

aliquem metu gravioris servitii a repetendā libertate,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch:

ut, si nostros loco depulsos vidisset, quo minus libere hostes insequerentur, terreret,

Caes. B. G. 7, 49.—With ne, Tac. H. 2, 63; 3, 42:

memoria pessimi proximo bello exempli terrebat, ne rem committerent eo,

Liv. 2, 45, 1:

praesentiā tuā, ne auderent transitum, terruisti, Auct. Pan. ap. Constant. 22: non territus ire,

Manil. 5, 576:

inimicos loqui terrent amplitudine potestatis,

Amm. 27, 7, 9.

ex-plōdo ( ex-plaudo), si, sum, 3, v. a., Gr. pternokopein, to drive out or off by clapping; orig. a scenic word said of a player, to hiss or hoot off, explode him.

Prop.:

histrio exsibilatur et exploditur,

Cic. Par. 3, 26; cf.:

Aesopum explodi video,

id. de Or. 1, 61, 259:

aliquem e scena non modo sibilis sed etiam convicio,

id. Rosc. Com. 11, 30:

nam satis est equitem mihi plaudere, ut audax Contemptis aliis explosa Arbuscula (mima) dixit,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 77; cf.: pars plaudite ergo, pars offensi explaudite, Aus. Sept. Sap. de Thal. fin. —

Transf. beyond the scenic sphere.

To drive out or away (rare; not in Cic.): aliquem in Arpinos, Afran. ap. Non. 186, 16:

(alios) in arenam aut litus,

to cast out, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 10.— Poet.:

noctem explaudentibus alis,

to scare away, Lucr. 4, 710.—

To reject, disapprove (Ciceron.):

te illud idem, quod tum explosum et ejectum est, nunc retulisse demiror,

Cic. Clu. 31, 86; cf.:

explosae ejectaeque sententiae,

id. Fin. 5, 8, 31; and id. Off. 1, 2, 6:

hoc genus divinationis vita explosit,

id. Div. 2, 41, 86:

multa dixi in ignobilem regem, quibus totus est explosus,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 3:

fictione pristina explosa,

abolished, Just. Inst. 1, 12, 6.

to frighten, terrify, scare away, deter.

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.

ex-cŭtĭo, cussi, cussum, 3 (archaic perf. subj. excussit, for excusserit, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16), v. a. [quatio], to shake out or off, to cast out, drive out, to send forth (class., esp. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.:

posse ex his (litteris) in terram excussis annales Ennii, ut deinceps legi possint, effici,

shaken out, Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 94:

equus excussit equitem,

threw off, Liv. 8, 7, 10:

excussus equo,

Verg. A. 11, 640:

excussus curru,

id. ib. 10, 590; Suet. Caes. 37; Curt. 3, 11; cf.:

lectis excussit utrumque,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 112:

gubernatorem in mare e puppi,

Curt. 4, 4 med.; cf.

also: ancora ictu ipso excussa e nave sua,

Liv. 37, 30, 9:

lapide clavum,

to knock off, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 10:

pulvis digitis excutiendus erit,

Ov. A. A. 1, 150:

poculum e manibus,

Pers. 3, 101:

ignem de crinibus,

to shake off, Ov. M. 12, 281:

rem de manu alicujus,

to strike out, Dig. 47, 2, 53, § 13:

Pelion subjectā Ossā (Juppiter),

Ov. M. 1, 155:

poma venti,

to cast down, shake down, id. ib. 14, 764 et saep.:

ne nucifrangibula (i. e. dentes) excussit ex malis meis,

to knock out, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16; cf.:

cerebrum alicui,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; id. Aul. 2, 1, 29:

oculum alicui cyatho, verberibus,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 16; Suet. Tib. 53; cf.:

oculo excusso,

id. Caes. 68: ipso cum domino calce omnes excutiamus, to drive out or forth, Lucil. ap. Non. 298, 33:

Teucros vallo,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

hostem oppidis et regionibus,

Flor. 2, 6, 42:

ab obsidione Nolae urbis (with pellere a Campania),

id. ib. 29:

feras cubilibus,

to scare, rouse up, Plin. Pan. 81, 1:

si flava excutitur Chloë,

be shaken off, cast off, Hor. C. 3, 9, 19:

(viros) excussos patriā infesta sequi,

Verg. A. 7, 299:

ut me excutiam atque egrediar domo,

take myself off, decamp, Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 20:

quartanas,

to drive away, Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 56 et saep.:

(leo) gaudet comantes Excutiens cervice toros,

shaking about, shaking, Verg. A. 12, 7; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 71:

caesariem,

Ov. M. 4, 492:

pennas,

id. ib. 6, 703:

habenas,

id. ib. 5, 404; cf.:

nares inflare et movere... et pulso subito spiritu excutere, etc.,

to blow up, dilate, Quint. 11, 3, 80:

se (gallinae edito ovo),

Plin. 10, 41, 57, § 116:

tela,

to hurl, discharge, Tac. A. 2, 20; cf. Curt. 8, 13:

fulmen in Thebas,

Stat. Th. 10, 69:

excussaque brachia jacto,

tossed, Ov. M. 5, 596; id. H. 18, 189:

(aër) Excussit calidum flammis velocibus ignem,

sends out, produces, Lucr. 6, 688; cf. id. 6, 161: largum imbrem (procellae), Curt. 4, 7:

lacrimas alicui,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 59; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15:

vomitum alicui,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 15:

sudorem,

Nep. Eum. 5 et saep.— Transf.:

excutior somno,

I am roused from sleep, Verg. A. 2, 302; Ov. H. 13, 111; Hor. S. 2, 6, 112.—

In partic., to shake out, shake.

Esp. a garment, to free it from dust:

vexatam solo vestem,

Petr. 128, 4; Vulg. Act. 18, 6; cf.:

excutere de pulvere,

shake yourself, Vulg. Isa. 52, 2; and:

pulverem de pedibus,

id. Matt. 10, 14.—

To stir, move any thing to see under it; and hence, to search, examine a person: St. Di me perdant, si ego tui quicquam abstuli. Eu. Agedum, excutedum pallium, Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 19; so,

culcitisque et stragulis praetentatis et excussis,

Suet. Claud. 35.—With personal objects: excutiuntur tabellarii, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 4; cf.:

verum (porcellum) ut subesse pallio contenderent Et excuti juberent,

Phaedr. 5, 5, 19:

non excutio te, si quid forte ferri habuisti: non scrutor,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97.

Trop.

In gen., to shake out or off, force away, etc.:

omnes istorum delicias, omnes ineptias,

to shake off, discard, Cic. Cael. 28, 67:

noli aculeos orationis meae, qui reconditi sunt, excussos arbitrari,

plucked out, removed, id. Sull. 16, 47:

omnia ista nobis studia de manibus excutiuntur,

are torn, wrested from our hands, id. Mur. 14, 30; cf.:

hanc excutere opinionem mihimet volui radicitus,

id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111:

severitatem veterem,

id. Fam. 9, 10, 2; cf.

also: excutient tibi istam verborum jactationem,

id. Sull. 8, 24:

excute corde metum,

remove, banish, Ov. M. 3, 689:

diros amores,

id. ib. 10, 426:

orbem paci excutere,

to banish peace from the world, Luc. 1, 69:

omnis quae erat conceptae mentis intentio mora et interdum iracundia excutitur,

Quint. 10, 3, 20:

quem (Senecam) non equidem omnino conabar excutere,

id. 10, 1, 126:

aliena negotia curo, excussus propriis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 20:

dummodo risum excutiat sibi,

can raise, produce, id. ib. 1, 4, 35. —

In partic. (acc. to I. B.), to search, examine, inspect, investigate:

explicando excutiendoque verbo,

Cic. Part. Or. 36, 134; cf.: pervulgata atque in manibus jactata et excussa, qs. shaken out, i. e. examined, id. Mur. 12. 26:

illud excutiendum est, ut sciatur quid sit carere,

id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

quae fere omnia Cicero in crimine veneficii excutit,

Quint. 5, 7, 37; 12, 8, 13:

totum locum,

id. 5, 7, 6:

aut conjecturā excutiuntur, an vera sint, etc.,

id. 5, 13, 19 et saep.— Hence, excussus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, extended, stiff (post-Aug. and rare):

interest, utrum tela excusso lacerto torqueantur, an remissa manu effluant,

Sen. Ben. 2, 6; so,

lacerto,

Ov. H. 4, 43:

palma excussissima,

Petr. 95.— Adv.: excussē, strongly, violently:

mittere pilam (with rigide, opp. languidius),

Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 4.

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