wards off

sum-mŏvĕo ( subm-), mōvi, mōtum, 2 (sync. form of the pluperf. subj. summosses, Hor. S. 1, 9, 48), v. a., to send or drive off or away, to remove (freq. and class.; cf.: repello, amolior).

Lit.

In gen.:

hostes a portā,

Caes. B. G. 7, 50:

hostes ex muro ac turribus,

id. B. C. 2, 11:

hostes ex agro Romano trans Anienem,

Liv. 4, 17, 11:

hostium lembos statione,

id. 45, 10, 2:

recusantes advocatos,

Cic. Quint. 8, 31:

quam (Academiam) summovere non audeo,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 39:

summotā contione,

id. Fl. 7, 15; cf.:

summoto populo,

Liv. 26, 38, 8:

submotis velut in aliam insulam hostibus,

Tac. Agr. 23: maris litora, to remove, extend (by moles), Hor. C. 2, 18, 21:

informes hiemes,

id. ib. 2, 10, 17:

regnum ipsum,

Plin. Pan. 55, 7:

piratas mari,

Flor. 4, 6:

ut legati juberentur, summoto eo (Caesare) milites alloqui,

Vell. 2, 62, 5. — Poet.:

hic spelunca fuit vasto submota reccssu (sc. ex oculis),

Verg. A. 8, 193.—Of things:

ubi Alpes Germaniam ab Italiā summovent,

separate, Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 132:

silva Phoebeos summovet ictus,

wards off, Ov. M. 5, 389.—

In partic.

Of a lictor, to clear away, remove people standing in the way, to make room:

i, lictor, summove turbam,

Liv. 3, 48, 3; 2, 56, 10; 4, 50, 5; 25, 3, 16;

45, 7, 4: nemo submovebatur,

Plin. Pan. 76, 8.— Impers. pass.:

cui summovetur,

Sen. Ep. 94, 60:

sederunt in tribunali, lictor apparuit, summoto incesserunt,

after room had been made, Liv. 28, 27, 15:

incedit (bos) submoto,

Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 185:

summoto aditus,

access after the lictors had made room, id. 45, 29, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.; 45, 7, 4; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. 25; 32; 35.—

Transf., to remove, dispel, etc.:

non gazae neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis et curas,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 10; cf.:

submove vitia,

Sen. Ep. 94, 60.—

In econom. lang., to clear off, sell off stock:

oves,

Col. 7, 3, 14:

agnos,

id. 7, 4, 3.—

Trop., to put or keep away, to withdraw, withhold, remove (syn. sepono): aliquem a re publicā, from civil affairs, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 85:

aliquem administratione reipublicae,

Suet. Caes. 16; cf. id. ib. 28:

reges a bello,

Liv. 45, 23:

sermonem a prooemio,

Quint. 4, 1, 63:

magnitudine poenae maleficio summoveri,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70:

summotus pudor,

Hor. Epod. 11, 18:

scrupulum,

Col. 4, 29, 3:

summovendum est utrumque ambitionis genus,

Quint. 12, 7, 6:

hiemem tecto,

Luc. 2, 385.—

Esp., to banish:

ad Histrum,

Ov. P. 3, 4, 91:

patriā,

id. ib. 4, 16, 47:

aliquem urbe et Italiā,

Suet. Aug. 45 fin.:

summotum defendis amicum,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 41.

sum-mŏvĕo ( subm-), mōvi, mōtum, 2 (sync. form of the pluperf. subj. summosses, Hor. S. 1, 9, 48), v. a., to send or drive off or away, to remove (freq. and class.; cf.: repello, amolior).

Lit.

In gen.:

hostes a portā,

Caes. B. G. 7, 50:

hostes ex muro ac turribus,

id. B. C. 2, 11:

hostes ex agro Romano trans Anienem,

Liv. 4, 17, 11:

hostium lembos statione,

id. 45, 10, 2:

recusantes advocatos,

Cic. Quint. 8, 31:

quam (Academiam) summovere non audeo,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 39:

summotā contione,

id. Fl. 7, 15; cf.:

summoto populo,

Liv. 26, 38, 8:

submotis velut in aliam insulam hostibus,

Tac. Agr. 23: maris litora, to remove, extend (by moles), Hor. C. 2, 18, 21:

informes hiemes,

id. ib. 2, 10, 17:

regnum ipsum,

Plin. Pan. 55, 7:

piratas mari,

Flor. 4, 6:

ut legati juberentur, summoto eo (Caesare) milites alloqui,

Vell. 2, 62, 5. — Poet.:

hic spelunca fuit vasto submota reccssu (sc. ex oculis),

Verg. A. 8, 193.—Of things:

ubi Alpes Germaniam ab Italiā summovent,

separate, Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 132:

silva Phoebeos summovet ictus,

wards off, Ov. M. 5, 389.—

In partic.

Of a lictor, to clear away, remove people standing in the way, to make room:

i, lictor, summove turbam,

Liv. 3, 48, 3; 2, 56, 10; 4, 50, 5; 25, 3, 16;

45, 7, 4: nemo submovebatur,

Plin. Pan. 76, 8.— Impers. pass.:

cui summovetur,

Sen. Ep. 94, 60:

sederunt in tribunali, lictor apparuit, summoto incesserunt,

after room had been made, Liv. 28, 27, 15:

incedit (bos) submoto,

Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 185:

summoto aditus,

access after the lictors had made room, id. 45, 29, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.; 45, 7, 4; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. 25; 32; 35.—

Transf., to remove, dispel, etc.:

non gazae neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis et curas,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 10; cf.:

submove vitia,

Sen. Ep. 94, 60.—

In econom. lang., to clear off, sell off stock:

oves,

Col. 7, 3, 14:

agnos,

id. 7, 4, 3.—

Trop., to put or keep away, to withdraw, withhold, remove (syn. sepono): aliquem a re publicā, from civil affairs, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 85:

aliquem administratione reipublicae,

Suet. Caes. 16; cf. id. ib. 28:

reges a bello,

Liv. 45, 23:

sermonem a prooemio,

Quint. 4, 1, 63:

magnitudine poenae maleficio summoveri,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70:

summotus pudor,

Hor. Epod. 11, 18:

scrupulum,

Col. 4, 29, 3:

summovendum est utrumque ambitionis genus,

Quint. 12, 7, 6:

hiemem tecto,

Luc. 2, 385.—

Esp., to banish:

ad Histrum,

Ov. P. 3, 4, 91:

patriā,

id. ib. 4, 16, 47:

aliquem urbe et Italiā,

Suet. Aug. 45 fin.:

summotum defendis amicum,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 41.

dēfensor, ōris, m., rar. f. [id.].

One who fends, wards, averts, or keeps off:

necis,

Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

periculi,

id. Mur. 2.—

A defender, protector.

In gen. (for syn. cf.:

tutor, praeses, vindex, cognitor, curator, patronus, advocatus, causidicus): paterni juris,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244; cf. id. Mil. 15:

juris et libertatis, id. Rab. perd. 4, 12: octo tribuni plebis, illius adversarii, defensores mei,

id. Mil. 15; cf. Hor. S. 2, 5, 30;

opp. petitor,

Quint. 4, 2, 132:

bonus,

id. 5, 13, 3 et saep.;

opp. accusator,

id. 7, 2, 31; 5, 13, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82 et saep.; cf. patronus. Once fem.:

mulier defensor alicujus,

Dig. 16, 1, 2 fin.:

canes defensores,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9.—

Esp. in plur., defensores, the garrison:

oppidum vacuum ab defensoribus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 12; id. ib. 3, 25 et saep.; Sall. J. 23; Liv. 21, 11; Verg. A. 2, 521; Ov. M. 13, 274 et saep.—

Defensor civitatis, or plebis, or loci, in the later period of the empire (since 365 A.D.), title of a magistrate in the provincial cities, whose chief duty was to afford protection against oppression on the part of the governor;

he was likewise endowed with a subordinate civil jurisdiction,

Cod. Theod. 1, 11; Cod. Just. 1, 55; Just. Inst. 1, 20, 5.—

Of inanimate subjects, as the guards (sublicae) of a bridge, Caes. B. G. 4, 17 fin.