disturbo

dis-turbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to drive asunder, to separate by violence, to throw into disorder, disturb.

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen. (rarely):

vidistis contionem gladiis disturbari,

Cic. Mil. 33 fin.:

sortes,

id. Div. 1, 34 fin.:

freta (Auster),

Sen. Hippol. 1012. —Far more freq. and class. (but not in the Aug. poets),

B.

Pregn., to demolish, destroy (esp. freq. of buildings):

aedes,

Lucr. 2, 1102; so,

domos,

id. 6, 241:

domum meam,

Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19:

urbes,

Lucr. 6, 587:

porticum Catuli,

Cic. Att. 4, 3 et saep.:

ignis cuncta disturbat ac dissipat,

id. N. D. 2, 15, 41: opera, * Caes. B. C. 1, 26, 1:

si qua in vineis fossor disturbavit,

Col. 11, 2, 38.—

II.

Trop., to frustrate, thwart, ruin:

at nunc disturba quas statuisti machinas,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137: vitae societatem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111; cf.

concordiam,

Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 19 ed. Gerl. (Orat. L. Philippi); so,

disturbare atque pervertere legem,

Cic. Agr. 2, 37, 101:

judicium tollere ac disturbare,

id. Sull. 5, 15; cf. ib. 25, 71:

rem,

to hinder, prevent, id. Fam. 11, 21 fin.; cf.

nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 11.