expello

ex-pello, pŭli, pulsum, 3, v. a., to drive out or away, thrust out or away, to eject, expel (class.).

I.

Lit.:

haec tanta virtus ex hac urbe expelletur, exterminabitur, proicietur?

Cic. Mil. 37, 101:

me ex re publica,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 2:

expulsus atque ejectus e praedio Quinctius,

id. Quint. 7, 28; cf.:

exturbari et expelli plebem ex agris,

id. Agr. 2, 31, 84: a patria, id. Sest. [p. 693] 13, 30:

naves ab litore in altum,

Liv. 41, 3, 2:

me domo mea expulistis, Pompeium domum suam compulistis,

Cic. Pis. 7, 16:

aliquos agris,

Caes. B. G. 4, 4, 2:

humiliores possessionibus,

id. ib. 6, 22, 3:

hostes finibus,

id. ib. 4, 3 fin.; cf.:

finibus expulsus patriis,

Verg. A. 1, 620:

me civitate,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 1:

aliquem regno,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 5; cf.:

potestate expulsi,

Nep. Milt. 3, 5 et saep.:

nostri majores et Collatinum expulerunt, et reliquos Tarquinios,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31; cf.:

expulso Tarquinio (shortly after, pulso Tarquinio),

id. ib. 2, 30:

me in pace patriā meā expulit,

Liv. 35, 19, 4; so,

aliquam patriā,

Nep. Thras. 1, 5; id. Epam. 6, 3; cf.

also: in exsilium expulsus,

Cic. Lael. 12, 42:

Hannibalem in exsilium (Carthago),

Liv. 38, 50, 7: expulsa atque exturbata filia, rejected, repudiated (as a wife), Cic. Clu. 5, 14; so,

uxorem,

Just. 9, 5:

edicit suis, postero die porta Esquilina expellerent pecus,

drive out, Liv. 2, 11, 5:

sagittam arcu,

to let fly, shoot, Ov. M. 3, 381; cf.:

expulsuri tela nervos retro tendimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6: se in auras (pondus), forced itself out. i. e. came forth, Ov. M. 9, 705:

ad componendum Orientis statum expulsus,

forced to hurry away, Suet. Calig. 1:

naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 24.

II.

Trop., to force out, drive out or away, expel, remove:

aliquem vita,

Cic. Mur. 16, 34; cf.

aevo,

Lucr. 3, 358:

me periculo,

delivered myself, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 41:

haec (superbiam, luxum, desidias, etc.) ex animo dictis,

Lucr. 5, 50:

laetitias ex omni pectore,

Cat. 76, 22:

corde desidiam,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24:

curas pectore,

Luc. 3, 53:

per vulnera mille Sontem animam,

Ov. M. 6, 617:

vitam,

Tac. A. 16, 19:

morbum bilemque helleboro meraco,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 137:

somnos (haec dicta),

Ov. H. 14, 72; cf.

quietem,

id. M. 8, 830:

quae res omnem dubitationem adventus legionum expulit,

removed, Caes. B. G. 5, 48 fin.:

beneficiorum memoriam,

id. B. C. 1, 34, 3; Quint. 6, 8, 16:

spem metus expulerat,

Ov. F. 6, 245:

sententia expulsa,

rejected, Plin. Ep. 8, 14 fin.: dedititios per constitutionem, to abolish as a class, i. e. to remove the legal disabilities of, Just, Inst. 1, 5, 3.