lacesso

lăcesso, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3 ( inf. pass. lacessiri, Col. 9, 8, 3; 9, 15, 4; Ambros. Ep. 6, 1:

lacessi,

Liv. 31, 18, 4 al.; Lact. 5, 2, 2:

lacessientium,

Liv. 27, 12, 13:

lacessiebant,

id. 23, 46, 11 ), v. a. [lacio; v. Roby, 1, § 625], to excite, provoke, challenge, exasperate, irritate (syn.: irrito, provoco).

I.

Lit.:

aliquem ferro,

Cic. Mil. 31, 84:

sponsione me homo promtus lacessivit,

id. Pis. 23, 55:

tu ultro me maledictis lacessisti,

id. Phil. 2, 1, 1:

me amabis et scripto aliquo lacesses,

by writing, force me to write in return, id. Fam. 12, 20:

vetus si poeta non lacessisset prior,

Ter. Phorm. prol. 14:

hostes proelio,

i. e. to attack, assail, Caes. B. G. 4, 11:

aliquem bello,

id. ib. 6, 5:

Aeduos injuriā,

id. ib. 1, 35:

nos te nulla lacessiimus injuria,

Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 1:

Saguntini nec lacessentes nec lacessiti,

Liv. 21, 11:

aliquos lacessiturus bello,

id. 28, 28; Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 23:

quorum alter relictus, alter lacessitus,

id. ib. 2, 4:

quid tam necessarium quam tenere semper arma, quibus... to ulcisci lacessitus,

id. de Or. 1, 8, 32:

ne rudis agminum sponsus lacessat leonem,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 11:

Caesar neque cedentes tanto collis ascensu lacessendos judicabat,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 14:

aliquem capitaliter,

to make a deadly attack upon one, Plin. Ep. 1, 5:

(corpora) quae feriunt oculorum acies visumque lacessunt,

to strike, meet, Lucr. 4, 217; 691; cf. id. 4, 597:

nares odor lacessit,

id. 4, 691:

fores nondum reserati carceris acer nunc pede nunc ipsa fronte lacessit Equus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 30.— Poet.:

aëra Sole lacessita ( = percussa radiis solis),

struck with the sunbeams' glitter, Verg. A. 7, 527; cf.

vindemia pluviisque aut ventis lacessita,

Col. 3, 21, 5.—

II.

Transf., in gen.

A.

To urge, arouse, excite, stimulate, shake, move:

a quo non modo impulsi sumus ad philosophas scriptiones, verum Etiam lacessiti,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 121:

ad scribendum,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1:

ad pugnam,

Liv. 2, 45 init.:

usus luxuriantis aetatis signaturas pretiosis gemmis coepit insculpere, et certatim haec omnis imitatio lacessivit,

Macr. S. 7, 13, 11: aurigae manibusque lacessunt Pectora plausa cavis, pat them on their breasts (in order to animate them), Verg. A. 12, 85:

pugnam,

id. ib. 5, 429:

bella,

id. ib. 11, 254:

ne quemquam voce lacessas,

id. E. 3, 51:

his se stimulis dolor ipse lacessit,

Luc. 2, 42:

Nilus spuma astra lacessit,

id. 10, 320:

taurus lacessit campum,

Stat. Th. 12, 604:

clamore sidera,

Sil. 17, 387:

deos (precibus),

to assail, importune, Hor. C. 2, 18, 12:

pelagus carinā,

to stir, chafe, id. ib. 1, 35, 7.—

B.

To call forth, arouse, produce:

sermones,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 7:

ferrum,

Verg. A. 10, 10.