repulsa

rĕpulsa, ae, f. [repello; prop. Part., sc. petitio]; publicists' t. t., a refusal, denial, repulse in soliciting for an office:

Catonem veteres inimicitiae Caesaris incitant et dolor repulsae,

Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

omnes magistratus sine repulsā assequi,

Cic. Pis. 1, 2; cf.:

qui sine repulsā consules facti sunt,

id. Agr. 2, 2, 3; so,

sine repulsā,

id. Planc. 21, 51;

and, on the other hand: Laelii unum consulatum fuisse cum repulsā,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54: repulsam ferre, to be rejected, to lose one ' s election, id. de Or. 2, 69, 280; so (the class. technical phrase) id. Phil. 11, 8, 19; id. Att. 5, 19, 3 al.; cf.: [p. 1574] a populo repulsam ferre, id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

repulsam referre,

id. Off. 1, 39, 138; cf.:

Mamerco praetermissio aedilitatis consulatus repulsam attulit,

id. ib. 2, 17, 58:

repulsam consulatūs pati,

Pac. Pan. Theod. 12:

nunciatā fratris repulsā in consulatus petitione,

Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122:

turpis repulsa,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 43:

virtus, repulsae nescia sordidae,

id. C. 3, 2, 17:

repulsam solari,

Tac. A. 2, 36:

repulsā notatus,

Val. Max. 7, 5, 1.—In plur.:

quid ego aedilicias repulsas colligo?

Cic. Planc. 21, 52 (cf. shortly before:

C. Marius duabus aedilitatibus repulsus): videntur offensionum et repulsarum quasi quandam ignominiam timere et infamiam,

id. Off. 1, 21, 71:

nobis reliquere pericula, repulsas, judicia, egestatem,

Sall. C. 20, 8.—

II.

Transf., in gen., a rejection, denial, refusal, repulse (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

Echedemus fatigatos tot repulsis Aetolos ad spem revocavit,

Liv. 37, 7, 4: posce aliquid;

nullam patiere repulsam,

Ov. M. 2, 97: elige;

nullam patiere repulsam,

id. ib. 3, 289; cf.:

sint tua vota secura repulsae,

id. ib. 12, 199:

amor crescit dolore repulsae,

id. ib. 3, 395; cf.

Veneris,

id. ib. 14, 42:

longae nulla repulsa morae,

no repulse caused by long delays, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 26:

in hanc (tristitiam) omnis ira post repulsam revolvitur,

Sen. Ira, 2, 6, 2:

indignatio repulsae,

App. M. 10, p. 255, 35.