revello

rĕ-vello, velli, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a., to pluck or pull away, to pull or tear out, to tear off or away (freq. and class.).

I.

Lit.:

tela de corpore,

Cic. Pis. 11, 25:

nascentis equi de fronte revolsus amor,

Verg. A. 4, 515:

titulum de fronte,

Ov. P. 4, 13, 7:

telum altā ab radice,

Verg. A. 12, 787:

caput a cervice,

id. G. 4, 523; cf.:

cornu a fronte,

Ov. M. 9, 86:

saxum e monte,

id. ib. 12, 341:

partem e monte,

id. ib. 13, 882:

a silvis silvas et ab arvis arva,

id. ib. 8, 584:

ab aliquo morte revelli,

to be torn away, id. ib. 4, 152:

scuta manibus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52:

axem temone,

Ov. M. 2, 316; cf.:

sudem osse,

id. ib. 12, 300:

arborem manibus tellure,

id. R. Am. 87:

quos Sidoniā urbe,

to tear away, remove, Verg. A. 4, 545:

puerum,

Ov. F. 6, 515:

solio regem,

Sil. 16, 273:

herbas radice,

with the root, Ov. M. 7, 226; so,

too, annosam pinum solido trunco,

id. ib. 12, 356:

illam crucem, quae fixa est ad portum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26:

tabulam,

id. ib. 2, 2, 46, §

112: Gorgonis os pulcherrimum revellit atque abstulit,

id. ib. 2, 4, 56, §

124: gradus,

id. Pis. 10, 23:

saepta,

id. Phil. 5, 4, 9:

claustra,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 52; Liv. 5, 21:

janua, quā effractā et revolsā, tota pateret provincia,

Cic. Mur. 15, 33:

vincula,

id. Caecin. 25, 70:

paene fores templi,

Suet. Calig. 6:

templa,

Luc. 3, 115:

revulsis venis,

opened, Sen. Oedip. 978:

scuta manibus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52:

pellem,

Col. 2, 3, 1:

stipites revincti, ne revelli possent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73:

proximos agri terminos,

to tear away, remove, Hor. C. 2, 18, 24:

signa (when an army decamps),

Luc. 7, 77; Sil. 12, 733:

curvo dente humum,

to tear up, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 14; cf.:

majorum sepulcra,

Auct. Her. 4, 8, 12. — Poet.:

cinerem manesque,

to disturb, violate, Verg. A. 4, 427.—

II.

Trop., to tear away, send away, etc.:

cujus totus consulatus est ex omni monumentorum memoriā revulsus,

Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 26:

injurias honorificis verbis,

id. Att. 5, 20, 11:

alicui avias veteres,

prejudices, Pers. 5, 92:

falsorum persuasionem,

Sen. Ep. 95, 33:

penitus de stirpe imperium,

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 207:

oscula fida,

Stat. S. 3, 2, 57 (with dissipat amplexus).