dispello
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dis-pello: pŭli, pulsum, 3,
I v. a., to drive asunder, to scatter, disperse (rare but class.).
I Lit.: dispulsa suo de coetu materiaï Copia, Lucr. 1, 1017: pecudes dispulsae, Cic. Att. 7, 7, 7: ater quos aequore turbo Dispulerat, Verg. A. 1, 512; cf. ib. 538: umbras, id. ib. 5, 839: aequora prorā, Stat. Th. 5, 335.—
II Trop., to scatter, drive away, dispel: (philosophia) ab animo tamquam ab oculis caliginem dispulit, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64; cf.: tenebras calumniae, Phaedr. 3, 10, 42: somnos, Sen. Troad. 452: curas, Sil. 8, 164: inediae metum, Amm. 14, 7.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dispellō,¹³ pŭlī, pulsum, ĕre, tr., [s’emploie ordint au pf et part.],
1 disperser, dissiper : Cic. Att. 7, 7, 7 ; Virg. En. 1, 512
