deturbo

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dē-turbo: āvi, ātum, 1,
I v. a., to drive, thrust, or cast down, to throw or beat down, sc. in a violent, tumultuous manner (freq. and class.; orig. perh. peculiar to milit. lang.).
I Lit.: aliquem de pugnaculis, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 63: nostros de vallo lapidibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 2; cf.: aliquem ex vallo, id. B. C. 3, 67, 4: Macedones ex praesidiis stationibusque, Liv. 31, 39 fin.; and so in a milit. sense with the simple acc., Caes. B. G. 5, 43 fin.; Liv. 10, 41; 25, 13 al.; and absol., Tac. A. 4, 51: de tecto tegulas, Plaut. Rud. 1, 1, 5: Trebonium de tribunali, Caes. B. C. 3, 21, 2; cf.: aliquem certa re et possessione, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 2: fucos a sedibus suis, Pall. Jun. 7 et saep.: statuam, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 41 fin.; id. Pis. 38, 93; cf. aedificium, to pull or tear down, id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 7 et saep.: Phaëthonta equis in terram, Lucr. 5, 402; cf.: praecipitem ab alta puppi in mare, Verg. A. 5, 175: aliquem in viam, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 6; id. Mil. 2, 2, 6: caput orantis terrae, to strike to the ground, i. e. to cut off, Verg. A. 10, 555.—
II Trop. (repeatedly in Cic.; elsewhere rare): aliquem de sanitate ac mente, to deprive of, Cic. Pis. 20, 46: aliquem ex magna spe, id. Fam. 5, 7: de fortunis omnibus P. Quinctius deturbandus est, id. Quint. 14, 47: haec verecundiam mi et virtutis modum deturbavit, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 60.— With abl. alone: neque solum spe, sed certa re jam et possessione deturbatus est, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 2; id. Rep. 3, 20, 30.