exstimulo
δρυὸς πεσούσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλεύεται → when the oak falls, everyone cuts wood | when an oak has fallen, every man gathers wood | on the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood | when an oak has fallen, every man becomes a woodcutter | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his strength | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his power | when the tree is fallen, every man goes to it with his hatchet
Latin > English
exstimulo exstimulare, exstimulavi, exstimulatus V :: goad; stimulate
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ex-stĭmŭlo: (ext-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to prick up, to goad (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). *
I Lit.: aculeo, Plin. 9, 37, 61, § 132.—
II Trop., to goad on, excite, instigate, stimulate: aliquem dictis, Ov. F. 6, 588: corda furore bellandi, Sil. 1, 38; cf.: armentum libidinis furiis, Col. 6, 27, 3: tigrim fame, Ov. M. 5, 165: animum, Tac. A. 15, 50: libidinem, Col. 8, 11, 8: fata cessantia, i. e. to hasten death, Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 29. —Pass.: exstimulatur a libertis, ut ostenderet, Tac. A. 4, 59.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
exstĭmŭlō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre, tr., piquer fortement : Plin. 9, 132 || [fig.] aiguillonner, stimuler, exciter, animer : Ov. F. 6, 588 ; Tac. Ann. 15, 50 ; exstimulatur, ut Tac. Ann. 4, 59, on le pousse à.
Latin > German (Georges)
ex-stimulo (extimulo), āvī, ātum, āre, aufstacheln, I) eig.: exstimulatae aculeo, Plin. 9, 132. – II) übtr.: hunc innata libido exstimulat, Ov.: illum ambiguum novus insuper nuntius contumeliae exstimulat, Tac.: exstimulate cessantia fata, Ov.: talis laudatio animos adulescentium exstimulat, Sen.: exstimulans animos nunc probris nunc prece mixtā, Prud.: exstimulata libido, Col.
