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ex-pello, pŭli, pulsum, 3, v. a., to drive out or away, thrust out or away, to eject, expel (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: haec tanta virtus ex hac urbe expelletur, exterminabitur, proicietur? Cic. Mil. 37, 101: me ex re publica, id. Fam. 6, 6, 2: expulsus atque ejectus e praedio Quinctius, id. Quint. 7, 28; cf.: exturbari et expelli plebem ex agris, id. Agr. 2, 31, 84: a patria, id. Sest. 13, 30: naves ab litore in altum, Liv. 41, 3, 2: me domo mea expulistis, Pompeium domum suam compulistis, Cic. Pis. 7, 16: aliquos agris, Caes. B. G. 4, 4, 2: humiliores possessionibus, id. ib. 6, 22, 3: hostes finibus, id. ib. 4, 3 fin.; cf.: finibus expulsus patriis, Verg. A. 1, 620: me civitate, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 1: aliquem regno, Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 5; cf.: potestate expulsi, Nep. Milt. 3, 5 et saep.: nostri majores et Collatinum expulerunt, et reliquos Tarquinios, Cic. Rep. 2, 31; cf.: expulso Tarquinio (shortly after, pulso Tarquinio), id. ib. 2, 30: me in pace patriā meā expulit, Liv. 35, 19, 4; so, aliquam patriā, Nep. Thras. 1, 5; id. Epam. 6, 3; cf. also: in exsilium expulsus, Cic. Lael. 12, 42: Hannibalem in exsilium (Carthago), Liv. 38, 50, 7: expulsa atque exturbata filia, rejected, repudiated (as a wife), Cic. Clu. 5, 14; so, uxorem, Just. 9, 5: edicit suis, postero die porta Esquilina expellerent pecus, drive out, Liv. 2, 11, 5: sagittam arcu, to let fly, shoot, Ov. M. 3, 381; cf.: expulsuri tela nervos retro tendimus, Quint. 10, 3, 6: se in auras (pondus), forced itself out. i. e. came forth, Ov. M. 9, 705: ad componendum Orientis statum expulsus, forced to hurry away, Suet. Calig. 1: naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 24.
  2. II. Trop., to force out, drive out or away, expel, remove: aliquem vita, Cic. Mur. 16, 34; cf. aevo, Lucr. 3, 358: me periculo, delivered myself, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 41: haec (superbiam, luxum, desidias, etc.) ex animo dictis, Lucr. 5, 50: laetitias ex omni pectore, Cat. 76, 22: corde desidiam, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24: curas pectore, Luc. 3, 53: per vulnera mille Sontem animam, Ov. M. 6, 617: vitam, Tac. A. 16, 19: morbum bilemque helleboro meraco, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 137: somnos (haec dicta), Ov. H. 14, 72; cf. quietem, id. M. 8, 830: quae res omnem dubitationem adventus legionum expulit, removed, Caes. B. G. 5, 48 fin.: beneficiorum memoriam, id. B. C. 1, 34, 3; Quint. 6, 8, 16: spem metus expulerat, Ov. F. 6, 245: sententia expulsa, rejected, Plin. Ep. 8, 14 fin.: dedititios per constitutionem, to abolish as a class, i. e. to remove the legal disabilities of, Just, Inst. 1, 5, 3.