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.
