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prō-pello (prŏpellat, Lucr. 4, 195; 6, 1026), pŭli, pulsum, 3, v. a.
I. Lit., to drive before one's self, to drive, push, or urge forward, to drive forth; to hurl, propel, hurl or cast down, to overthrow (class.; “syn.: proturbo, protrudo): sacerdotem anum praecipem propulit,Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 8: “oves potum,Varr. R. R. 2, 2: “in pabulum,id. ib. 2, 2: “aëra prae se,Lucr. 4, 286: “propellere ac submovere hostes,Caes. B. G. 4, 25: “hostem a castris,Liv. 7, 24: “nubes,Gell. 2, 22, 24: “in profundum e scopulo corpora,Ov. M. 8, 593: “hastam,Sil. 16, 571: “urbem,to overthrow, Val. Fl. 6, 383: “muros Oechaliae,to throw down, Sen. Herc. Oet. 162; cf.: “orationem propellere dialecticorum remis,Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: “si paulo largius L. Caecilium pietas et fraternus amor propulisset,id. Sull. 23, 64.—
II. Trop.
A. To push or thrust forward (post-Aug.): “cruda studia in forum,Petr. 4.—
B. To drive on, impel, incite, urge (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “corpus,Lucr. 3, 160: “terrore carceris ad voluntariam mortem,Tac. A. 11, 2: “agmina voce,Sil. 7, 530.—
C. To drive away, to keep or ward off: “periculum vitae ab aliquo,Liv. 40, 11 fin.: “famem,Hor. S. 1, 2, 6: “injurias hominum ac ferarum,Col. 7, 12, 2.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 4.25
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 23.64
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.593
    • Plautus, Rudens, 3.3
    • Horace, Satires, 1.2.6
    • Tacitus, Annales, 11.2
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.160
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 24
    • Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 162
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 4.5
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.383
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.22.24
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.12.2
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