I.to frighten or scare away, to drive away by terror, to affright, terrify (rare but class.): “filium Proterruisti hinc,” Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 37: “aliquem adverso equo,” Verg. A. 12, 291: “aliquem jaculo parmāque,” Stat. Th. 2, 645: “feras ardentibus facibus,” App. M. 8, p. 208, 39; Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 77: “patriā pulsus atque proterritus,” Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 5: “tu a tuis aedibus vi atque armis proterritus,” id. Caecin. 13, 37; 9, 24; 11, 31: “proterritis hostibus atque in fugam conjectis,” Caes. B. G. 5, 58.
prō-terrĕo , ŭi, ĭtum, 2,