I.to thrust, push, shove; to crowd or shove forward; to press on, drive, impel (class.; syn.: pello, expello).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “vis haec quidem hercle est et trahi et trudi simul,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 92: “quas mihi tenebras trudis?” id. Ep. 3, 4, 40: “trudit et impellit,” Lucr. 6, 1032: “adverso trudere monte saxum,” id. 3, 1000: “montem pectore,” Verg. G. 3, 373: “(hostes) trudunt adversos,” Tac. A. 2, 11: “glaciem cum flumina trudunt,” Verg. G. 1, 310: “ille hinc trudetur largus lacrimarum foras,” Plaut. As. 3, 1, 30: “apros in plagas,” Hor. Epod. 2, 31: “ad proelia inertem,” id. Ep. 1, 5, 17: “semet in arma,” Tac. H. 5, 25.—
B. In partic., of growth, to push forth, put forth, send forth (poet.): “(pampinus) trudit gemmas,” Verg. G. 2, 335: “se de cortice (gemmae),” id. ib. 2, 74: “truditur e sicco radix oleagina ligno,” id. ib. 2, 31: offenso truditur igne latex, Claud. de Apono, 13.—
II. Trop.: secundae res laetitiă transvorsum trudere solent a recte consulendo atque intellegendo, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: “ad mortem trudi,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: in quae (comitia) omnibus invitis trudit noster Magnus Auli filium, puts forward (to bring him into office), id. Att. 1, 16, 12: “quo ne trudamur, di immortales nos admonent,” id. Har. Resp. 28, 61: “in vitia alter alterum trudimus,” Sen. Ep. 41, 7: “semel in arma trusos,” Tac. H. 5, 25: truditur dies die, Hor, C. 2, 18, 15, cf.: sic vita truditur, is hurried on, Petr 82: “fallacia Alia aliam trudit,” presses hard upon, closely follows the other, Ter. And. 4, 4, 40.
