I.to drive out or away, thrust out or away, to eject, expel (class.).
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.
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.