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stĭmŭlo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id.,
I.to prick with a goad, to prick or goad on, to urge on (syn. pungo).
I. Lit. (post-Aug. and rare): “quadrijugos flagello,Sil. 4, 439: “equos calcaribus,Val. Max. 3, 2, 9; for which, poet. transf.: “turbatos currus,Luc. 7, 570; Sil. 16, 367: “aries stimulatus,Col. 7, 3, 5.—
B. In gen., to rouse up, set in motion; to spur on, incite, stimulate to any action (syn. cieo, excio).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (33):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 3.12.4
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.15.2
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 2.6
    • Cicero, For Plancius, 28.69
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 12.1
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.235
    • Plautus, Captivi, 3.4
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 2.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.576
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.44
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.620
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.423
    • Lucan, Civil War, 7.570
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.32
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.38
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.32
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 68.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 40.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 30, 11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 44, 44
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 22.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 23.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 11
    • Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum, 2
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 18
    • Ovid, Tristia, 1.6
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.3.5
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.7.8
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 5.11.7
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.5.19
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 7.7.26
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 3.2.9
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