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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- dis-pello, pŭli, pulsum, 3, v. a., to drive asunder, to scatter, disperse (rare but class.). I. Lit.:
dispulsa suo de coetu materiaï Copia
, Lucr. 1, 1017: pecudes dispulsae
, Cic. Att. 7, 7, 7: ater quos aequore turbo Dispulerat
, Verg. A. 1, 512; cf. ib. 538: umbras
, id. ib. 5, 839: aequora prorā
, Stat. Th. 5, 335.—II. Trop., to scatter, drive away, dispel: (philosophia) ab animo tamquam ab oculis caliginem dispulit
, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64; cf.: tenebras calumniae
, Phaedr. 3, 10, 42: somnos
, Sen. Troad. 452: curas
, Sil. 8, 164: inediae metum
, Amm. 14, 7.
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