Expergefacio, expergefácis, pen. cor. expergefâcere. Plautus. To waken one out of sleepe.Expergefacere malum aliquod.Plaut.To stirre vppe a mischiefe that before was quiet.Se expergefacere.Cic.To awake.Terrore ubitò expergefacit Italiam tumultus. Author ad Heren. Stirreth vp with a sodaine feare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
expergē-făcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a. [expergo], to awaken, rouse.I.Lit.: expergefactus e somno, Suet. Calig. 6; 38; id. Aug. 94: repente, id. Claud. 8; Vulg. Gen. 41, 4 al.—II.Transf., in gen., to arouse, stir up, excite: si forte expergefacere te posses, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, 38: Italiam terrore subito, Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45: Musaea mele per chordas digitis expergefacta, awoke, i. e. produced, Lucr. 2, 413: flagitium, i. e.