Percello, percellis, perculi, pen. corr. & perculsi, perculsum, percellere. Tere. To strike and ouerthrowe: to mooue: to stirre: to pierce.Cuspide perculit.Ouid.He strooke him with.Ferro perculerat leænam.Stat.Hee ouerthrewe the lyonesse with his Iauelin.Flectentem cornua stipite perculit.Ouid.Percellere & euertere.Cic.To beate dowue and ouerthrowe.Percellere & labefactare aliquem. Cice. To abashe and ouerthrowe one.Percelli & recreari, contraria.Cic.To be stricken out of hart and courage.Perculiteum illud. Cice. That abated his courage, or stroke him to the heart.Si te fortè dolor aliquis perculerit, exclamabis vt mulier. C. If any sorrow shall vexe thee, or pierce thy bearee.Percellere alicuius pectus pauore. Liuius. To strike one to the hart with feare: sore to trouble and abash ones hart with feare.Vox perculit vrbem. Valer. Flac. Abashed.Perculsit me. Hor. It mooned my spirits: it much delighted me.Quum vnam vel alteram pestis perculit. Colum. When the pestilent infection hath attached one or two of them.Repentina vi, ac tempestate populari percelli.Cic.Hæc te vox non perculit? non perturbauit? Cic.Did not this saying abash thee? did it not trouble thee? Percellere, pro differre. Lucillus. Ad nouum hoc percellit annum. He deferreth this matter, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-cello, cŭli, culsum, 3 (perculsi for perculi, Amm. 17, 8, 4; 25, 8, 13), v. a. [cf.: procella, celer], to beat down, throw down; to overturn, upset (class.; syn.: percutio, deicio). I.Lit.: ventus Cercius plaustrum oneratum percellit, Cato ap. Gell. 2, 22, 29; cf.: vento perculsam ratem, Afran. ap. Fest. p. 273 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 154 fin. Rib.): magnas quercus, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.): abietem, Varr. ap. Non. 152, 11: alii adnutat ... alii percellit pedem, Naev. ap. Isid. Orig. 1, 25 (Com. Rel. p. 17 Rib.): perii! perculit me prope, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 28; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 87: radicibus arborum, Plin. 18, 34, 77, 334: Mars communis saepe spoliantem jam et exsultantem evertit et perculit ab abjecto, Cic. Mil. 21, 56: eos Martis vis perculit, id. Marc. 6, 17.—Prov.: Perii, plaustrum perculi! I've upset my cart, i. e. I've done for myself, Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 22.—B.Transf., to strike, smite, hit: fetiali Postumius genu femur perculit, Liv. 9, 10 fin.; cf. id. 9, 11, 11: aliquem cuspide, Ov. Am. 2, 9, 7; 1, 7, 32.— Poet.: vox repens perculit urbem,
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, Val. Fl. 2, 91.—II.Trop.A.To cast down, overthrow, ruin, destroy: adulescentiam perculisse atque afflixisse, Cic. Cael. 32, 80; id. Cat. 2, 1, 2; id. Leg. 3, 8, 24: rem publicam, Tac. A. 2, 39: aliquem, Suet. Tib. 55.—B.To strike with consternation, to deject, daunt, dispirit, discourage, dishearten: haec te vox non perculit? non perturbavit?Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, 132: timore perculsi membra, Lucr. 5, 1223: civitates atrocibus edictis, Tac. H. 1, 53; Flor. 1, 10, 2: animos (timor), Val. Fl. 4, 651.— C.To urge on, excite, impel: volucres perculsae corda tuā vi, Lucr. 1, 13: aliquem ad turpitudinem, App. Mag. p. 281.—Perf.: perculit, in a neutr. signif., for perculsus est, Flor. 3, 10, 8.