Excio, excis, excîui, excîtum, pen. pro. excîre, vel Excieo, excíes, excíui, éxcitum. pen. corr. exciêre. Plaut.To call out: to prouoke or stirre: to raise vp: to waken.Excire foras.Plaut.To call foorth of doores.Excire iuuentutem ex Italia.Cicer.To call the youth oute of Italie. Excire somno, vel ex somno. Li. To waken out of sleepe.Excire cubilibus.Liu.To caile out of their beddes.Excire animas sepulchris.Virg.To raise soules. Excire lachrymas alicui. Plautus. To make one weepe: in make teares trickle downe his cheekesMolem in vndis excite.Virg.To raise a tempest in the sea.Excire hostem ad dimicandum.Liu.To prouoke or sturre his enimie to fight.Excire tumultum.Liu.To raise.Excire aliquem ad cupiditatem discendi.Liu.To sturre vp.In arma excire aliquem.Stat.In pugnam excire. Lucan. To sturre to battaile.Canes exciuêre suem.Ouidius.The houndes put vp a wilde sowe.Sonitus excitur pedibus. Lucre. They make a noise with.Excitur omne Hernicum nomen, omnis militaris ætas Liu.They raise or call vp all of the name of Hernicians.
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ex-cĭo, īvi or ii, itum (long and short equally freq.; cf. excĭtus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40; Lucr. 4, 1207; Cat. 61, 11; 63, 42; 64, 56; Verg. A. 4, 301; 7, 376; 12, 445; Ov. M. 2, 779 al.: excītus, Lucr. 4, 1215; Verg. A. 3, 675; 7, 642; 10, 38; Ov. M. 8, 338; 11, 384; Sil. 7, 635; Luc. 1, 239 al.; also acc. to cieo, ēre: excies, Att. Trag. 300 (Rib. Trag. Fragm. p. 175): exciet, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 1; inf. exciere, Liv. 7, 11, 11; imperf. excibat, id. 32, 13: excibant, Sil. 9, 182), 4, v. a., to call out or forth, to bring out: exciet, excutiet, Paul. ex Fest. p. 80, 4 Müll. (freq. in the ante-class. and post-Aug. periods; perhaps not in Cic., for in Phil. 12, 7, 16, the better reading is excussimus; v. excutio; and for excita, Cic. Mur. 17 fin. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 80, both the MSS. and editions of Cic. have excitata). I.Lit.: auxilia e Germania Britanniaque excivit segniter, Tac. H. 2, 97: consulem ab urbe, Liv. 3, 2: homines sedibus, id. 32, 13: sellularii exciti (ad militiam) dicuntur, id. 8, 20 init.: animas imis sepulcris, Verg. E. 8, 98: suem latebris, Ov. M. 10, 711: Urgulaniam domo principis, Tac. A. 4, 21: quid est quod me excivisti ante aedes?Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 1; so, aliquem foras, id. Trin. 5, 2, 52: hostem ad dimicandum acie, Liv. 2, 30: Volscos ad expugnandam secum Ardeam, id. 4, 9, 11: auxilia, id. 45, 4, 3: juventutem Celtiberorum, id. 28, 24, 4; cf.: in pugnam, Luc. 6, 12: in arma, Stat. Th. 4, 146: in proelia, Luc. 7, 361: principibus coloniae Romam excitis, Liv. 3, 4, 5.—Absol.: exciente buccina Tritone, Suet. Claud. 21 fin.—B.Transf., of inanim. and abstr. objects, to bring out or forth; to call forth, produce: semina per artus, Lucr. 4, 1215: lacrimas alicui, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 114; Tac. A. 11, 2: crepitum, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 16: sonitum pedibus, Lucr. 2, 327: molem (i. e. tempestatem) in undis, Verg. A. 5, 790: vim morbi, Lucr. 4, 665 et saep.—II.Trop.A.To rouse, excite; to frighten, terrify any one: sopore, Lucr. 4, 37; cf.: excita anus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 36 ed. Vahl.); cf. also: clamor subito ortus dictatorem quoque ex somno excivit, Liv. 4, 27, 6: somno excitus, Sall. J. 72 fin.: Mauri atque Gaetuli, ignoto et horribili sonitu repente exciti, id. ib. 99, 2: inter cetera, quae ad exciendum in Graeciam Antiochum dicere est solitus, Liv. 36, 7: excivit ea caedes Bructeros, etc., Tac. A. 1, 51: qualis commotis excita sacris Thyias, Verg. A. 4, 301; esp. freq. in the part. perf.; see the passages quoted init.; cf. also: (juventus) privatis atque publicis largitionibus excita, Sall. C. 37, 7: ita conscientia mentem excitam vastabat, id. ib. 15, 4: Evander concursu pastorum, excitus, Liv. 1, 7, 9: Britanni omnium civitatium vires exciverant, Tac. Agr. 29.—Poet.: pulsuque pedum tremit excita tellus,