To put or thrust out: to expell: to driue away: to make to recule or giue back: to strike: to stirre or mooue: to vexe or grieue. Fugari & pelli. Cic. Facilè pellas vbi velis. Ter. You may easily thrust him out of dores when ye will. Inimicos pellere tectis. Ouid. A foribus pellere. Plaut. De eo nulla ratione neque pelli, neque moueri potes. Cicer. Thou canst not in any wise be perswaded or remooued from that fantasie. Quum è foro pellerentur. Cic. Pulsus ex ea regione. Plin. Pellere in exilium. Cic. To banish: to cast into banishment. Domo pellere aliquem. Cic. To thrust one out of his house. Miles pellitur foras. Terent. The souldiout is thrust out of the doores. Nulla meipsum priuatim pepulit insignis iniuria. Cicer. No notable afflictiõ hath touched or grieued me particularly. Pelli patria, ciuitate, agro. &c. Cic. To be driuen out of. Pelli regno, aut sedibus. Cic. Pellere aciew. Cæs. To repell an army and make it recule. Canities pellens lasciuos amores. Horat. Hore haires putting away wanton loue. Non mediocri cura Scipionis animum pepulit. Liu. It did not a little rrouble Scipios minde. Animum pellit species vtilitatis. Cicero. The appearance or shewe of prufite moueth the minde. Crimina pellere ab aliquo. Ouid. Curas pellere vino. Horat. To drinke wine to the ende to be mery. Glande famem pellere. Ouid. Frigus pellere. Plin. Humum pellere pedibus. Catul. To strike the earth with his feete. Longi sermonis initium pepulisti Artice, rémque commouisti noua disputatione dignam, Cic Thou bast mooued, stirred, or begon a great matter to common of. Nec pudeat pepulisse lyram. Ouid. Be not ashamed to haue played on the harpe. Metum pellere. Cic. To put away. Mœstitiam ex animis pellere. Cic. Moram pellere. Horat. To put away all delay: to doe with speede. Morbos pellere arte Phœbea. Ouid. To cure diseases. Pericula pellere. Hor. Sitim pellere. Hor. Segnes somnos pellere, Col. To remoue slouthfull sleepe: to waken. Vestigia intrantis pepulere somnum. Sil. Timores pellere. Virg. Timorem animo pellere. Plaut.

I. Lit.

A. In gen. (mostly poet.; syn.: trudo, percutio): pueri pulsi, Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 48: pectora pellite tonsis, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. tonsa, p. 356 Müll. (Ann. v. 235 Vahl.): terram pede, Lucr. 5, 1402: ter pede terram (in the tripudium), Hor. C. 3, 18, 15: humum pedibus, Cat. 61, 14: fores, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 4; 5, 3, 2: impetu venientium pulsae fores, Tac. A. 11, 37: spumat sale rate pulsum, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 378 Vahl.); cf.: unda pulsa remis, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 162, 30; so, vada remis, Cat. 64, 58: (arbor) ventis pulsa, Lucr. 5, 1096.—

B. In partic.

1. To drive out or away, to thrust or turn out, expel, banish; esp. milit., to drive back, discomfit, rout the enemy (freq. and class.; syn.: fugo, elimino, deicio); constr. with abl., with ex, rarely with de; also with ab and abl. of the place from which one is repelled or driven back, but has not entered: cum viri boni lapidibus e foro pellerentur, Cic. Pis. 10, 23; so, omnes ex Galliae finibus, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 11; and: praesidium ex arce, Nep. Pelop. 3 fin.: a foribus, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 113: istum ab Hispaniā, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2: patriis ab agris Pellor, Ov. M. 14, 477; cf. Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 9: aliquem a sacris, Ov. Ib. 624: possessores suis sedibus, Cic. Off. 2, 22, 78: aliquem sedibus, Sall. J. 41, 8: aliquem possessionibus, Cic. Mil. 27, 74: aliquem civitate, id. Par. 4, 1, 27: loco, Liv. 10, 6: patria, Nep. Arist. 1: aliquem regno, Hor. S. 1, 6, 13; Just. 35, 1, 3.—Of inanim. objects: aquam de agro, Plin. 18, 26, 62, 230: tecta, quibus frigorum vis pelleretur, Cic. Off. 2, 11, 13: placidam nives pectore aquam, Tib. 1, 4, 12; 3, 5, 30: calculos e corpore, Plin. 22, 21, 30, 64.—Without indicating the place whence: qui armis perterritus, fugatus, pulsus est, Cic. Caecin. 11, 31: hostes pelluntur, Caes. B. G. 7, 62, 3; cf.: milites pulsi fugatique, Sall. J. 74, 3: exsules tyrannorum injuriā pulsi, driven out, banished, Liv. 34, 26, 12: Athenienses Diagoram philosophum pepulerunt, Val. Max. 1, 1, 7 ext.— With abl. of manner: pudendis Volneribus pulsus, Verg. A. 11, 56; cf.: si fugisset vulneratus a tergo, etc., Serv. ad loc.—Specifying the place whither: miles pellitur foras, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 11: in exsilium pulsus, Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56.—

2. In milit. lang., to rout, put to flight, discomfit: exercitum ejus ab Helvetiis pulsum et sub jugum missum, Caes. B. G. 1, 7, 4: compluribus his proeliis pulsis, id. ib. 1, 10, 5: Romanos pulsos superatosque, id. ib. 2, 24 fin., etc.; 1, 52; Liv. 2, 50; Just. 1, 6, 13; 2, 12, 26.—

3. To strike, set in motion, impel: inpello, sagitta pulsa manu, Verg. A. 12, 320.—

4. Of a musical instrument, to strike the chords, play: nervi pulsi, struck, Cic. Brut. 54, 199: lyra pulsa manu, Ov. M. 10, 205; cf.: classica pulsa, i. e. blown, Tib. 1, 1, 4.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to strike, touch, move, affect, impress, etc. (class.): totum corpus hominis et ejus omnis vultus omnesque voces, ut nervi in fidibus, ita sonant, ut a motu animi quoque sunt pulsae, Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216; cf. of sound: Ille canit, pulsae referunt ad sidera valles, Verg. E. 6, 84: sonat amnis, et Asia longe Pulsa palus, id. A. 7, 702: quemadmodum visa nos pellerent, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 30; cf.: visa enim ista cum acriter mentem sensumve pepulerunt, id. ib. 2, 20, 66; id. Fin. 2, 10, 32: quod (dictum) cum animos hominum aurisque pepulisset, id. Or. 53, 177: species utilitatis pepulit eum, id. Off. 3, 10, 41: fit saepe, ut pellantur animi vehementius, id. Div. 1, 36, 80: nec habet ullum ictum, quo pellat animum, id. Fin. 2, 10, 32: nulla me ipsum privatim pepulit insignis injuria, id. Fam. 4, 13, 2: ipsum in Hispaniā juvenem nullius forma pepulerat captivae, Liv. 30, 14, 3: non mediocri curā Scipionis animum pepulit, id. 30, 14, 1: pulsusque residerat ardor, Ov. M. 7, 76: longi sermonis initium pepulisti, you have struck the chord of a long discussion, Cic. Brut. 87, 297.—

B. In partic.

1. To drive out or away, to banish, expel: maestitiam ex animis, Cic. Fin. 1, 13, 43: procul a me dolorem, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 27: pulsus Corde dolor, Verg. A. 6, 382: glandt famem, Ov. M. 14, 216; so, sitim, Hor. C. 2, 2, 14: frigoris vim tectis, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 13: somnum, Sil. 7, 300; Col. poët. 10, 69: Phoebeā morbos arte, Ov. F. 3, 827: vino curas, Hor. C. 1, 7, 31: moram, Ov. M. 2, 838: dolore pulsa est amentia, id. ib. 5, 511: turpia crimina a vobis, id. A. A. 3, 379: umbras noctis, Cat. 63, 41: sidera, Ov. M. 2, 530: nubila, id. ib. 6, 690: tenebras, id. ib. 7, 703; 15, 651.—

2. To beat, conquer, overcome (very rare): si animus hominem pepulit, actum'st: animo servit, non sibi; Sin ipse animum pepulit, vivit, victor victorum cluet, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 27 sq.: alicui pudicitiam, id. Ep. 4, 1, 15.