To strike: to hit: to smite. Gladio percutere. Cæs. To strike. Lapide percutere aliquem. Cic. To hit. Manu aliquem percutere. Cic. Securi filium percutere. Cic. To behead his sonne. Fores percutere. Plin. To knocke at the doore. Fulmine percuti. Ci. To be blasted or strikÊ with lightning. Pectus percussit manu. Virg. Puppis percutitur rapido Noto. Ouid. Sydere percuti. Mar. To be striken with a planet: to be takÊ: to haue the vse of the limmes taken from him. Animum percutere dicitur res aliqua. Cic. To caste one in a suspition: to cast one in a fantasle: to make one suspect. Cogitatione inani aliquem percutere. Cic. To caste one in a vaine cogitation. Animum alicuius percutere suspicione religionis, Sen. Calamitate aliqua percuti. Cicer. To haue some grieuous stroke of aduersitie. Literis atrocissimis percuti. Cice. To haue verie ill tydings brought him in letters sodainly. Probabilitate animum alicuius percutere. C. To moue ones minde with a certaine probabilitie. Vulnere fortnnæ grauissimo percuti. Cic. To haue a verye grieuous missortune. Percutere aliquem palpo. Plaut. To flatter. Percutere fœdus. Plin. iun. To make league or aliance. In leges hostium fœdus percussit. Pli. iun. He made league with such conditions as the enimies appointed. Cum Barbaris fœdera percussit. Hirt. Percutere fossam. Plin. iun. To dig a ditch or trench.

I. (With the notion of the per predominating.) To strike through and through, to thrust or pierce through (syn.: percello, transfigo).

A. Lit.: percussus cultello, Varr. R. R. 1, 69, 2: gladio percussus, Cic. Mil. 24, 65: Mamilio pectus percussum, Liv. 2, 19, 8: coxam Aeneae, Juv. 15, 66: vena percutitur, a vein is opened, blood is let, Sen. Ep. 70, 13: fossam, to cut through, dig a trench, Front. Strat. 3, 17; Plin. Ep. 10, 50, 4.—

B. Transf., to slay, kill (class.; cf.: neco, perimo, ico, ferio): aliquem securi, to behead, Cic. Pis. 34, 84; id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: collum percussa securi Victima, Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 5; Liv. 39, 43: aliquem veneno, App. M. 10, p. 252, 21: hostem, Suet. Calig. 3; Ov. H. 4, 94.—Hence, percutere foedus, to make a league, conclude a treaty (because an animal was slaughtered on the occasion; only post-Aug. for ferio, ico), Auct. B. Alex. 44: cum Albanis foedus percussit, Just. 42, 3, 4; 43, 5, 10; Vulg. 3 Reg. 5, 12.—

II. (With the idea of the verb predominating.) To strike, beat, hit, smite, shoot, etc. (cf.: ico, pulso, ferio).

A. Lit.

1. In gen. (class.): ceu lapidem si Percutiat lapis aut ferrum, Lucr. 6, 162: cum Cato percussus esset ab eo, qui arcam ferebat, had been struck, Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 279: januam manu, Tib. 1, 5, 68; 1, 6, 3: turres de caelo percussae, struck with lightning, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; cf.: hunc nec Juppiter fulmine percussit, id. N. D. 3, 35, 84: percussus ab aspide calcatā, stung, bitten, Plin. 23, 1, 27, 56; cf.: PERCVSSVS A VIPERA, Inscr. Vermigl. Iscriz. Perug. p. 319; Plin. 28, 3, 6, 30; 28, 4, 10, 44: color percussus luce refulgit, struck, Lucr. 2, 799; cf. Ov. M. 6, 63; Val. Fl. 1, 495: auriculae (voce) percussae, Prop. 1, 16, 28: percussus vocibus circus, Sil. 16, 398.—Neutr.: sol percussit super caput, Vulg. Jonae, 4, 8.—

2. In partic.

a. To strike, stamp, coin money (post-Aug.): ut nummum argenteum notā sideris Capricorni percusserit, Suet. Aug. 94; id. Ner. 25. —

b. To strike, play a musical instrument (poet.): lyram, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 40; Val. Fl. 5, 100.—

c. As t. t. in weaving, to throw the shuttle with the woof: (lacernae) male percussae textoris pectine Galli, badly or coarsely woven, Juv. 9, 30.—

d. Haec meraclo se percussit flore Libyco (=vino Mareotico), to get drunk, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 16 (cf.: sauciare se flore Liberi, Enn. ap. Fulg. 562, 25).—

B. Trop.

1. To smite, strike, visit with calamity of any kind (class.): percussus calamitate, Cic. Mur. 24, 49: percussus fortunae vulnere, id. Ac. 1, 3, 11: ruina, Vulg. Zach. 14, 18: anathemate. id. Mal. 4, 6: plaga, id. 1 Macc. 1, 32: in stuporem, id. Zach. 12, 4.—

2. To strike, shock, make an impression upon, affect deeply, move, astound (class.): percussisti me de oratione prolatā, Cic. Att. 3, 12, 3; id. Mil. 29, 79: audivi ex Gavio, Romae esse hominem, et fuisse assiduum: percussit animum, it struck me, made me suspicious, id. Att. 4, 8, b, 3: animos probabilitate, id. Tusc. 5, 11, 33: percussus atrocissimis litteris, id. Fam. 9, 25, 3: fragor aurem percutit, Juv. 11, 98.—

3. To cheat, deceive, impose upon one (class.): aliquem probe, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 9: hominem eruditum, Cic. Fl. 20, 46: hominem strategemate, id. Att. 5, 2, 2: aliquem palpo, to flatter, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 28.—

4. (Acc. to II. A. 2. a.) To strike, stamp (post-Aug.): facta dictaque tua unā formā percussa sunt, Sen. Ep. 34, 3.