depellunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →depello, depellere, depuli, depulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive/push out//off/away/aside, repel; expel; remove, wean; banish utterly;; dislodge; avert; rebut; veer away; force to withdraw/desist; turn out/dismiss;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...aera longa potestas,uel quod ab occiduo depellunt nubila caelotrans Noton et fluuio cogunt incumbere nimbos,uel quod..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...dextro latere summum iugum nacti hostes loco depellunt; fugientes usque ad flumen, ubi Vercingetorix cum pedestribus copiis consederat..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...obsessi, quae crebrior fama, dum nitentis ac progressos depellunt. inde lapsus ignis in porticus adpositas aedibus; mox sustinentes..."