depulere
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ipsa, damnatura sui non est delicta mariti. postera depulerant Aurorae lumina noctem: egredior silvamque peto victorque per herbas..." - P
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...confugerant Armenii, alterum impetu captum; qui primam vim depulerant, obsidione coguntur. unde in regionem Tauraunitium transgressus improvisum periculum..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...regressu sacra Samothracum visere nitentem obvii aquilones depulere. igitur adito Ilio quaeque ibi varietate fortunae et nostri origine..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...nobis incesta. Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere, caeso ariete velut in contumeliam Hammonis..."