dis-pello, pŭli, pulsum, 3
* V. a., to drive asunder, to scatter, disperse (rare but class.).
* Lit.: dispulsa suo de coetu materiaï Copia,Lucr. 1, 1017: pecudes dispulsae,Cic. Att. 7, 7, 7: ater quos aequore turbo Dispulerat,Verg. A. 1, 512; cf. ib. 538: umbras,id. ib. 5, 839: aequora prorā,Stat. Th. 5, 335.
* Trop., to scatter, drive away, dispel: (philosophia) ab animo tamquam ab oculis caliginem dispulit,Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 64; cf.: tenebras calumniae,Phaedr. 3, 10, 42: somnos,Sen. Troad. 452: curas,Sil. 8, 164: inediae metum,Amm. 14, 7.

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