(v. a.P. a.) : ex-cŭtĭo, cussi, cussum, 3 (archaic
* Perf. subj. excussit, for excusserit, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16), v. a. quatio, to shake out or off, to cast out, drive out, to send forth (class., esp. in the trop. sense).
* Lit.
* In gen.: posse ex his (litteris) in terram excussis annales Ennii, ut deinceps legi possint, effici,shaken out,Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 94: equus excussit equitem,threw off,Liv. 8, 7, 10: excussus equo,Verg. A. 11, 640: excussus curru,id. ib. 10, 590; Suet. Caes. 37; Curt. 3, 11; cf.: lectis excussit utrumque,Hor. S. 2, 6, 112: gubernatorem in mare e puppi,Curt. 4, 4 med.; cf. also: ancora ictu ipso excussa e nave sua,Liv. 37, 30, 9: lapide clavum,to knock off,Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 10: pulvis digitis excutiendus erit,Ov. A. A. 1, 150: poculum e manibus,Pers. 3, 101: ignem de crinibus,to shake off,Ov. M. 12, 281: rem de manu alicujus,to strike out,Dig. 47, 2, 53, § 13: Pelion subjectā Ossā (Juppiter),Ov. M. 1, 155: poma venti,to cast down, shake down,id. ib. 14, 764 et saep.: ne nucifrangibula (i. e. dentes) excussit ex malis meis,to knock out,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 16; cf.: cerebrum alicui,id. Capt. 3, 4, 69; id. Aul. 2, 1, 29: oculum alicui cyatho, verberibus,id. Pers. 5, 2, 16; Suet. Tib. 53; cf.: oculo excusso,id. Caes. 68: ipso cum domino calce omnes excutiamus, to drive out or forth, Lucil. ap. Non. 298, 33: Teucros vallo,Verg. A. 9, 68: hostem oppidis et regionibus,Flor. 2, 6, 42: ab obsidione Nolae urbis (with pellere a Campania),id. ib. 29: feras cubilibus,to scare, rouse up,Plin. Pan. 81, 1: si flava excutitur Chloë,be shaken off, cast off,Hor. C. 3, 9, 19: (viros) excussos patriā infesta sequi,Verg. A. 7, 299: ut me excutiam atque egrediar domo,take myself off, decamp,Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 20: quartanas,to drive away,Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 56 et saep.: (leo) gaudet comantes Excutiens cervice toros,shaking about, shaking,Verg. A. 12, 7; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 71: caesariem,Ov. M. 4, 492: pennas,id. ib. 6, 703: habenas,id. ib. 5, 404; cf.: nares inflare et movere ... et pulso subito spiritu excutere, etc.,to blow up, dilate,Quint. 11, 3, 80: se (gallinae edito ovo),Plin. 10, 41, 57, § 116: tela,to hurl, discharge,Tac. A. 2, 20; cf. Curt. 8, 13: fulmen in Thebas,Stat. Th. 10, 69: excussaque brachia jacto,tossed,Ov. M. 5, 596; id. H. 18, 189: (aër) Excussit calidum flammis velocibus ignem,sends out, produces,Lucr. 6, 688; cf. id. 6, 161: largum imbrem (procellae), Curt. 4, 7: lacrimas alicui,Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 59; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15: vomitum alicui,Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 15: sudorem,Nep. Eum. 5 et saep.—Transf.: excutior somno,I am roused from sleep,Verg. A. 2, 302; Ov. H. 13, 111; Hor. S. 2, 6, 112.
* Trop.
* Esp. a garment, to free it from dust: vexatam solo vestem,Petr. 128, 4; Vulg. Act. 18, 6; cf.: excutere de pulvere,shake yourself,Vulg. Isa. 52, 2; and: pulverem de pedibus,id. Matt. 10, 14.
* To stir, move any thing to see under it; and hence, to search, examine a person: St. Di me perdant, si ego tui quicquam abstuli. Eu. Agedum, excutedum pallium, Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 19; so, culcitisque et stragulis praetentatis et excussis,Suet. Claud. 35.—With personal objects: excutiuntur tabellarii, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 4; cf.: verum (porcellum) ut subesse pallio contenderent Et excuti juberent,Phaedr. 5, 5, 19: non excutio te, si quid forte ferri habuisti: non scrutor,Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97.
* In gen., to shake out or off, force away, etc.: omnes istorum delicias, omnes ineptias,to shake off, discard,Cic. Cael. 28, 67: noli aculeos orationis meae, qui reconditi sunt, excussos arbitrari,plucked out, removed,id. Sull. 16, 47: omnia ista nobis studia de manibus excutiuntur,are torn, wrested from our hands,id. Mur. 14, 30; cf.: hanc excutere opinionem mihimet volui radicitus,id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111: severitatem veterem,id. Fam. 9, 10, 2; cf. also: excutient tibi istam verborum jactationem,id. Sull. 8, 24: excute corde metum,remove, banish,Ov. M. 3, 689: diros amores,id. ib. 10, 426: orbem paci excutere,to banish peace from the world,Luc. 1, 69: omnis quae erat conceptae mentis intentio mora et interdum iracundia excutitur,Quint. 10, 3, 20: quem (Senecam) non equidem omnino conabar excutere,id. 10, 1, 126: aliena negotia curo, excussus propriis,Hor. S. 2, 3, 20: dummodo risum excutiat sibi,can raise, produce,id. ib. 1, 4, 35.
* In partic. (acc. to I. B.), to search, examine, inspect, investigate: explicando excutiendoque verbo,Cic. Part. Or. 36, 134; cf.: pervulgata atque in manibus jactata et excussa, qs. shaken out, i. e. examined, id. Mur. 12. 26: illud excutiendum est, ut sciatur quid sit carere,id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88: quae fere omnia Cicero in crimine veneficii excutit,Quint. 5, 7, 37; 12, 8, 13: totum locum,id. 5, 7, 6: aut conjecturā excutiuntur, an vera sint, etc.,id. 5, 13, 19 et saep.— Hence, excussus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, extended, stiff (post-Aug. and rare): interest, utrum tela excusso lacerto torqueantur, an remissa manu effluant,Sen. Ben. 2, 6; so, lacerto,Ov. H. 4, 43: palma excussissima,Petr. 95.—Adv.: excussē, strongly, violently: mittere pilam (with rigide, opp. languidius),Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 4.

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