(v. a.P. a.) : per-turbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
* To throw into confusion or disorder, to confuse, disturb (cf.: confundo, misceo).
* Lit.: omnia,Ter. And. 3, 4, 22: provinciam,Cic. Sull. 20, 56: aetatum ordinem,id. Brut. 62, 223: condiciones pactionesque bellicas perjurio,id. Off. 3, 29, 108: dies intermissus aut nox interposita saepe perturbat omnia,id. Mur. 17, 35: reliquos (milites) incertis ordinibus perturbaverunt,Caes. B. G. 4, 32: aciem,Sall. J. 59, 3: domum,Sen. Thyest. 83.—Pass., Plin. Pan. 76, 8.
* Transf., to mix or mingle together: omnia subtiliter cretā permisceas cum salibus torrefactis ac tritis et diu oleo injecto perturbes,Pall. 12, 18.
* Trop., to disturb, discompose, embarrass, confound: mea consilia,Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 127: mentes animosque perturbat timor,Caes. B. G. 1, 39: clamore perturbari,Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 18: animum, joined with concitare,id. Or. 37, 128: de rei publicae salute perturbari,id. Mil. 1, 1: haec te vox non perculit? non perturbavit?Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 132: magno animi motu perturbatus,id. Att. 8, 11, 1.—Hence, perturbātus, a, um, P. a.
* Troubled, disturbed, unquiet: mihi civitatem perturbatam vestris legibus et contionibus et deductionibus tradidistis,Cic. Agr. 1, 8, 23: perturbatissimum tempestatis genus,Sen. Q. N. 7, 10, 3: flamma quassatae rei publicae perturbatorumque temporum,Cic. Sest. 34, 73.
* Disturbed, embarrassed, discomposed: homo perturbatior metu,Cic. Att. 10, 14, 1: sane sum perturbatus cum ipsius familiaritate,id. ib. 1, 1, 4.—Subst.: per-turbāta, ōrum, n., confused visions, perverted truths: nunc onusti cibo et vino perturbata et confusa cernimus,Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60.—Adv.: perturbātē, confusedly, disorderly: ne quid perturbate, ne quid contorte dicatur,Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 29; id. Or. 35, 122: muta animalia perturbate moveri,Sen. Ep. 124, 19.

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