(verb) : prō-pello (prŏpellat, Lucr. 4, 195; 6, 1026), pŭli, pulsum, 3
* Lit., to drive before one's self, to drive, push, or urge forward, to drive forth; to hurl, propel, hurl or cast down, to overthrow (class.; syn.: proturbo, protrudo): sacerdotem anum praecipem propulit,Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 8: oves potum,Varr. R. R. 2, 2: in pabulum,id. ib. 2, 2: aëra prae se,Lucr. 4, 286: propellere ac submovere hostes,Caes. B. G. 4, 25: hostem a castris,Liv. 7, 24: nubes,Gell. 2, 22, 24: in profundum e scopulo corpora,Ov. M. 8, 593: hastam,Sil. 16, 571: urbem,to overthrow,Val. Fl. 6, 383: muros Oechaliae,to throw down,Sen. Herc. Oet. 162; cf.: orationem propellere dialecticorum remis,Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: si paulo largius L. Caecilium pietas et fraternus amor propulisset,id. Sull. 23, 64.
* Trop.
* To push or thrust forward (post-Aug.): cruda studia in forum,Petr. 4.
* To drive on, impel, incite, urge (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): corpus,Lucr. 3, 160: terrore carceris ad voluntariam mortem,Tac. A. 11, 2: agmina voce,Sil. 7, 530.
* To drive away, to keep or ward off: periculum vitae ab aliquo,Liv. 40, 11 fin.: famem,Hor. S. 1, 2, 6: injurias hominum ac ferarum,Col. 7, 12, 2.

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