(v. a.P. a.) : rĕ-pello, reppuli (less correctly repuli), rĕpulsum, 3, v. a.
* To drive, crowd, or thrust back; to reject, repulse, repel, etc., = reicere (freq. and class.; syn.: reicio, repono, removeo).
* Lit.: eum ego meis Dictis malis his foribus atque hac reppuli, rejeci hominem,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 19: aliquem foribus,Hor. S. 2, 7, 90: foribus tam saepe repulsus,Ov. Am. 3, 11, 9: homines inermos armis,Cic. Caecin. 12, 33: adversarius, qui sit et feriendus et repellendus,id. de Or. 2, 17, 72: aliquem ab hoc templo,id. Phil. 14, 3, 8: homines a templi aditu,id. Dom. 21, 54: Sabinos a moenibus urbis,id. Rep. 2, 20, 36: hostes a ponte,Caes. B. C. 1, 16; ab castris,id. ib. 1, 75: a citeriore ripā,Front. Strat. 1, 4, 10: aliquem inde,Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63: hostes in silvas,Caes. B. G. 3, 28 fin.: in oppidum,id. ib. 3, 22fin.; id. B. C. 2, 14fin.— Absol.: nostri acriter in eos impetu facto, repulerunt,Caes. B. G. 5, 17. —Of impersonal objects (mostly poet.): reppulit mihi manum,Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 14; cf. Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 72: telum aere repulsum,repelled,Verg. A. 2, 545: mensas,to push back,Ov. M. 6, 661; cf. aras,id. ib. 9, 164: repagula,to shove back,id. ib. 2, 157: tellurem mediā undā,crowds back,id. ib. 15, 292: navem a terrā, Auct. B. Alex. 20: serpentes,Amm. 14, 2, 5. — Poet., of the apparent pushing back or away of the starting-point, in flying up or sailing away: Oceani spretos pede reppulit amnes,Verg. G. 4, 233; cf.: cum subito juvenis, pedibus tellure repulsā, Arduus in nubes abiit,spurning the ground,Ov. M. 4, 710: impressā tellurem reppulit hastā,id. ib. 2, 786; 6, 512: aera repulsa,i. e. cymbals struck together,Tib. 1, 3, 24; 1, 8, 22; cf.: aera Aere repulsa,Ov. M. 3, 533.
* Trop., to drive away, reject, remove; to keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse, etc.: repelli oratorem a gubernaculis civitatum,Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46: aliquem a consulatu,id. Cat. 1, 10, 27: ab hoc conatu,id. Or. 11, 36: a cognitione legum,id. Balb. 14, 32: ab impediendo ac laedendo,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 14, 55: ab hac spe repulsi Nervii,Caes. B. G. 5, 42: repulsum ab amicitiā,Sall. J. 102, 13: fracti bello fatisque repulsi,Verg. A. 2, 13: repulsus ille veritatis viribus,Phaedr. 1, 1, 9: hinc quoque repulsus,Nep. Lys. 3: per colloquia repulsus a Lepido,Vell. 2, 63, 1. — Of suitors for office,Cic. Planc. 21, 51: haud repulsus abibis,Sall. J. 110, 8; Liv. 39, 32. — Of lovers: saepe roges aliquid, saepe repulsus eas,Prop. 2, 4, 2 (12): proci repulsi,Ov. M. 13, 735: aliquam ad meretricium quaestum,to drive,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 43.— Of abstract objects: dolorem a se repellere,Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30: furores Clodii a cervicibus vestris,id. Mil. 28, 77: illius alterum consulatum a re publicā,id. Att. 7, 18, 2: quod tamen a verā longe ratione repulsum'st,removed,Lucr. 1, 880; cf. id. 2, 645; 5, 406: tegimenta ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 6, 767: cute ictus, Ov. M. 3, 64: pericula,Cic. Mur. 14, 30; Caes. B. C. 1, 79, 2: vim (opp. inferre),Cic. Mil. 19, 51: crimen (with transferre),Quint. 4, 2, 26: temptamina,Ov. M. 7, 735: facinus,id. ib. 15, 777: fraudem,id. A. A. 3, 491: verba,id. P. 4, 1, 19: ver hiemem repellit,id. M. 10, 165: conubia nostra,to reject, disdain,Verg. A. 4, 214 amorem, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 76: preces,id. M. 14, 377: diadema,to refuse, reject,Vell. 2, 56, 4; Suet. Caes. 79; cf. dictaturam,Vell. 2, 89, 5: ut contumelia repellatur,be discarded,Cic. Off. 1, 37, 137.— Hence, rĕpulsus, a, um, P. a., removed, remote; once in Cato: ecquis incultior, religiosior, desertior, publicis negotiis repulsior, Cato ap. Fest. p. 286, and ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 287 Müll.