rĕ-vello — Lewis & Short
rĕ-vello, velli, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a.,
I to pluck or pull away, to pull or tear out, to tear off or away (freq. and class.).
I Lit.:
tela de corpore,Cic. Pis. 11, 25:
nascentis equi de fronte revolsus amor,Verg. A. 4, 515:
titulum de fronte,Ov. P. 4, 13, 7:
telum altā ab radice,Verg. A. 12, 787:
caput a cervice,id. G. 4, 523; cf.:
cornu a fronte,Ov. M. 9, 86:
saxum e monte,id. ib. 12, 341:
partem e monte,id. ib. 13, 882:
a silvis silvas et ab arvis arva,id. ib. 8, 584:
ab aliquo morte revelli,to be torn away, id. ib. 4, 152:
scuta manibus,Caes. B. G. 1, 52:
axem temone,Ov. M. 2, 316; cf.:
sudem osse,id. ib. 12, 300:
arborem manibus tellure,id. R. Am. 87:
quos Sidoniā urbe,to tear away, remove, Verg. A. 4, 545:
puerum,Ov. F. 6, 515:
solio regem,Sil. 16, 273:
herbas radice,with the root, Ov. M. 7, 226; so,
too, annosam pinum solido trunco,id. ib. 12, 356:
illam crucem, quae fixa est ad portum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26:
tabulam,id. ib. 2, 2, 46, §
112: Gorgonis os pulcherrimum revellit atque abstulit,id. ib. 2, 4, 56, §
124: gradus,id. Pis. 10, 23:
saepta,id. Phil. 5, 4, 9:
claustra,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 52; Liv. 5, 21:
janua, quā effractā et revolsā, tota pateret provincia,Cic. Mur. 15, 33:
vincula,id. Caecin. 25, 70:
paene fores templi,Suet. Calig. 6:
templa,Luc. 3, 115:
revulsis venis,opened, Sen. Oedip. 978:
scuta manibus,Caes. B. G. 1, 52:
pellem,Col. 2, 3, 1:
stipites revincti, ne revelli possent,Caes. B. G. 7, 73:
proximos agri terminos,to tear away, remove, Hor. C. 2, 18, 24:
signa (when an army decamps),Luc. 7, 77; Sil. 12, 733:
curvo dente humum,to tear up, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 14; cf.:
majorum sepulcra,Auct. Her. 4, 8, 12. — Poet.:
cinerem manesque,to disturb, violate, Verg. A. 4, 427.—
II Trop., to tear away, send away, etc.:
cujus totus consulatus est ex omni monumentorum memoriā revulsus,Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 26:
injurias honorificis verbis,id. Att. 5, 20, 11:
alicui avias veteres,prejudices, Pers. 5, 92:
falsorum persuasionem,Sen. Ep. 95, 33:
penitus de stirpe imperium,Claud. in Rufin. 2, 207:
oscula fida,Stat. S. 3, 2, 57 (with dissipat amplexus).