protrudo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prō-trūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to thrust or push forwards, to thrust forth, push out (class.; syn.: proturbo, propello).

I Lit.: moles protruditur, Lucr. 4, 891; 4, 246 and 280: cylindrum, Cic. Fat. 19, 43: is . . . domo atque nostrā familiā protruditur, Afran. ap. Don. ad Ter. Ad. 480 (Com. Rel. p. 174 Rib.; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. II. p. 121); so, protrudi penatibus, to be thrust out of doors , Amm. 29, 1, 21.—

II Trop., of time, to put off , defer : comitia in Januarium mensem, Cic. Fam. 10, 26, 3.

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