I.to drive out of its position or place; to stir up, rouse up, disturb.
I. Lit. (very seldom): “ut quicquid faecis subsederit exagitet, et in summum reducat,” Col. 12, 19, 4: “vis (venti) exagitata foras erumpitur,” Lucr. 6, 583. —Poet.: “lustra ferarum Venatu,” to disturb, Sil. 16, 553: “lepus hic aliis exagitandus erit,” to rouse, start, Ov. A. A. 3, 662; cf. Petr. 131, 7.—
II. Trop., to rouse up (qs. like a wild beast), to disquiet, harass, persecute, disturb, torment.
A. In gen.: “insectandis exagitandisque nummariis judicibus,” Cic. Att. 1, 16, 8; cf. Prop. 2, 8, 19: “permulti sedes suas patrias, istius injuriis exagitati, reliquerant,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18: “ab Suevis complures annos exagitati bello premebantur et agricultura prohibebantur,” Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 2; cf. id. ib. 2, 29 fin.: “at omnes di exagitent me, si, etc.,” Hor. S. 2, 6, 54; cf. Ov. F. 5, 141: “exagitari verberibus Furiarum,” Suet. Ner. 34: “quos flagitium, egestas, conscius animus exagitabat,” Sall. C. 14, 3: “senatus vulgi rumoribus exagitatus,” id. ib. 29, 1: “rem publicam seditionibus,” id. ib. 51, 32.—
B. In partic.
1. To scold, rail at, to attack violently, to censure, criticise, satirize, rally (cf.: objurgo, improbo, increpo, vitupero, calumnior, reprehendo; “peto, incuso, etc.): hi omnes convicio L. Lentuli consulis correpti exagitabantur,” Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 4: “cum etiam Demosthenes exagitetur ut putidus,” Cic. Or. 8 fin.; cf. Suet. Aug. 86: “inventi sunt, qui hanc dicendi exercitationem exagitarent atque contemnerent,” Cic. de Or. 3, 16: “in rebus palam a consularibus exagitatis et in summam invidiam adductis,” id. Fam. 1, 1 fin.; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3: “exagitabantur omnes ejus fraudes atque fallaciae,” Cic. Clu. 36, 101; cf. id. Sull. 21: “quod apud Lucilium scite exagitat in Albucio Scaevola, quam lepide lexeis compostae, etc.,” id. Or. 44, 149.—
2. To stir up, irritate, excite: “coepere (tribuni) senatum criminando plebem exagitare,” Sall. C. 38, 1; cf. “vulgum,” id. J. 73, 5.—In a good sense: “hujus disputationibus et exagitatus maxime orator est et adjutus,” incited, urged onwards, Cic. Or. 3, 12.—Of abstract objects: “in tali tempore tanta vis hominis leniunda quam exagitanda videbatur,” Sall. C. 48, 5; Tac. A. 4, 12.—
b. Transf., to stir up, excite the passions themselves: ne et meum maerorem exagitem et te in eundem luctum vocem, Cic. Att. 3, 7, 2; “tristes curas,” Luc. 8, 44: “furores immiti corde,” Cat. 64, 94.
