AGITATE Copy link • AGITATEPROP. to put in motion, movere, commovere: agitare (to move to and fro, up and down, etc.): quatere, quassare, concutere, conquassare (to shake): incitare (to put in rapid motion; opposed to tardare): labefacere, labefactare (to make to totter). ImPROP. to disturb, commovere (to move): turbare, conturbare (to disturb): percutere, percellere (figuratively, to strike violently, make a violent impression; the former of a sudden, the latter of an abiding impression and its consequences): the mind, animum impellere, gravius afficere, commovere, permovere: anybody, aliquem percutere; alicujus animum graviter commovere: the state (seditiously), rempublicam quassare, concutere, convellere, labefactare, dilacerare (the last, to tear to pieces): violently, rempublicam atrociter agitare (Sall., Jug., 37, 1): the empire, regnum concutere, labefactare; imperium percutere: the people, civium animos sollicitare; cives, plebem, etc., sollicitare, concitare: aeditionem, tumultum facere, concitare; seditionem commovere, concire (of excitingthem to an uproar). A question, agere rem or de re (general term to treat it, discuss it): disputare, disserere de aliqua re (of the disctissions of learned men, the latter, especially, of a continued discourse): sermo est de re (of a conversational discussion, whether of two persons or more): aliquid in controversiam vocaro, deducere, adducere (to call it into dispute). Observe, agitare quaestionem is, to think it over, weigh it in the mind. To be agitated, in controversia esse or versari; in controversiam deductum esse; in contentione esse or versari; in disceptatione versari: to begin to be agitated, in contentionem venire; in controversiam vocari, adduci, deduci.