DISTURBANCE Copy link • DISTURBANCEAs act, turbatio: perturbatio (the act of troubling, confusing; e.g., the tranquillity of the state, otii; of the order of things, ordinis perturbatio): interpellatio (interruption [as act, and also as circumstance] by the intervening of an event or the intervention of a person): impedimentum (hindrance; a circumstance or occurrence of a disturbing nature). Without any disturbance (= interruption), sine ulla interpellatione: to cause a disturbance in anything, aliquid interpellare (to interrupt anything) or impedire (to hinder). As state, tumultus (noisy uproar, especially threatening or causing a breach of the public peace). (The words are found in this connection and order.) motus ac tumultus (Cic.); strepitus ac tumultus (Caes.); terror ac tumultus (Liv.): turba (and when used indefinitely, turbae, plur.; interruption of public order). (The words are found in this connection and order.) turba ac tumultus (Cic.); turba et confusio rerum (Cic.); turbae atque seditiones (of seditious disturbances; Sall.); turbae atque discordiae (Tac.). An exciter of disturbances, turbae ac tumultus concitator: to excite disturbances in the camp, efficere turbas in castris: to be making a disturbance (by noisy, passionate language, etc.), tumultuari: that no disturbance may be made, ne quid turbae fiat (Plaut.): what is all this disturbance? quid hoc tumultus est (Ennius, where it is tumulti)? a general disturbance, omnium rerum perturbatio: to cause a general disturbance, omnia miscere et turbare: disturbance of mind, conturbatio mentis (☞ labefactatio is the disturbance as act or cause of the disturbed state of things, Quint., 8, 4, 14): to cause a disturbance in the state, civitatem perturbare; rempublicam labefactare, or conturbare, or quassare (to shake), or dilacerare (to tear it to pieces): to cause ruinous political disturbances in one’s country, lacerare patriam.