STRIKE Copy link • STRIKETransitively, PROP., pulsare aliquid aliqua re: percutere aliquid aliqua re. To strike one’s head against the wall, caput illidere or impingere parieti (with a murderous intention from despair). To strike the lyre, pulsare chordas lyrae (†). To strike with fists, aliquem pugnis caedere; aliquem colaphis pulsare; with a club, aliquem fusti verberare; fusti in aliquem animadvertere; aliquem verberibus caedere, or in aliquem verberibus animadvertere. “To strike anything home” [Vid. HOME, adverb]. To strike with the fist and on the face, alicujus os manu pulsare; pugnum alicui impingere in os: to strike with the flat of the hand on the cheek, alicui alapam ducere: to strike with a stick, aliquem or aliquid petere baculo: struck by lightning, fulmine ictus, percussus (Cic.); ictu fulminis attactus (of trees, inscription); de caelo percussus (e.g. turres, Cic.): to be struck dead by lightning, ictu fulminis deflagrare (Cic.; of Phaeton). PHR., To strike sail, vela subducere demittereque antennas (PROP.); to anybody, *velis subductis se victum tradere alicui (PROP.); cedere alicui (IMPROP.). To strike a balance, conferre, conficere rationes: to strike a bargain with anybody, pacisci cum aliquo; pactionem facere or conficere cum aliquo (☞ not convenire cum aliquo; but we may say, res convenit mihi cum aliquo; convenimus inter nos). To strike fire, ignem elidere e silice; ignem silici excudere (Vid: Verg., Georg., 1, 135). To strike (=coin), percutere numos (e.g., with this impression, hac nota; post-Augustan, in this sense). Figuratively, (a) To surprise by novelty: a thing strikes me, moveor or commoveor re; percutit aliquid animum meum (produces a sudden and powerful expression): res habet aliquid offensionis (is offensive). (b) To appear unusual, esse notabilem (to be remarkable; of persons and things): conspici, conspicuum esse (to attract the attention; of persons and things; Vid: Bremi, Nep., Att., 13, 5, and Suet., Oct., 45). Intransitively, (Of a clock), *indicare horas. To cease from working, opere faciundo cessare; nolle operam suam mercede collocare.