illīdo (inl-), si, sum, 3, v. a. in-laedo, to strike or dash against or upon, to beat against, to strike, dash or beat in any direction. Lit. (mostly poet., not in Cic. prose; cf.: incutio, impingo, infligo): libravit caestus effractoque illisit in ossa cerebro, Verg. A. 5, 480: ad vulnus manus, Cic. poet. Tusc. 3, 31, 76 fin.: (naves) vadis, Verg. A. 1, 112: repagula ossibus, Ov. M. 5, 121: funale fronti, id. ib. 12, 250: dentem fragili (corpori), Hor. S. 2, 1, 77: caput foribus, Suet. Aug. 23: superbissimos vultus solo, Plin. Pan. 52, 4: linum illisum crebro silici, Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 18: fluctus se illidit in litore, Quint. 10, 3, 30 Zumpt N. cr.: quos Rex suus illisit pelago, drove to the sea, i. e. forced to navigate the sea, Val. Fl. 7, 52: avidos illidit in aegrum Cornipedem cursus, i. e. guides, Stat. Th. 11, 517.

— Transf., to strike or dash to pieces (very rare): illisis cruribus, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 10: serpens compressa atque illisa morietur, Cic. Har. Resp. 25 fin.