apisceretur

ăd-ĭpiscor, eptus, 3, v. dep. [apiscor], to arrive at, to reach.

Lit.: occepi sequi;

vix adipiscendi potestas fuit,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 13.—Hence also with acc., to reach, to overtake:

fugientes Gallos Macedones adepti ceciderunt,

Liv. 44, 28; cf. Drak. ad Liv. 2, 30, 14.—Far oftener,

Fig., to attain to by effort, to get, obtain, acquire, to get possession of (by overcoming natural obstacles; diff. from impetrare, to reach or obtain by victory over another's will; and nancisci, by accident, Doed. Syn. III. pp. 145, 146;

IV. p. 369): nuptias effugere ego istas malo quam tu adipiscier,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 32: senectutem ut adipiscantur, omnes optant;

eandem accusant adepti,

Cic. de Sen. 2, 4:

summos honores a populo Romano,

id. Clu. 43:

amplissimos dignitatis gradus,

id. Fam. 10, 6:

gloriam,

Vulg. Eccli. 44, 7; 46, 3:

quanta instrumenta (homo) habeat ad obtinendam adipiscendamque sapientiam,

id. Leg. 1, 22, 59 al.; so Caes. B. G. 5, 39; Nep. Them. 9; id. Chabr. 2; Sall. C. 11, 7; Liv. 1, 32; Vell. 2, 116; Tac. A. 11, 22; Suet. Aug. 16; Vulg. Heb. 6, 15.— With ex:

adeptum esse omnia e natura et animo et corpore et vitā,

Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19; cf. id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; 2, 23, 59.—With ut. adepti sunt, ut dies festos agitare possent, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21.— Absol.:

non potestis adipisci,

Vulg. Jac. 4, 2.

iis adipiscendi magistratus, they should strive for public honors (the consequens for the antecedens), Cic. Off. 1, 21, 72.—

Nero in adipiscenda morte (Epaphroditi) manu adjutus existimabatur, i. e. consciscenda, in committing suicide, Suet. Dom. 14 Oud.; cf. Ov. Tr. 2, 92; Front. 4, 4, 15; and:

invenire mortem,

Verg. A. 2, 645. —

Pass.:

non aetate, verum ingenio, adipiscitur sapientia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 88: haec [p. 37] adipiscuntur, C. Fannius ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.: amitti magis quam adipisci, Fab. Maximus, ib.;

so esp. adeptus,

Cic. de Sen. 2, 4; Sall. C. 7; id. J. 101; Tac. A. 1, 7, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; cf. Gell. 15, 13; Prisc. 790 sq.; Rudd. I. p. 288; Kritz ad Sall. C. 7, 3.—

With gen.:

arma, quīs Galba rerum adeptus est,

Tac. A. 3, 55; ib. 6, 45 (here Halm reads apisceretur); Rudd. II. p. 120; Zumpt, § 466.

ăpiscor, aptus, 3, v. dep. [apo] (class., but more rare than the compd. adipiscor; in the post-Aug. per. most freq. in Tac.), orig., to reach after something, in order to take, seize, or get possession of it (syn.: peto, sequor, adquiro, attingo); hence, in gen.,

To pursue ( with effort, zeal, etc.):

sine me hominem apisci,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 3.—And as the result of the pursuit,

To take, seize upon:

etenim nullo cessabant tempore apisci Ex aliis alios avidi contagia morbi,

Lucr. 6, 1235.—

To reach, attain to, get, gain, acquire ( by effort, trouble, etc.; cf. adipiscor), both lit. and trop.: quod ego objectans vitam bellando aptus sum, Pac. ap. Non. p. 234, 25:

hereditatem,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 8: cupere aliquid apisci, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 74, 30; so id. ib. p. 74, 23: aliquem, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 68, 25:

maris apiscendi causā,

Cic. Att. 8, 14 fin.: laudem, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5 fin.:

aliquid animus praegestit apisci,

Cat. 64, 145:

spes apiscendi summi honoris,

Liv. 4, 3:

jus,

Tac. A. 6, 3:

summa apiscendi libido,

id. ib. 4, 1:

qui id flaminum apisceretur,

id. ib. 4, 16:

apiscendae potentiae properi,

id. ib. 4, 59:

cujus (artis) apiscendae otium habuit,

id. ib. 6, 26 al.— Once in Tacitus with gen. like the Gr. tunchanein tinos: dominationis, A. 6, 45.— Poet., to reach something in mind, i. e. to perceive, understand:

Nec ratione animi quam quisquam possit apisci,

Lucr. 1, 448.

, Manil. 3, 145; Tac. A. 3, 31; 13, 20 al.; cf. adipiscor.