make straight

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

cor-rĭgo ( conr-), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to make straight, set right, bring into order.

Lit. (rare):

catenas,

Cato, R. R. 18 fin.:

alicui digitum,

Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

verbaque correctis incidere talia ceris,

smoothed out, erased, Ov. M. 9, 529: corpus informe gibbo, Aug. ap. Macr. S. 2, 4:

vulvas conversas,

Plin. 24, 5, 13, § 22; cf.:

malas labentes,

Suet. Aug. 99:

cursum (navis),

Liv. 29, 27, 14; cf.:

se flexus (fluminum),

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 16.—

Prov.:

curva,

to attempt to make crooked straight, Plin. Ep. 5, 21, 6; Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. 8, 3.—Far more freq. and class.,

Trop., to improve, amend, correct, make better, reform, restore, make good, compensate for, etc.

In gen.

With acc.:

aliquem corruptum ad frugem corrigere,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 81:

gnatum mi,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 17:

ita mutat, ut ea, quae corrigere volt, mihi quidem depravare videatur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

praeterita magis reprehendi possunt quam corrigi,

Liv. 30, 30, 7:

tarditatem cursu,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2: errorem paenitendo, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 6, 24; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 12; cf.

mendum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7, 5:

delicta,

Sall. J. 3, 2:

mores (opp. corrumpere),

Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32;

and, mores (with vitia emendare),

Quint. 12, 7, 2:

acceptam in Illyrico ignominiam,

Liv. 43, 21, 4:

quicquid corrigere est nefas,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 20:

dum resque sinit, tua corrigo vota,

Ov. M. 2, 89:

moram celeri cessataque tempora cursu,

id. ib. 10, 670:

ancipitis fortuna temporis maturā virtute correcta,

Vell. 2, 79, 5:

ut tibi sit qui te conrigere possis,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 27:

paterer vos ipsā re conrigi, quoniam verba contemnitis,

Sall. C. 52, 35:

tu ut umquam te corrigas?

Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

tota civitas corrigi solet continentiā,

id. Leg. 3, 13, 30:

aliā ratione malevolus, aliā amator corrigendus,

id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65; id. Mur. 29, 60:

conscius mihi sum... corrigi me posse,

Liv. 42, 42, 8.—Esp. freq. of improving, correcting an (oral or written) discourse, Varr. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.; Cic. Att. 15, 1, B, 2; Quint. 1, 5, 34; Hor. A. P. 438 al.; and of the orator who employs the figure correctio (v. s. v. II.):

cum corrigimus nosmet ipsos quasi reprehendentes,

Cic. Or. 39, 135. —

Absol.:

se fateri admissum flagitium: sed eosdem correcturos esse,

Liv. 5, 28, 8; cf. Suet. Caes. 56.—

In medic. lang., to heal, cure:

lentigines,

Plin. 22, 25, 74, § 156:

maciem corporis,

id. 31, 6, 33, § 66:

cutem in facie,

id. 23, 8, 75, § 144.—Hence, cor-rectus ( conr-), a, um, P. a., improved, amended, correct (very rare):

ut is qui fortuito deliquit, attentior fiat correctiorque,

Gell. 6, 14, 2.—Hence, subst.: correctus, i, m., one who is reformed:

nihil officiunt peccata vetera correcti,

Lact. 6, 24, 5.

līnĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to reduce to a straight line, to make straight or perpendicular.

Lit.:

dolabit, lineabit, secabitque materiam,

Cato, R. R. 14, 3:

bene lineata carina,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 40:

radios,

Vitr. 9, 4, 13.—

Transf., pass. part.

Striped:

basiliscus albis maculis lineatus,

Isid. 12, 4, 7; 16, 12, 4.—

Decked out:

inter comatos lineatosque juvenes,

Hier. Ep. 117, n. 6.

* * *

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

dē-dūco, xi, ctum ( imper.:

deduc,

Cic. Rep. 1, 21, 34;

old form, deduce,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 32), 3, v. a., to lead or bring away, to lead, fetch, bring or draw down (for syn. cf.: duco, comitor, prosequor, persequor, stipo, sequor, consequor—freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.

Not designating a limit:

atomos de via,

to turn from a straight course, Cic. Fat. 9, 18:

eum concionari conantem de rostris,

Caes. B. C. 3, 21, 3:

pedes de lecto,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 82:

suos clam ex agris,

Caes. B. G. 4, 30 fin.; so,

aliquem ex ultimis gentibus,

Cic. Phil. 13, 13:

lunam e curru,

Tib. 1, 8, 21; cf.

the foll.: summā vestem deduxit ab orā,

Ov. M. 3, 480:

cantando rigidas deducere montibus ornos,

Verg. E. 6, 71: lunam caelo id. ib. 8, 69; cf.:

lunam cursu,

Ov. H. 6, 85:

hunc caelo,

id. F. 3, 317:

dominam Ditis thalamo,

Verg. A. 6, 397:

tota carbasa malo,

i. e. to spread, unfurl, by letting down, Ov. M. 11, 477; cf.

the foll.: febres corpore,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 48:

inde boves,

Ov. M. 6, 322:

transfuga duci se ad consules jubet deductusque traditurum urbem promittit,

Liv. 9, 24:

Ubiis imperat, ut pecora deducant suaque omnia ex agris in oppida conferant,

Caes. B. G. 6, 10, 2; cf. Liv. 21, 37: rivos, i. e. to clear out, cleanse ( = detergere, Macr. Sat. 3, 3; Col. 2, 22, 3), Verg. G. 1, 269 Heyne ad loc.; cf.:

aqua Albana deducta ad utilitatem agri suburbani,

conducted off, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69, and v. the foll.:

lunam,

Prop. 1, 1, 19; cf.

Jovem,

the sun, Hor. Epod. 13, 2:

crines pectine,

to comb, Ov. M. 4, 311; cf.:

caesariem barbae dextrā,

id. ib. 15, 656:

vela,

id. ib. 3, 663:

sive aliquis molli deducit candida gestu Brachia,

moves, Prop. 2, 22 (3, 15), 5 (al. diducit); imitated by Stat. Silv. 3, 5, 66 (al. diducit) et saep.—

Stating the limit:

cito hunc deduc ad militem,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 32:

aliquem ad aliquem,

id. ib. 4, 4, 10; Cic. Lael. 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 28 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 18, 3; Sall. J. 113 fin. et saep.:

juvenem ad altos currus,

Ov. M. 2, 106:

suas vestes humero ad pectora,

Ov. M. 6, 405; cf.:

manum ad imum ventrem,

Quint. 11, 3, 112 et saep.:

impedimenta in proximum collem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 68, 2:

aquam in vias,

Cato R. R. 155; Ov. M. 1, 582:

aliquem in conspectum (Caesaris),

Caes. B. C. 1, 22, 2:

aliquem in arcem,

Liv. 1, 18; id. 1, 58:

aliquem in carcerem,

Sall. C. 55:

in arenam,

Suet. Calig. 35: levis deducet pondere fratres, will bring down (the scale), Grat. Cyn. 292. —

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to draw off, lead off, withdraw troops from a place; to lead, conduct, bring to a place: praesidia de locis, Sisenna ap. Non. 289, 15; so with de, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 51, 2; Cic. Att. 7, 14 al.:

exercitum ex his regionibus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19; so with ex, id. ib. 7, 87, 4 fin.; 7, 81 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 12, 3 al.:

legionem ab opere,

id. ib. 3, 69; so with ab, id. ib. 2, 26, 3; Liv. 34, 35 al.:

deducta Orico legione,

Caes. B. C. 3, 34:

exercitum finibus Attali,

Liv. 32, 27: deducto exercitu, Caes. B. G. 6, 43, 3; 7, 20, 11; id. B. C. 3, 39 al.; cf. Oud. ad Caes. B. G. 2, 33, 2:

milites ad Ciceronem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 27, 9:

tres in arcem cohortes praesidio,

id. B. C. 3, 19, 5:

a Flacco inter ceteros, quos virtutis causa secum ex provincia ad triumphum deducebat, deductus sum,

Liv. 42, 34:

copias ex locis superioribus in campum deducit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 40 fin.:

legionibus in hiberna deductis,

id. B. G. 2, 35, 3; so,

in hiberna,

Liv. 26, 20; 43, 9:

in interiorem Galliam,

Caes. B. G. 2, 2; cf.

in Menapios,

id. ib. 4, 22, 5:

in proxima municipia,

id. B. C. 1, 32:

in hiberna in Sequanos,

id. B. G. 1, 54, 2:

in aciem,

Liv. 3, 62:

praesidia eo,

Caes. B. C. 2, 18, 5:

neque more militari vigiliae deducebantur,

Sall. Jug. 44, 5; id. C. 59, 1. —

Pub. law t. t., to lead forth, conduct a colony to a place:

coloni, qui lege Julia Capuam deducti erant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 14, 4; cf. Suet. Caes. 81:

colonos in aliquem locum,

id. ib. 28:

coloniam in aliquem locum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 3; 2, 4; Liv. 10, 1; 10, 13; 34, 45 (repeatedly); Suet. Tib. 4 al.:

Aquileia colonia Latina eo anno in agro Gallorum est deducta,

Liv. 40, 34; cf.:

in colonia Capua deducti,

Suet. Caes. 81:

ut emantur agri a privatis, quo plebs publice deducatur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 25; cf. id. ib. 2, 26;

2, 34, 92: triumvir coloniis deducendis,

Sall. J. 42; cf. Liv. 9, 46; 9, 28; Suet. Aug. 46 al.— Absol.:

deductis olim et nobiscum per conubium sociatis, haec patria est,

Tac. H. 4, 65. —

Nautical t. t.

To draw out a ship from the docks:

ex navalibus eorum unam (navem) deducit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 3, 2:

deducunt socii naves,

Verg. A. 3, 71.—Hence far more freq. meton., like the Gr. kathelkein, to draw down a ship from the stocks into the sea; to launch, Liv. 21, 17; 41, 9; Caes. B. G. 7, 60:

neque multum abesse (naves) ab eo, quin paucis diebus deduci possent,

id. ib. 5, 2, 2:

naves,

id. ib. 5, 23, 2:

classem,

Liv. 36, 41 al.:

naves litore,

Verg. A. 4, 398:

carinas,

Ov. M. 6, 144; 8, 104 et saep.—

Rarely for subducere and the Gr. katagein, to draw a ship into port:

onerarias naves in portum deducunt,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36, 2:

in portum,

Petr. 101, 8.—

Weavers' t. t., to draw out, spin out the thread, yarn:

dextera tum leviter deducens fila, Catull. 64, 313: filum,

Ov. M. 4, 36; id. Am. 1, 14, 7; id. H. 9, 77.—Hence, meton., to prepare a web, to weave:

vetus in tela deducitur argumentum,

is interwoven, represented in weaving, Ov. M. 6, 69.—

t. t. of common life, to lead out, conduct, escort, accompany a person out of the house, as a mark of respect or for protection:

haec ipsa sunt honorabilia... assurgi, deduci, reduci,

Cic. de Sen. 18, 63:

cum magna multitudo optimorum virorum et civium me de domo deduceret,

id. Fam. 10, 12, 2; Suet. Aug. 29:

ne deducendi sui causa populum de foro abduceret,

Liv. 23, 23 fin.; cf. Tac. A. 3, 14:

a quibus (sc. equitibus Rom.) si domus nostra celebratur, si interdum ad forum deducimur, etc.,

Cic. Mur. 34.—

Esp., to conduct a young man to a public teacher:

dicam hunc a patre continuo ad me esse deductum,

Cic. Cael. 4, 9; id. Lael. 1, 1; Tac. Dial. 34; Quint. 12, 11, 6; cf. ephebum in gymnasium, Petron. 85, 3.—

Aliquam alicui, ad aliquem, to lead, conduct a bride (from her father's house) to her husband (cf. denubo):

bona uxor si ea deducta est usquam cuiquam gentium,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 90; cf.

Catull. 68, 143: virginem juveni marito,

Tib. 3, 4, 31:

uni nuptam, ad quem virgo deducta sit,

Liv. 10, 23:

nullo exemplo deductae in domum patrui fratris filiae,

Tac. A. 12, 5; so,

in domum,

id. ib. 14, 63; so of the bridegroom himself, to take home the bride:

domum in cubiculum,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 60:

uxorem domum,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 60:

quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14 fin.—Absol.:

eas velut auspicibus nobilissimis populis deductas esse,

Liv. 42, 12, 4; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 3, 13.—

In a dishonorable sense, to bring one a concubine, Plaut. Casin. 2, 8, 36; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34; Suet. Calig. 25; id. Caes. 50; id. Ner. 28; cf. also the foll., no. 7.—

To lead about in a public procession, Suet. Tib. 17 fin.:

invidens privata deduci superbo non humilis mulier triumpho,

Hor. Od. 1, 37, 31:

tensas,

Suet. Aug. 43; id. Vesp. 5.—

Hence, to drive out, expel = expellere: Arsinoen ex regno, Auct. B. [p. 527] Alex. 33:

ex possessione,

Liv. 34, 58, 6. —

Jurid. t. t.

Aliquem de fundo, to lead away a person from a disputed possession in the presence of witnesses (with or without force: the latter moribus, the former vi solida), in order to procure him the right of action (this was a symbolic procedure preparatory to an action): appellat Fabius, ut aut ipse Tullium deduceret aut ab eo deduceretur. Dicit deducturum se Tullius, etc., Cic. pro Tull. Fragm. § 20; id. Agr. 2, 26, 68;

placuit Caecinae constituere, quo die in rem praesentem veniretur, et de fundo Caecina moribus deduceretur, etc.,

id. Caecin. 7, 20.—

To bring before a tribunal as a witness:

multi boni ad hoc judicium deducti non sunt,

Cic. Flac. 4, 9.—

To bring to trial:

lis ad forum deducta est,

Phaedr. 3, 13, 3. —

With the accessory idea of diminution, to withdraw, deduct, subtract, diminish:

cibum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 23. And as a mercantile t. t.:

addendo deducendoque videre, quae reliqui summa fiat,

Cic. Off. 1, 18, 59:

ut centum nummi deducerentur,

id. Leg. 2, 21, 53; cf. Cato R. R. 144 sq.:

de capite deducite, quod usuris pernumeratum est,

Liv. 6, 15; cf. Suet. Caes. 42 et saep.—Hence in a double sense: Tertia deducta est (in allusion to the meaning, no. 5, c. b), Suet. Caes. 50; cf. the same account in Macr. S. 2, 2.

Trop.

In gen., to bring down, bring or lead away, withdraw, bring, lead: quare, si placet, deduc orationem tuam de coelo ad haec citeriora, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 85, 20, and 289, 9:

licet enim contrahere universitatem generis humani, eamque gradatim ad pauciores, postremo deducere in singulos,

id. N. D. 2, 65 fin.:

aliquem de animi lenitate,

id. Cat. 2, 13; cf.:

aliquem de animi pravitate,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 10 fin.:

aliquem de sententia,

Cic. Brut. 25 fin.:

aliquem de fide,

id. Verr. 1, 9, 25 et saep.:

perterritos a timore,

id. N. D. 2, 59, 148:

aliquem a tristitia, ab acerbitate,

id. de Or. 2, 83 fin.:

aliquem ab humanitate, a pietate, a religione,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 6 (for which, shortly before, abducere):

aliquem a vera accusatione,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6 fin.; id. Fam. 1, 1, 2 et saep.:

voluntates impellere quo velit, unde autem velit deducere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30:

mos unde deductus,

derived, Hor. Od. 4, 4, 19; cf.:

nomen ab Anco,

Ov. F. 6, 803:

quae tandem ea est disciplina, ad quam me deducas,

Cic. Acad. 2, 36:

aliquem ad fletum misericordiamque,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 189:

aliquem ad eam sententiam,

Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 5; 6, 10, 2:

rem ad arma,

id. B. C. 1, 4 fin.; cf.:

rem ad otium,

id. ib. 1, 5 fin.:

plura argumenta ad unum effectum,

Quint. 9, 2, 103 et saep.:

quam in fortunam quamque in amplitudinem deduxisset (Aeduos),

Caes. B. G. 7, 54, 3; so,

aliquem in eum casum,

id. ib. 2, 31, 6:

aliquem in periculum,

id. ib. 7, 50, 4: Quint. 4, 2, 12; cf.:

rem in summum periculum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31; id. B. C. 1, 19, 3:

rem in controversiam,

id. B. G. 7, 63, 5:

aliquem in causam,

Liv. 36, 5:

in societatem belli,

id. 36, 7 et saep.:

huc jam deduxerat rem, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 62; so,

rem huc, ut, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 86, 3:

deduxisti totam hanc rem in duo genera solum causarum, caetera innumerabilia exercitationi reliquisti,

have brought, reduced, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 71; id. Cat. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

rem in eum locum, ut, etc.,

id. Fam. 16, 12:

quem in locum,

id. ib. 4, 2, 3:

ergo huc universa causa deducitur, utrum, etc.,

id. Rosc. Com. 12, 34:

rerum divisio in duos articulos deducitur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 2:

audi, quo rem deducam,

what I aim at, what I have in view, to what conclusion I will bring the matter, Hor. S. 1, 1, 15:

Aeolium carmen ad Italos modos,

transfer, transplant, id. Od. 3, 30, 14; cf.:

in patriam deducere musas,

Verg. G. 3, 10. —

In partic.

To mislead, seduce, entice, induce, bring one to an opinion (rare):

adolescentibus et oratione magistratus et praemio deductis,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 6; id. B. C. 1, 7, 1:

sibi esse facile, Seuthen regem Thracum deducere, ut, etc.,

Nep. Alcib. 8:

aliquem vero,

from the truth, Lucr. 1, 370.—

To spin out a literary composition, like a thread, i. e. to elaborate, prepare, compose ( poet., and in post-Aug. prose):

tenui deducta poëmata filo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 225:

mille die versus,

id. Sat. 2, 1, 4; Ov. Pont. 1, 5, 13:

carmina,

id. Tr. 1, 1, 39; cf. id. ib. 5, 1, 71: nihil expositum, Juv. 7, 54:

commentarios,

Quint. 3, 6, 59:

oratio deducta atque circumlata,

finely spun out, id. 4, 1, 60 al.:

primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen,

Ov. M. 1, 3; cf. id. Tr. 2, 560; Hor. A. P. 129:

opus,

Manil. 1, 3. —

(Another figure borrowed from spinning.) To make finer, thinner, weaker; to attenuate: vocem deducas oportet, ut mulieris videantur verba, Pompon. ap. Macr. Sat. 6, 4: "Odusseus" ad "Ulixem" deductus est, Quint. 1, 4, 16; cf. P. a. B.—

To derive (of the origin of words):

nomen Christianorum a Christo deducitur,

Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 14;

id. de Virg. vel. 5: diximus nomen religionis a vinculo pietatis esse deductum,

Lact. 4, 28, 12; cf.:

sed et Pharnacion (cognominatur) a Pharnace rege deductum,

Plin. 25, 4, 14, § 33.—

To remove, cure, of physical evils:

brassica de capite omnia deducet et sanum faciet,

Cato R. R. 157, 6:

corpore febres, animo curas,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 48; Cic. Fin. 5, 17, 47.—

To bring down (late Lat.):

deducis ad inferos,

i. e. to death, Vulg. Tobiae, 13, 2; id. Gen. 42, 38; id. 1 Reg. 2, 6.—

Law t. t., to withhold:

cum in mancipanda proprietate (usus fructus) deducatur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 33.—Hence,

prae-cīdo (old form praecaedit, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 18), cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut off in front; hence, in gen., to cut off.

Lit. (class.); constr. with acc. alone, or with acc. and dat. or gen. of person.

With acc. and dat.:

linguam alicui,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 12:

manum alicui gladio,

Cic. Inv. 2, 20, 59:

aures, nasum et labia alicui,

Just. 1, 10, 5.—

With acc. and gen.:

collegae sui praecidi caput jussit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55:

quae patrem occiderit, manus ejus praecidantur,

Sen. Contr. 9, 27, 8.—

With acc.:

manus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 44:

caput, Quadrig. ap. Gell. l. l.: capita,

Petr. 1:

medici membra praecidunt,

Quint. 8, 3, 75:

capillos,

id. ib. 8, 3, 105:

ancoras,

to cut the cables, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:

fistulas, quibus aqua suppeditatur,

id. Rab. Perd. 11, 31:

traducem,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 211.—

Transf.

To cut through, cut up (class.):

cotem novaculā,

Cic. Div. 1, 17, 32:

linguam Nicanoris praecisam jussit particulatim avibus dari,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 15, 33:

naves,

to cripple, make unfit for service, Cic. Att. 9, 6, 3.—

To beat to pieces, to batter, smash (ante-class.):

praecide os tu illi,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 52 (dub.; cf. id. Pers. 2, 4, 12 Ritschl).—

Praecidere sinum maris, to cut off, avoid, i. e. to sail straight (postAug.), Sen. Ep. 53, 1: medium mare, Auct. Quint. Decl. 12, 22; cf.

iter,

Plin. 8, 22, 34, [p. 1413] § 83.—

Trop., to cut off, to take away.

Of speech, to cut short, abridge; to cut short one's words, to be brief, break off or finish abruptly:

dum te obtuetur, interim linguam oculi praeciderunt,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 56:

maximam partem defensionis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 62, § 151:

sibi licentiam libertatemque vivendi,

id. ib. 2, 3, 1, §

3: sibi reditum,

id. Pis. 22, 51:

per abscissionem significatio fit, si, cum incipimus aliquid dicere, praecidimus,

Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67:

brevi praecidam,

in a word, in short, briefly, Cic. Sen. 16, 57:

praecide, inquit,

cut it short, be brief, id. Ac. 2, 43, 133.—

To break off, cut off, end, destroy; esp. with spem:

si non praeciditur spes plebeio quoque, apiscendi summi honoris,

Liv. 4, 3, 7:

praecisa consulatūs spes erit,

id. 4, 3, 15; 24, 31, 12; 42, 50, 1:

id sum assecutus, ut una hora perdito spem judicii corrumpendi praeciderem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 20:

utrum spem nostram praecidat an differat,

Sen. Ira, 3, 28, 4; id. Ben. 2, 5, 1.—Also of friendship, etc.: amicitias repente praecidere, to break off suddenly (opp. sensim dissuere), Cic. Off. 1, 33, 120.—

To deny flatly, refuse, decline, etc.:

plane sine ullā exceptione praecidit,

flatly refused, Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

cupiebam eum esse nobiscum: quod quia praeciderat,

id. ib. 10, 16, 1.—Hence, praecīsus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., cut or torn off, separated ( poet.):

Trinacria Italiā praecisa,

Manil. 4, 630.— Subst.: praecī-sum, i, n., a piece of meat cut off, a cutlet, steak (ante-class.), Naev. ap. Non. 151, 2: praeciso capi, Lucil. ib.—

Transf.

Castrated (post-class.):

fanatici,

Lampr. Elag. 7:

praecisi ac professi impudientiam,

Sen. Prov. 5, 3.—

Broken off, steep, abrupt, precipitous ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

acuta silex praecisis undique saxis,

Verg. A. 8, 233:

iter,

Sall. J. 92, 7:

rupes,

Quint. 12, 9, 2.—

Trop.

Shortened, short, brief (post-Aug.):

praecisis conclusionibus obscuri,

Quint. 10, 2, 17:

comprehensio,

id. 7, 3, 15.—

Troublesome (postclass.):

ut sub obtentu militiae praecisiorem se adversario faceret (al. pretiosiorem),

Dig. 49, 16, 4.—Hence, adv.: prae-cīsē.

In short, in few words, briefly, concisely (class.):

praecise dicere (opp. plene et perfecte dicere),

Cic. N. D. 2, 29, 73.—

Positively, absolutely (class.):

praecise negare alicui,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

non praecise, sed sub condicione,

Dig. 36, 3, 1.

prae-cīdo (old form praecaedit, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 18), cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut off in front; hence, in gen., to cut off.

Lit. (class.); constr. with acc. alone, or with acc. and dat. or gen. of person.

With acc. and dat.:

linguam alicui,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 12:

manum alicui gladio,

Cic. Inv. 2, 20, 59:

aures, nasum et labia alicui,

Just. 1, 10, 5.—

With acc. and gen.:

collegae sui praecidi caput jussit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55:

quae patrem occiderit, manus ejus praecidantur,

Sen. Contr. 9, 27, 8.—

With acc.:

manus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 44:

caput, Quadrig. ap. Gell. l. l.: capita,

Petr. 1:

medici membra praecidunt,

Quint. 8, 3, 75:

capillos,

id. ib. 8, 3, 105:

ancoras,

to cut the cables, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:

fistulas, quibus aqua suppeditatur,

id. Rab. Perd. 11, 31:

traducem,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 211.—

Transf.

To cut through, cut up (class.):

cotem novaculā,

Cic. Div. 1, 17, 32:

linguam Nicanoris praecisam jussit particulatim avibus dari,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 15, 33:

naves,

to cripple, make unfit for service, Cic. Att. 9, 6, 3.—

To beat to pieces, to batter, smash (ante-class.):

praecide os tu illi,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 52 (dub.; cf. id. Pers. 2, 4, 12 Ritschl).—

Praecidere sinum maris, to cut off, avoid, i. e. to sail straight (postAug.), Sen. Ep. 53, 1: medium mare, Auct. Quint. Decl. 12, 22; cf.

iter,

Plin. 8, 22, 34, [p. 1413] § 83.—

Trop., to cut off, to take away.

Of speech, to cut short, abridge; to cut short one's words, to be brief, break off or finish abruptly:

dum te obtuetur, interim linguam oculi praeciderunt,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 56:

maximam partem defensionis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 62, § 151:

sibi licentiam libertatemque vivendi,

id. ib. 2, 3, 1, §

3: sibi reditum,

id. Pis. 22, 51:

per abscissionem significatio fit, si, cum incipimus aliquid dicere, praecidimus,

Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67:

brevi praecidam,

in a word, in short, briefly, Cic. Sen. 16, 57:

praecide, inquit,

cut it short, be brief, id. Ac. 2, 43, 133.—

To break off, cut off, end, destroy; esp. with spem:

si non praeciditur spes plebeio quoque, apiscendi summi honoris,

Liv. 4, 3, 7:

praecisa consulatūs spes erit,

id. 4, 3, 15; 24, 31, 12; 42, 50, 1:

id sum assecutus, ut una hora perdito spem judicii corrumpendi praeciderem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 20:

utrum spem nostram praecidat an differat,

Sen. Ira, 3, 28, 4; id. Ben. 2, 5, 1.—Also of friendship, etc.: amicitias repente praecidere, to break off suddenly (opp. sensim dissuere), Cic. Off. 1, 33, 120.—

To deny flatly, refuse, decline, etc.:

plane sine ullā exceptione praecidit,

flatly refused, Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

cupiebam eum esse nobiscum: quod quia praeciderat,

id. ib. 10, 16, 1.—Hence, praecīsus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., cut or torn off, separated ( poet.):

Trinacria Italiā praecisa,

Manil. 4, 630.— Subst.: praecī-sum, i, n., a piece of meat cut off, a cutlet, steak (ante-class.), Naev. ap. Non. 151, 2: praeciso capi, Lucil. ib.—

Transf.

Castrated (post-class.):

fanatici,

Lampr. Elag. 7:

praecisi ac professi impudientiam,

Sen. Prov. 5, 3.—

Broken off, steep, abrupt, precipitous ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

acuta silex praecisis undique saxis,

Verg. A. 8, 233:

iter,

Sall. J. 92, 7:

rupes,

Quint. 12, 9, 2.—

Trop.

Shortened, short, brief (post-Aug.):

praecisis conclusionibus obscuri,

Quint. 10, 2, 17:

comprehensio,

id. 7, 3, 15.—

Troublesome (postclass.):

ut sub obtentu militiae praecisiorem se adversario faceret (al. pretiosiorem),

Dig. 49, 16, 4.—Hence, adv.: prae-cīsē.

In short, in few words, briefly, concisely (class.):

praecise dicere (opp. plene et perfecte dicere),

Cic. N. D. 2, 29, 73.—

Positively, absolutely (class.):

praecise negare alicui,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

non praecise, sed sub condicione,

Dig. 36, 3, 1.

prae-vārĭcor, ātus, 1, v. dep., to walk crookedly, not to walk straight. *

Lit.:

arator praevaricatur,

makes a crooked furrow, Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179.—

Trop.

To walk crookedly in the discharge of one's duty, not to act uprightly; esp. of an advocate who is guilty of collusion with the opposite party, to make a sham accusation or defence, to collude, prevaricate:

qui praevaricatur, ex utrāque parte consistit, quinimo ex alterā,

Dig. 47, 15, 1; cf. Plin. l. c. supra: a Catilina pecuniam accepit, ut turpissime praevaricaretur, Auct. Har. Resp. 20; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 29.—With dat., to favor collusively:

interdum non defendere, sed praevaricari accusationi videbatur,

Cic. Clu. 21, 58.—

Late Lat., to transgress, sin against, violate:

pactum meum,

Vulg. Jos. 7, 11:

contra me,

id. Deut. 32, 51: legem, id. Osee, 8, 1.—Also in the form praevā-rĭco, āre:

quod audivit, praevaricavit,

Aug. Tract. in Joann. 99; cf. Prisc. 8, 6, 29.

prae-vārĭcor, ātus, 1, v. dep., to walk crookedly, not to walk straight. *

Lit.:

arator praevaricatur,

makes a crooked furrow, Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179.—

Trop.

To walk crookedly in the discharge of one's duty, not to act uprightly; esp. of an advocate who is guilty of collusion with the opposite party, to make a sham accusation or defence, to collude, prevaricate:

qui praevaricatur, ex utrāque parte consistit, quinimo ex alterā,

Dig. 47, 15, 1; cf. Plin. l. c. supra: a Catilina pecuniam accepit, ut turpissime praevaricaretur, Auct. Har. Resp. 20; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 29.—With dat., to favor collusively:

interdum non defendere, sed praevaricari accusationi videbatur,

Cic. Clu. 21, 58.—

Late Lat., to transgress, sin against, violate:

pactum meum,

Vulg. Jos. 7, 11:

contra me,

id. Deut. 32, 51: legem, id. Osee, 8, 1.—Also in the form praevā-rĭco, āre:

quod audivit, praevaricavit,

Aug. Tract. in Joann. 99; cf. Prisc. 8, 6, 29.