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cĭter, tra, trum ( comp. citerior; sup. citimus; most freq. in comp.; in posit. only Cato ap. Prisc. pp. 589 and 999 P.; and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 607 ib.), adj. [cis].

On this side:

citer agnus (ager) alligatus ad sacra erit, Cato ap. Prisc. pp. 599 and 989 P.: alter ulteriorem Galliam decernit cum Syriā, alter citeriorem,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 15, 36:

citerior provincia (i. e. Gallia Cisalpina),

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

in Galliā citeriore,

id. ib. 1, 24; Hirt. B. G. 8, 23; Suet. Caes. 56:

citerior Hispania,

Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2; Cic. Att. 12, 37, 4; Nep. Cat. 2, 1; Plin. 3, 1, 2, § 6:

Arabia,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 213:

Oceanus,

Flor. 4, 12, 46:

ripa,

Vell. 2, 107, 1.—

As that which is on this side is nearer to us than its opposite, lying near, near, close to.

In space:

(stella) ultima a caelo, citima terris,

Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; id. Univ. 7 fin.:

citima Persidis (sc. loca),

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 213. —

Trop.:

deduc orationem tuam de caelo ad haec citeriora,

Cic. Rep. 1, 21, 34:

quantā animi tranquillitate humana et citeriora considerat,

id. Tusc. 5, 25, 71:

ut ad haec citeriora veniam et notiora nobis,

id. Leg. 3, 2, 4:

nam citeriora nondum audiebamus,

id. Fam. 2, 12, 1; Val. Max. 3, 8, 1; 9, 12, 6:

citerioris vitae minister,

private, domestic, Amm. 14, 1, 7.—

In time (post-Aug.), earlier, sooner:

Africano consulatus citerior legitimo tempore datus est,

Val. Max. 8, 15, 1; 6, 3, 11:

in antiquius citeriusve,

Vell. 1, 17, 2:

citeriore die (opp. longiore),

Dig. 23, 4, 15.—

In measure or degree, small, little:

citerior tamen est poena quam scelus,

Quint. Decl. 299; Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 10.— Advv.: comp. cĭtĕrĭus, less:

citerius debito resistere,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 11; sup. cĭtĭmē, least, acc. to Prisc. p. 1016 P.—

Hence,

cī̆trā, adv. and prep. with acc., on this side, on the hither or nearer side (opp. to ultra; more freq. than cis, q. v.).

Prop.

Adv.:

(dextera) nec citra mota nec ultra,

neither this way nor that, Ov. M. 5, 186; cf.:

ultra citraque pervolare,

Plin. 10, 23, 31, § 61:

citra est Oglasa,

id. 3, 6, 12, § 80; 6, 11, 12, § 30:

citra fuere margines,

id. 2, 17, 14, § 73.—

With acc.:

Germani qui essent citra Rhenum,

Caes. B. G. 6, 32:

is locus est citra Leucadem stadia CXX.,

Cic. Fam. 16, 2; so,

citra Veliam,

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

citra mare,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 47:

mare citra,

id. ib. 1, 10, 31:

citra flumen intercepti,

Liv. 21, 48, 6:

citra Tauri juga,

id. 38, 48, 1 al. —

With verbs of motion: ut exercitum citra flumen Rubiconem educeret,

Cic. Phil. 6, 3, 5:

ut omnes citra flumen eliceret,

Caes. B. G. 6, 8; Liv. 21, 54, 4; Hor. S. 1, 1, 106.—

(Acc. to citer, II.) Of that which takes [p. 345] place, or is within a fixed boundary, and yet does not reach that boundary, within, beneath, short of, less than.

Adv.:

non erit necesse id usque a capite arcessere: saepe etiam citra licet,

not so far, Cic. Top. 9, 39:

paucis citra milibus lignatores ei occurrunt,

Liv. 10, 25, 4:

citra quam proxime fuerint (defectus lunae),

Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 86:

citra exsultare,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 180: tela citra cadebant (i. e. did not reach the Romans), Tac. H. 3, 23.—

With acc.:

nec a postremā syllabā citra tertiam,

before the third syllable, Cic. Or. 18, 58 (cf. Quint. 1, 5, 30: acuta intra numerum trium syllabarum continetur); id. 8, 6, 76:

cur Veneris stella numquam longius XLVI. portibus ab sole... abscedant, saepe citra eas ad solem reciprocent,

Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72; 2, 17, 15, § 77.—

Trop.

Adv. of measure:

neve domi praesume dapes et desine citra Quam capias paulo,

Ov. A. A. 3, 757; cf.:

culta citra quam debuit illa,

id. P. 1, 7, 55.—

With acc.: pronepos ego regis aquarum;

Nec virtus citra genus est,

is not behind my family, Ov. M. 10, 607:

glans cum citra satietatem data est,

not to satiety, Col. 7, 6, 5; cf. id. 9, 13, 2; so,

fatigationem,

Cels. 1, 2; cf. Plin. 19, 8, 54, § 171:

scelus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 23:

citra necem tua constitit ira,

id. ib. 2, 127:

usus citra intellectum acrimoniae,

Plin. 19, 8, 54, § 171. —

In time (with acc. rare;

perh. not anteAug.): citra Kalendas Octobris,

Col. 2, 8, 3; cf. Gell. 12, 13:

Trojana tempora,

Ov. M. 8, 365:

juventam,

id. ib. 10, 84:

temporis finem,

Dig. 49, 16, 15.—

Since the Aug. per. (most freq. in Quint. and Pliny the elder; in the former more than twenty times), in gen. of that which does not belong to, is without, or beyond something, without, aside from, apart from, except, without regard to, setting aside (for the class. sine, praeter; hence the Gloss.: aneu sine, absque, praeter, citra, Gloss. Cyr.; citra dicha, chôris, ektos, Gloss. Phil.); with acc.:

citra hoc experimentum multa sunt, quae, etc.,

Col. 2, 2, 20:

plus usus sine doctrinā, quam citra usum doctrina valet,

Quint. 12, 6, 4:

Phidias in ebore longe citra aemulum,

id. 12, 10, 9:

vir bonus citra virtutem intellegi non potest,

id. 12, 2, 1; so,

accusationem,

id. 7, 2, 26; 3, 8, 21; 7, 10, 3:

tranare aquas citra docentem natura ipsa sciunt,

id. 2, 16, 13:

citra invidiam,

Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 108:

citra ullum aliud incommodum,

id. 2, 51, 52, § 137:

citra dolorem,

id. 12, 17, 40, § 79; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4:

morsum,

Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 136:

vulnus,

id. 20, 21, 84, § 225 al.:

citra fidem,

Tac. Agr. 1:

citra speciem aut delectationem,

id. G. 16:

citra Senatūs populique auctoritatem,

Suet. Caes. 28:

commoda emeritorum,

id. Aug. 24:

spem omnium fortuna cessit,

Flor. 3, 1, 2:

etiam citra spectaculorum dies,

i.e. even out of the time of the established spectacles, Suet. Aug. 43:

citra magnitudinem prope Ponto similis,

excepting its size, Mel. 1, 19, 17; Tac. Agr. 10; Quint. 2, 4, 22; so id. 7, 2, 13; Dig. 3, 6, 9: lana tincta fuco citra purpuras placet, Ov. Fragm. ap. Quint. 12, 10, 75.—Citra sometimes follows its case, Hor. S. 1, 1, 107; 1, 10, 31.—

cī̆trō, adv. (orig. dat. sing.), always in the connection and position ultro citroque, ultro et citro, ultro ac citro, or without copula ultro citro (not ultroque citroque), hither and thither, this way and that, here and there, to and fro, from both sides, backwards and forwards, reciprocally; Fr. par ci par là, ça et là (in good prose):

ultro ac citro commeare,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 16:

sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 84: ultro citroque commeare, Auct. B. Afr. 20; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104; * Suet. Calig. 19; Lucr. 4, 32:

qui ultro citroque navigarent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170:

cursare ultro et citro,

id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60 (in Prisc. p. 1011 P., perh. only from memory written ultro citroque):

bis ultro citroque transcurrerunt,

Liv. 40, 40, 7 al.:

cum saepe ultro citroque legati inter eos mitterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 42; id. B. C. 1, 20; Liv. 5, 8, 6:

multis verbis ultro citroque habitis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9; cf. Liv. 9, 45, 2; 7, 9, 2:

beneficiis ultro citro datis acceptisque,

Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

ut obsides ultro citroque darentur,

Liv. 44, 23, 2:

datā ultro citroque fide,

id. 29, 23, 5:

inplicati ultro et citro vel usu diuturno vel etiam officiis,

Cic. Lael. 22, 85 Klotz N. cr.: alternatis ultro citro aestibus, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 29:

ultro citroque versus,

Amm. 30, 3, 5.

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,