pulling+up

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a dragging, drawing, pulling / territory, tract.

course, progress, movement / space, time, lapse / extension, length.

ad-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (adduce for adduc, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 15; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 29; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32:

adduxti for adduxisti,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 15; id. Eun. 4, 7, 24:

adduxe = adduxisse,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 3), to lead to, to bring or convey to, draw to any place or to one's self (opp. abduco, q. v.; syn.: adfero, apporto, adveho, induco).

Lit.:

quaeso, quī possim animum bonum habere, qui te ad me adducam domum,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 78:

ille alter venit, quem secum adduxit Parmenio,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 27; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32: quos secum Mitylenis Cratippus adduxit, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 5:

Demetrius Epimachum secum adduxit,

Vitr. 10, 22, 262.—With ad:

ad lenam,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 65; cf. id. Mil. 3, 1, 193: ad cenam, Lucil. ap. Non. 159, 25 (cf.:

abduxi ad cenam,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2 [p. 32] 9):

adduxit ea ad Adam,

Vulg. Gen. 2, 19; ib. Marc. 14, 53.—Or with a local adv.:

tu istos adduce intro,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 54:

quia te adducturam huc dixeras eumpse non eampse,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 31; so Ter. And. 5, 3, 29:

adduc huc filium tuum,

Vulg. Luc. 9, 41. —

In gen., without regard to the access. idea of accompanying, to lead or bring a person or thing to a place, to take or conduct from one place to another (of living beings which have the power of motion, while affero is properly used of things: attuli hunc. Pseud. Quid? attulisti? Ca. Adduxi volui dicere, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 21).—So of conducting an army:

exercitum,

Cic. Att. 7, 9:

aquam,

to lead to, id. Cael. 14.—With in:

gentes feras in Italiam,

Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2; cf. Oud. ad Caes. B. G. 4, 22, and Auct. B. G. 8, 35:

in judicium adductus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 10, 28:

adducta res in judicium est,

id. Off. 3, 16, 67; so id. Clu. 17.—With dat.:

puero nutricem adducit,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 4:

qui ex Gallia pueros venales isti adducebat,

Cic. Quint. 6.— Poet. with acc.:

Diae telluris ad oras applicor et dextris adducor litora remis,

Ov. M. 3, 598 (cf. advertor oras Scythicas, id. ib. 5, 649, and Rudd. II. p. 327):

adducere ad populum, i. e. in judicium populi vocare,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6.—Of a courtesan, to procure:

puero scorta,

Nep. Dion, 5:

paelicem,

Ov. Fast. 3, 483.— Poet. also of a place, which is, as it were, brought near. Thus Hor. in describing the attractions of his Sabine farm: dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum, Ep. 1, 16, 11.—

Esp.

To bring a thing to a destined place by drawing or pulling, to draw or pull to one's self:

tormenta eo graviores emissiones habent, quo sunt contenta atque adducta vehementius,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24:

adducto arcu,

Verg. A. 5, 507; so,

adducta sagitta,

id. ib. 9, 632:

utque volat moles, adducto concita nervo,

Ov. M. 8, 357:

adducta funibus arbor corruit,

id. ib. 775:

funem,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14: so Luc. 3, 700:

colla parvis lacertis,

Ov. M. 6, 625:

equos,

id. Fast. 6, 586.—Hence trop.:

habenas amicitiae,

to tighten, Cic. Lael. 13, 45; cf. Verg. A. 9, 632, and 1, 63.—

Of the skin or a part of the body, to draw up, wrinkle, contract:

adducit cutem macies,

wrinkles the skin, Ov. M. 3, 397:

sitis miseros adduxerat artus,

Verg. G. 3, 483; so, frontem (opp. remittere), to contract:

interrogavit, quae causa frontis tam adductae?

a brow so clouded? Quint. 10, 3, 13; so Sen. Benef. 1, 1.

Fig.

To bring a person or thing into a certain condition; with ad or in:

numquam animum quaesti gratiā ad malas adducam partīs,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 38:

rem adduci ad interregnum,

Cic. Att. 7, 9:

ad arbitrium alterius,

id. Fam. 5, 20:

ad suam auctoritatem,

id. Deiot. 10, 29:

numquam prius discessit, quam ad finem sermo esset adductus,

Nep. Ep. 3:

iambos ad umbilicum adducere,

Hor. Epod. 14, 8:

in discrimen extremum,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7; cf. Liv. 45, 8:

in summas angustias,

Cic. Quint. 5:

in invidiam falso crimine,

id. Off. 3, 20:

in necessitatem,

Liv. 8, 7:

vitam in extremum,

Tac. A. 14, 61.—

To bring or lead one to a certain act, feeling, or opinion; to prompt, induce, prevail upon, persuade, move, incite to it; with ad, in, or ut (very freq. and class., and for the most part in a good sense; while seducere and inducere denote instigating or seducing to something bad, Herz. Caes. B. G. 1, 3;

although there are exceptions, as the foll. examples show): ad misericordiam,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 42:

ad nequitiem,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 4:

ad iracundiam, ad fletum,

Cic. Brut. 93, 322:

quae causa ad facinus adduxit,

id. Rosc. Am. 31:

in metum,

id. Mur. 24:

in summam exspectationem,

id. Tusc. 1, 17:

in spem,

id. Att. 2, 22:

in opinionem,

id. Fam. 1, 1:

in suspicionem alicui,

Nep. Hann. 7:

ad paenitentiam,

Vulg. Rom. 2, 4; ib. 10, 19.—With gerund:

ad suspicandum,

Cic. Pr. Cons. 16:

ad credendum,

Nep. Con. 3.—With ut:

adductus sum officio, fide, misericordia, etc., ut onus hoc laboris mihi suscipiendum putarem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 2:

nullo imbre, nullo frigore adduci, ut capite operto sit,

id. de Sen. 10: id. Cat. 1, 2; id. Fam. 3, 9; 6, 10, etc.; Caes. B. G. 6, 12; Liv. 4, 49 al.—And absol. in pass.:

quibus rebus adductus ad causam accesserim demonstravi,

Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

his rebus adducti,

being induced, Caes. B. G. 1, 3; 6, 10.—With quin:

adduci nequeo quin existimem,

Suet. Tib. 21.—With inf.: facilius adducor ferre humana humanitus, Afr. ap. Non. 514, 20.—

Adducor with inf., or with ut and subj. = adducor ad credendum, peithomai, to be induced to believe:

ego non adducor, quemquam bonum ullam salutem putare mihi tanti fuisse,

Cic. Att. 11, 16:

ut jam videar adduci, hanc quoque, quae te procrearit, esse patriam,

id. Leg. 2, 3:

illud adduci vix possum, ut... videantur,

id. Fin. 1, 5, 14; id. ib. 4, 20, 55; Lucr. 5, 1341.—Hence, adductus, a, um, P. a.

Drawn tight, stretched, strained, contracted. — Trop.:

vultus,

Suet. Tib. 68:

frons in supercilia adductior,

Capitol. Ver. 10; cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 16.—Hence,

Of place, narrow, contracted, strait:

(Africa) ex spatio paulatim adductior,

Mel. 1, 4.—

Of character, strict, serious, severe:

modo familiaritate juvenili Nero et rursus adductus, quasi seria consociaret,

Tac. A. 14, 4:

adductum et quasi virile servitium,

id. ib. 12, 7:

vis pressior et adductior,

Plin. Ep. 1, 16.— Sup. not used.— Adv. only in comp. adductĭus,

More tightly:

adductius contorquere jacula,

Aus. Grat. Act. 27.—

Trop., more strictly:

imperitare,

Tac. H. 3, 7:

regnari,

id. Germ. 43.

ā-vello, velli or vulsi, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a. ( pluperf. avellerat, Curt. 5, 6, 5; perf. avulsi, Luc. 9, 764), to tear off or away, to pull or rend off (syn.: abripio, eximo).

In gen. (class.):

avellere tigna trabesque,

to tear away planks and beams, Lucr. 6, 241:

avolsaque saxa Montibus,

the rocks rent from the mountains, id. 4, 141:

avolsum umeris caput,

Verg. A. 2, 558; so Ov. M. 3, 727; 2, 358:

avolsos silices a montibus altis,

Lucr. 5, 313:

avolsus radicibus oculus,

id. 3, 563: poma ex arboribus, si cruda sunt, vix avelluntur;

si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71; id. Verr. 2, 4, 49 fin.:

Cum ripa simul avolsos ferat Aufidus acer,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 58; 2, 8, 89:

Avellit frondes,

Ov. M. 2, 351:

summitatem frondium ejus avulsit,

Vulg. Ezech. 17, 4 al.:

Ex eā avolsa postea Therasia,

Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 70:

Euboea avolsa Boeotiae,

id. 4, 12, 21, § 63.—

Esp.

To take away by force, to tear away:

rus ab aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 14:

pretium alicui,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 104:

fatale sacrato avellere templo Palladium,

Verg. A. 2, 165:

fundum emptori,

Dig. 23, 7, 17; 40, 7, 3:

avellamus eum ad nos,

Vulg. Isa. 7, 6;

so of carrying off the bride,

Cat. 62, 21 Ellis.—

To separate from something by pulling, to part, to remove:

aliquem de matris complexu avellere atque abstrahere,

Cic. Font. 17:

ab uberibus avellere,

to wean, Vulg. Isa. 28, 9:

ut sperem posse (eum) avelli,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 21:

Non potes avelli! simul, ah, simul ibimus, inquit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 81:

complexu avolsus Iuli,

Verg. A. 4, 616:

ut avellerentur castris,

Tac. A. 1, 44: se, to tear one ' s self away, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 39.— And in pass. without the notion of violence, to withdraw:

Et ipse avulsus est ab eis,

Vulg. Luc. 22, 41 Tisch.— Trop.:

aliquem a tanto errore,

Cic. Off. 3, 4, 83.

dēpŏsĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [depono] (post-Aug.; most freq. in jurid. Lat.).

Lit., a laying down, putting off.

A depositing for safe-keeping, Dig. 16, 3, 1; 5; 17.—

A pulling or tearing down:

aedificii,

Dig. 4, 2, 9, § 2.—

A depositing in the earth, burying, Inscr. Orell. 1121 (of 384 A.D.).—

A parting from, getting rid of:

carnis sordium,

Vulg. 1 Pet. 3, 21; cf.:

tabernaculi mei,

i. e. the body, id. 2 Pet. 1, 14.—

Trop.

In gen.: testium, a deposition, testimony, Cod. 2, 43, 3: dignitatis, a lowering, degradation, Dig. 48, 19, 8 init. —

In rhetor.

The close of a period:

prout aut depositio aut inceptio aut transitus postulabit,

Quint. 11, 3, 46 Spald.—

The lowering of voice, sound, or speed of utterance, = Gr. thesis (opp. arsis = elatio), Mart. Cap. 9, § 974.