synonyms

cognōmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.].

To furnish with a surname, to surname, denominate (mostly post-Aug.;

only once in Cic.): amaracum Phrygium,

Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 67; 21, 3, 7, § 10; * Quint. 4, 1, 2; Suet. Tib. 17.—In part. pass.: quo ex facto ipse posterique ejus Torquati sunt cognominati, Quadr. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 19; Suet. Aug. 7; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 112; 33, 10, 17, § 133; Flor. 3, 5, 1: verba cognominata, i. e. synonyms, * Cic. Part. Or. 15, 53.—

Rarely in gen., to name, call:

Macedonia... Emathia cognominata est,

Just. 7, 1, 1; so id. 15, 2, 11; Gell. 2, 22, 8. [p. 362]

do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre (also in a longer form, dănunt = dant, Pac., Naev., and Caecil. ap. Non. 97, 14 sq.; Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 48; id. Ps. 3, 1, 1 et saep.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 12 Müll.— Subj.:

duim = dem,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 38:

duis,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 81; id. Men. 2, 1, 42:

duas = des,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 67; id. Rud. 5, 3, 12; an old formula in Liv. 10, 19:

duit,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 54; id. Aul. 1, 1, 23; an old formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

duint,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 126; id. Ps. 4, 1, 25; id. Trin. 2, 4, 35; Ter. And. 4, 1, 43; id. Phorm. 3, 2, 34 al.— Imper.: DVITOR, XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5 ex conject.—Inf.: DASI = dari, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 13 Müll.:

dane = dasne,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 22.—The pres. pass., first pers., dor, does not occur), v. a. [Sanscr. dā, da-dā-mi, give; Gr. di-dô-mi, dôtêr, dosis; cf.: dos, donum, damnum], to give; and hence, with the greatest variety of application, passing over into the senses of its compounds, derivatives, and synonyms (edere, tradere, dedere; reddere, donare, largiri, concedere, exhibere, porrigere, praestare, impertire, suppeditare, ministrare, subministrare, praebere, tribuere, offerre, etc.), as, to give away, grant, concede, allow, permit; give up, yield, resign; bestow, present, confer, furnish, afford; offer, etc. (very freq.).

In gen.:

eam carnem victoribus danunt, Naev. ap. Non. l. l.: ea dona, quae illic Amphitruoni sunt data,

Plaut. Am. prol. 138; cf.:

patera, quae dono mi illic data'st,

id. ib. 1, 3, 36:

dandis recipiendisque meritis,

Cic. Lael. 8; cf.:

ut par sit ratio acceptorum et datorum,

id. ib. 16, 58: ut obsides accipere non dare consuerint, Caes. B. G. 1, 4 fin.:

obsides,

id. ib. 1, 19, 1;

1, 31, 7 et saep.: patriam (sc. mundum) dii nobis communem secum dederunt,

Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

hominibus animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus,

id. ib. 6, 15; cf. ib. 6, 17:

ea dant magistratus magis, quae etiamsi nolint, danda sint,

id. ib. 1, 31; cf.

imperia,

id. ib. 1, 44:

centuria, ad summum usum urbis fabris tignariis data,

id. ib. 2, 22:

Lycurgus agros locupletium plebi, ut servitio, colendos dedit,

id. ib. 3, 9 fin.:

ei filiam suam in matrimonium dat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 5:

litteras ad te numquam habui cui darem, quin dederim,

Cic. Fam. 12, 19: litteras (ad aliquem), to write to one, saep.; cf. id. Att. 5, 11;

and in the same signif.: aliquid ad aliquem,

id. ib. 10, 8 fin.:

litteras alicui, said of the writer,

to give one a letter to deliver, id. ib. 5, 15 fin.;

of the bearer, rarely,

to deliver a letter to one, id. ib. 5, 4 init.: colloquium dare, to join in a conference, converse ( poet.), Lucr. 4, 598 (Lachm.;

al. videmus): colloquiumque sua fretus ab urbe dedit,

parley, challenge, Prop. 5, 10, 32:

dare poenas,

to give satisfaction, to suffer punishment, Sall. C. 18:

alicui poenas dare,

to make atonement to any one; to suffer for any thing, Ov. M. 6, 544; Sall. C. 51, 31;

v. poena: decus sibi datum esse justitia regis existimabant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 41:

quoniam me quodammodo invitas et tui spem das,

id. ib. 1, 10:

dabant hae feriae tibi opportunam sane facultatem ad explicandas tuas litteras,

id. ib. 1, 9; cf.:

ansas alicui ad reprehendendum,

id. Lael. 16, 59:

multas causas suspicionum offensionumque,

id. ib. 24:

facultatem per provinciam itineris faciundi,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7, 5;

for which: iter alicui per provinciam,

id. ib. 1, 8, 3; Liv. 8, 5; 21, 20 al.:

modicam libertatem populo,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

consilium,

id. Lael. 13:

praecepta,

id. ib. 4 fin.:

tempus alicui, ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 3:

inter se fidem et jusjurandum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3 fin.:

operam,

to bestow labor and pains on any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 55:

operam virtuti,

id. Lael. 22, 84;

also: operam, ne,

id. ib. 21, 78:

veniam amicitiae,

id. ib. 17:

vela (ventis),

to set sail, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187:

dextra vela dare,

to steer towards the right, Ov. 3, 640:

me librum L. Cossinio ad te perferendum dedisse,

Cic. Att. 2, 1:

sin homo amens diripiendam urbem daturus est,

id. Fam. 14, 14 et saep.: ita dat se res, so it is circumstanced, so it is, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 26; cf.:

prout tempus ac res se daret,

Liv. 28, 5 et saep.— Impers.: sic datur, so it goes, such is fate, i. e. you have your reward, Plaut. Truc. 4, 8, 4; id. Ps. 1, 2, 22; id. Men. 4, 2, 40; 64; id. Stich. 5, 6, 5.— Part. perf. sometimes (mostly in poets) subst.: dăta, ōrum, n., gifts, presents, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 72; Prop. 3, 15, 6 (4, 14, 6 M.); Ov. M. 6, 363 (but not in Cic. Clu. 24, 66, where dona data belong together, as in the archaic formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

DATVM DONVM DVIT, P. R. Q.).— Prov.: dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus,

Mart. 5, 81, 2; cf.:

dat census honores,

Ov. F. 1, 217.—

Poet. with inf.:

da mihi frui perpetuā virginitate,

allow me, Ov. M. 1, 486; id. ib. 8, 350:

di tibi dent captā classem reducere Trojā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 191; so id. ib. 1, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 16, 61; id. A. P. 323 et saep.—

With ne:

da, femina ne sim,

Ov. M. 12, 202.

In partic.

In milit. lang.

Nomina, to enroll one's self for military service, to enlist, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13; Liv. 2, 24; 5, 10; cf.

transf. beyond the military sphere,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 38.—

Manus (lit., as a prisoner of war, to stretch forth the hands to be fettered; cf. Cic. Lael. 26, 99;

hence),

to yield, surrender, Nep. Ham. 1, 4;

and more freq. transf. beyond the milit. sphere,

to yield, acquiesce, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; Cic. Lael. 26, 99; id. Att. 2, 22, 2; Caes. B. G. 5, 31, 3; Ov. H. 4, 14; id. F. 3, 688; Verg. A. 11, 568; Hor. Epod. 17, 1 al.—

Terga, for the usual vertere terga; v. tergum.—

To grant, consent, permit.

Esp. in jurid. lang.: DO, DICO, ADDICO, the words employed by the praetor in the execution of his office; viz. DO in the granting of judges, actions, exceptions, etc.; DICO in pronouncing sentence of judgment; ADDICO in adjudging the property in dispute to one or the other party; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 30 Müll.;

hence called tria verba,

Ov. F. 1, 47.—

Datur, it is permitted, allowed, granted; with subj. clause: quaesitis diu terris, ubi sistere detur, Ov. M. 1, 307:

interim tamen recedere sensim datur,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

ex quo intellegi datur, etc.,

Lact. 5, 20, 11.—

In philos. lang., to grant a proposition:

in geometria prima si dederis, danda sunt omnia: dato hoc, dandum erit illud (followed by concede, etc.),

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 25; id. Inv. 1, 31 fin. —

Designating the limit, to put, place, carry somewhere; and with se, to betake one's self somewhere:

tum genu ad terram dabo,

to throw, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17; cf.:

aliquem ad terram,

Liv. 31, 37; Flor. 4, 2 fin.:

me haec deambulatio ad languorem dedit!

has fatigued me, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

hanc mihi in manum dat,

id. And. 1, 5, 62:

praecipitem me in pistrinum dabit,

id. ib. 1, 3, 9:

hostes in fugam,

Caes. B. G. 5, 51 fin.:

hostem in conspectum,

to bring to view, Liv. 3, 69 fin.:

aliquem in vincula,

to cast into prison, Flor. 3, 10, 18; cf.:

arma in profluentes,

id. 4, 12, 9:

aliquem usque Sicanium fretum,

Val. Fl. 2, 28:

aliquem leto,

to put to death, to kill, Phaedr. 1, 22, 9:

se in viam,

to set out on a journey, Cic. Fam. 14, 12:

sese in fugam,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 43 fin.; cf.:

se fugae,

id. Att. 7, 23, 2:

Socrates, quam se cumque in partem dedisset, omnium fuit facile princeps,

id. de Or. 3, 16, 60 et saep.—

Designating the effect, to cause, make, bring about, inflict, impose:

qui dederit damnum aut malum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 116:

nec consulto alteri damnum dari sine dolo malo potest,

Cic. Tull. 14, 34; 16, 39; cf.:

malum dare,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 122:

hoc quī occultari facilius credas dabo,

Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 29:

inania duro vulnera dat ferro,

Ov. M. 3, 84:

morsus,

Prop. 5, 5, 39; cf.:

motus dare,

to impart motion, Lucr. 1, 819 al. (but motus dare, to make motion, to move, be moved, id. 2, 311):

stragem,

id. 1, 288:

equitum ruinas,

to overthrow, id. 5, 1329.—With part. fut. pass.:

pectora tristitiae dissolvenda dedit,

caused to be delivered from sadness, Tib. 1, 7, 40.—

Prov.: dant animos vina,

Ov. M. 12, 242. —

Aliquid alicui, to do any thing for the sake of another; to please or humor another; to give up, sacrifice any thing to another (for the more usual condonare): da hoc illi mortuae, da ceteris amicis ac familiaribus, da patriae, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5 fin.: aliquid auribus alicujus, Trebon. ib. 12, 16:

Caere hospitio Vestalium cultisque diis,

Liv. 7, 20:

plus stomacho quam consilio,

Quint. 10, 1, 117 et saep.:

ut concessisti illum senatui, sic da hunc populo,

i. e. forgive him, for the sake of the people, Cic. Lig. 12, 37:

dabat et famae, ut, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 7.—Hence,

Se alicui, to give one's self up wholly, to devote, dedicate one's self to a person or thing, to serve:

dedit se etiam regibus,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4; so Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 10; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 10; Poëta ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; Nep. Att. 9; Tac. A. 1, 31:

mihi si large volantis ungula se det equi,

Stat. Silv, 2, 2, 38; 1, 1, 42; 5, 3, 71 al.; Aus. Mosel. 5, 448; cf. Ov. H. 16, 161:

se et hominibus Pythagoreis et studiis illis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 111:

se sermonibus vulgi,

id. ib. 6, 23:

se jucunditati,

id. Off. 1, 34 al.:

se populo ac coronae,

to present one's self, appear, id. Verr. 2, 3, 19; cf.:

se convivio,

Suet. Caes. 31 et saep.:

si se dant (judices) et sua sponte quo impellimus inclinant,

Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 187.—

Of discourse, to announce, tell, relate, communicate (like accipere, for to learn, to hear, v. accipio, II.; mostly ante-class. and poet.):

erili filio hanc fabricam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 132:

quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 10; cf. Verg. E. 1, 19:

imo etiam dabo, quo magis credas,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 37:

da mihi nunc, satisne probas?

Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

Thessalici da bella ducis,

Val. Fl. 5, 219:

is datus erat locus colloquio,

appointed, Liv. 33, 13:

fixa canens... Saepe dedit sedem notas mutantibus urbes,

i. e. foretold, promised, Luc. 5, 107.—In pass., poet. i. q.: narratur, dicitur, fertur, etc., is said:

seu pius Aeneas eripuisse datur,

Ov. F. 6, 434; Stat. Th. 7, 315; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 337.—

Fabulam, to exhibit, produce a play (said of the author; cf.:

docere fabulam, agere fabulam),

Cic. Brut. 18 fin.; id. Tusc. 1, 1 fin.; Ter. Eun. prol. 9; 23; id. Heaut. prol. 33; id. Hec. prol. 1 Don.;

and transf.,

Cic. Clu. 31, 84; cf.

also: dare foras librum = edere,

Cic. Att. 13, 22, 3.—

Verba (alicui), to give [p. 605] empty words, i. e. to deceive, cheat, Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 25; id. Ps. 4, 5, 7; id. Rud. 2, 2, 19; Ter. And. 1, 3, 6 Ruhnk.; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 24; Cic. Phil. 13, 16 fin.; id. Att. 15, 16 A.; Hor. S. 1, 3, 22; Pers. 4, 45; Mart. 2, 76 et saep.—

Alicui aliquid (laudi, crimini, vitio, etc.), to impute, assign, ascribe, attribute a thing to any one, as a merit, a crime, a fault, etc.:

nunc quam rem vitio dent, quaeso animum attendite,

Ter. And. prol. 8:

hoc vitio datur,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 64:

inopiā criminum summam laudem Sex. Roscio vitio et culpae dedisse,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48; id. Off. 1, 21, 71; 2, 17, 58; id. Div. in Caecil. 10; id. Brut. 80, 277 et saep.—

Alicui cenam, epulas, etc., to give one a dinner, entertain at table (freq.):

qui cenam parasitis dabit,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 4, 1, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 45; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2; id. Mur. 36, 75:

prandium dare,

id. ib. 32, 67; cf. Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 1; Tac. A. 2, 57 al.—

To grant, allow, in gen. (rare, but freq. as impers.; v. B. 2. supra):

dari sibi diem postulabat,

a respite, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 32.

- do, -dāre ( obsol., found only in the compounds, abdo, condo, abscondo, indo, etc.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. root dhā-, da-dhāmi, set, put, place; Gr. the-, tithêmi; Ger. thun, thue, that; Eng. do, deed, etc.]. This root is distinct from 1. do, Sanscr. dā, in most of the Arian langg.; cf. Pott. Etym. Forsch. 2, 484; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 410;

but in Italy the two seem to have been confounded, at least in compounds,

Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 254 sq.; cf. Max Müller, Science of Lang. Ser. 2, p. 220, N. Y. ed.; Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 100.

do, acc. of domus, v. domus init.

do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre (also in a longer form, dănunt = dant, Pac., Naev., and Caecil. ap. Non. 97, 14 sq.; Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 48; id. Ps. 3, 1, 1 et saep.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 12 Müll.— Subj.:

duim = dem,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 38:

duis,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 81; id. Men. 2, 1, 42:

duas = des,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 67; id. Rud. 5, 3, 12; an old formula in Liv. 10, 19:

duit,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 54; id. Aul. 1, 1, 23; an old formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

duint,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 126; id. Ps. 4, 1, 25; id. Trin. 2, 4, 35; Ter. And. 4, 1, 43; id. Phorm. 3, 2, 34 al.— Imper.: DVITOR, XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5 ex conject.—Inf.: DASI = dari, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 13 Müll.:

dane = dasne,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 22.—The pres. pass., first pers., dor, does not occur), v. a. [Sanscr. dā, da-dā-mi, give; Gr. di-dô-mi, dôtêr, dosis; cf.: dos, donum, damnum], to give; and hence, with the greatest variety of application, passing over into the senses of its compounds, derivatives, and synonyms (edere, tradere, dedere; reddere, donare, largiri, concedere, exhibere, porrigere, praestare, impertire, suppeditare, ministrare, subministrare, praebere, tribuere, offerre, etc.), as, to give away, grant, concede, allow, permit; give up, yield, resign; bestow, present, confer, furnish, afford; offer, etc. (very freq.).

In gen.:

eam carnem victoribus danunt, Naev. ap. Non. l. l.: ea dona, quae illic Amphitruoni sunt data,

Plaut. Am. prol. 138; cf.:

patera, quae dono mi illic data'st,

id. ib. 1, 3, 36:

dandis recipiendisque meritis,

Cic. Lael. 8; cf.:

ut par sit ratio acceptorum et datorum,

id. ib. 16, 58: ut obsides accipere non dare consuerint, Caes. B. G. 1, 4 fin.:

obsides,

id. ib. 1, 19, 1;

1, 31, 7 et saep.: patriam (sc. mundum) dii nobis communem secum dederunt,

Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

hominibus animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus,

id. ib. 6, 15; cf. ib. 6, 17:

ea dant magistratus magis, quae etiamsi nolint, danda sint,

id. ib. 1, 31; cf.

imperia,

id. ib. 1, 44:

centuria, ad summum usum urbis fabris tignariis data,

id. ib. 2, 22:

Lycurgus agros locupletium plebi, ut servitio, colendos dedit,

id. ib. 3, 9 fin.:

ei filiam suam in matrimonium dat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 5:

litteras ad te numquam habui cui darem, quin dederim,

Cic. Fam. 12, 19: litteras (ad aliquem), to write to one, saep.; cf. id. Att. 5, 11;

and in the same signif.: aliquid ad aliquem,

id. ib. 10, 8 fin.:

litteras alicui, said of the writer,

to give one a letter to deliver, id. ib. 5, 15 fin.;

of the bearer, rarely,

to deliver a letter to one, id. ib. 5, 4 init.: colloquium dare, to join in a conference, converse ( poet.), Lucr. 4, 598 (Lachm.;

al. videmus): colloquiumque sua fretus ab urbe dedit,

parley, challenge, Prop. 5, 10, 32:

dare poenas,

to give satisfaction, to suffer punishment, Sall. C. 18:

alicui poenas dare,

to make atonement to any one; to suffer for any thing, Ov. M. 6, 544; Sall. C. 51, 31;

v. poena: decus sibi datum esse justitia regis existimabant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 41:

quoniam me quodammodo invitas et tui spem das,

id. ib. 1, 10:

dabant hae feriae tibi opportunam sane facultatem ad explicandas tuas litteras,

id. ib. 1, 9; cf.:

ansas alicui ad reprehendendum,

id. Lael. 16, 59:

multas causas suspicionum offensionumque,

id. ib. 24:

facultatem per provinciam itineris faciundi,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7, 5;

for which: iter alicui per provinciam,

id. ib. 1, 8, 3; Liv. 8, 5; 21, 20 al.:

modicam libertatem populo,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

consilium,

id. Lael. 13:

praecepta,

id. ib. 4 fin.:

tempus alicui, ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 3:

inter se fidem et jusjurandum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3 fin.:

operam,

to bestow labor and pains on any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 55:

operam virtuti,

id. Lael. 22, 84;

also: operam, ne,

id. ib. 21, 78:

veniam amicitiae,

id. ib. 17:

vela (ventis),

to set sail, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187:

dextra vela dare,

to steer towards the right, Ov. 3, 640:

me librum L. Cossinio ad te perferendum dedisse,

Cic. Att. 2, 1:

sin homo amens diripiendam urbem daturus est,

id. Fam. 14, 14 et saep.: ita dat se res, so it is circumstanced, so it is, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 26; cf.:

prout tempus ac res se daret,

Liv. 28, 5 et saep.— Impers.: sic datur, so it goes, such is fate, i. e. you have your reward, Plaut. Truc. 4, 8, 4; id. Ps. 1, 2, 22; id. Men. 4, 2, 40; 64; id. Stich. 5, 6, 5.— Part. perf. sometimes (mostly in poets) subst.: dăta, ōrum, n., gifts, presents, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 72; Prop. 3, 15, 6 (4, 14, 6 M.); Ov. M. 6, 363 (but not in Cic. Clu. 24, 66, where dona data belong together, as in the archaic formula in Liv. 22, 10 init.:

DATVM DONVM DVIT, P. R. Q.).— Prov.: dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus,

Mart. 5, 81, 2; cf.:

dat census honores,

Ov. F. 1, 217.—

Poet. with inf.:

da mihi frui perpetuā virginitate,

allow me, Ov. M. 1, 486; id. ib. 8, 350:

di tibi dent captā classem reducere Trojā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 191; so id. ib. 1, 4, 39; id. Ep. 1, 16, 61; id. A. P. 323 et saep.—

With ne:

da, femina ne sim,

Ov. M. 12, 202.

In partic.

In milit. lang.

Nomina, to enroll one's self for military service, to enlist, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13; Liv. 2, 24; 5, 10; cf.

transf. beyond the military sphere,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 38.—

Manus (lit., as a prisoner of war, to stretch forth the hands to be fettered; cf. Cic. Lael. 26, 99;

hence),

to yield, surrender, Nep. Ham. 1, 4;

and more freq. transf. beyond the milit. sphere,

to yield, acquiesce, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; Cic. Lael. 26, 99; id. Att. 2, 22, 2; Caes. B. G. 5, 31, 3; Ov. H. 4, 14; id. F. 3, 688; Verg. A. 11, 568; Hor. Epod. 17, 1 al.—

Terga, for the usual vertere terga; v. tergum.—

To grant, consent, permit.

Esp. in jurid. lang.: DO, DICO, ADDICO, the words employed by the praetor in the execution of his office; viz. DO in the granting of judges, actions, exceptions, etc.; DICO in pronouncing sentence of judgment; ADDICO in adjudging the property in dispute to one or the other party; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 30 Müll.;

hence called tria verba,

Ov. F. 1, 47.—

Datur, it is permitted, allowed, granted; with subj. clause: quaesitis diu terris, ubi sistere detur, Ov. M. 1, 307:

interim tamen recedere sensim datur,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

ex quo intellegi datur, etc.,

Lact. 5, 20, 11.—

In philos. lang., to grant a proposition:

in geometria prima si dederis, danda sunt omnia: dato hoc, dandum erit illud (followed by concede, etc.),

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 25; id. Inv. 1, 31 fin. —

Designating the limit, to put, place, carry somewhere; and with se, to betake one's self somewhere:

tum genu ad terram dabo,

to throw, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 17; cf.:

aliquem ad terram,

Liv. 31, 37; Flor. 4, 2 fin.:

me haec deambulatio ad languorem dedit!

has fatigued me, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

hanc mihi in manum dat,

id. And. 1, 5, 62:

praecipitem me in pistrinum dabit,

id. ib. 1, 3, 9:

hostes in fugam,

Caes. B. G. 5, 51 fin.:

hostem in conspectum,

to bring to view, Liv. 3, 69 fin.:

aliquem in vincula,

to cast into prison, Flor. 3, 10, 18; cf.:

arma in profluentes,

id. 4, 12, 9:

aliquem usque Sicanium fretum,

Val. Fl. 2, 28:

aliquem leto,

to put to death, to kill, Phaedr. 1, 22, 9:

se in viam,

to set out on a journey, Cic. Fam. 14, 12:

sese in fugam,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 43 fin.; cf.:

se fugae,

id. Att. 7, 23, 2:

Socrates, quam se cumque in partem dedisset, omnium fuit facile princeps,

id. de Or. 3, 16, 60 et saep.—

Designating the effect, to cause, make, bring about, inflict, impose:

qui dederit damnum aut malum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 116:

nec consulto alteri damnum dari sine dolo malo potest,

Cic. Tull. 14, 34; 16, 39; cf.:

malum dare,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 122:

hoc quī occultari facilius credas dabo,

Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 29:

inania duro vulnera dat ferro,

Ov. M. 3, 84:

morsus,

Prop. 5, 5, 39; cf.:

motus dare,

to impart motion, Lucr. 1, 819 al. (but motus dare, to make motion, to move, be moved, id. 2, 311):

stragem,

id. 1, 288:

equitum ruinas,

to overthrow, id. 5, 1329.—With part. fut. pass.:

pectora tristitiae dissolvenda dedit,

caused to be delivered from sadness, Tib. 1, 7, 40.—

Prov.: dant animos vina,

Ov. M. 12, 242. —

Aliquid alicui, to do any thing for the sake of another; to please or humor another; to give up, sacrifice any thing to another (for the more usual condonare): da hoc illi mortuae, da ceteris amicis ac familiaribus, da patriae, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5 fin.: aliquid auribus alicujus, Trebon. ib. 12, 16:

Caere hospitio Vestalium cultisque diis,

Liv. 7, 20:

plus stomacho quam consilio,

Quint. 10, 1, 117 et saep.:

ut concessisti illum senatui, sic da hunc populo,

i. e. forgive him, for the sake of the people, Cic. Lig. 12, 37:

dabat et famae, ut, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 7.—Hence,

Se alicui, to give one's self up wholly, to devote, dedicate one's self to a person or thing, to serve:

dedit se etiam regibus,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4; so Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 10; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 10; Poëta ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; Nep. Att. 9; Tac. A. 1, 31:

mihi si large volantis ungula se det equi,

Stat. Silv, 2, 2, 38; 1, 1, 42; 5, 3, 71 al.; Aus. Mosel. 5, 448; cf. Ov. H. 16, 161:

se et hominibus Pythagoreis et studiis illis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 111:

se sermonibus vulgi,

id. ib. 6, 23:

se jucunditati,

id. Off. 1, 34 al.:

se populo ac coronae,

to present one's self, appear, id. Verr. 2, 3, 19; cf.:

se convivio,

Suet. Caes. 31 et saep.:

si se dant (judices) et sua sponte quo impellimus inclinant,

Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 187.—

Of discourse, to announce, tell, relate, communicate (like accipere, for to learn, to hear, v. accipio, II.; mostly ante-class. and poet.):

erili filio hanc fabricam dabo,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 132:

quam ob rem has partes didicerim, paucis dabo,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 10; cf. Verg. E. 1, 19:

imo etiam dabo, quo magis credas,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 37:

da mihi nunc, satisne probas?

Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

Thessalici da bella ducis,

Val. Fl. 5, 219:

is datus erat locus colloquio,

appointed, Liv. 33, 13:

fixa canens... Saepe dedit sedem notas mutantibus urbes,

i. e. foretold, promised, Luc. 5, 107.—In pass., poet. i. q.: narratur, dicitur, fertur, etc., is said:

seu pius Aeneas eripuisse datur,

Ov. F. 6, 434; Stat. Th. 7, 315; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 337.—

Fabulam, to exhibit, produce a play (said of the author; cf.:

docere fabulam, agere fabulam),

Cic. Brut. 18 fin.; id. Tusc. 1, 1 fin.; Ter. Eun. prol. 9; 23; id. Heaut. prol. 33; id. Hec. prol. 1 Don.;

and transf.,

Cic. Clu. 31, 84; cf.

also: dare foras librum = edere,

Cic. Att. 13, 22, 3.—

Verba (alicui), to give [p. 605] empty words, i. e. to deceive, cheat, Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 25; id. Ps. 4, 5, 7; id. Rud. 2, 2, 19; Ter. And. 1, 3, 6 Ruhnk.; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 24; Cic. Phil. 13, 16 fin.; id. Att. 15, 16 A.; Hor. S. 1, 3, 22; Pers. 4, 45; Mart. 2, 76 et saep.—

Alicui aliquid (laudi, crimini, vitio, etc.), to impute, assign, ascribe, attribute a thing to any one, as a merit, a crime, a fault, etc.:

nunc quam rem vitio dent, quaeso animum attendite,

Ter. And. prol. 8:

hoc vitio datur,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 64:

inopiā criminum summam laudem Sex. Roscio vitio et culpae dedisse,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48; id. Off. 1, 21, 71; 2, 17, 58; id. Div. in Caecil. 10; id. Brut. 80, 277 et saep.—

Alicui cenam, epulas, etc., to give one a dinner, entertain at table (freq.):

qui cenam parasitis dabit,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 2; 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 4, 1, 8; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 45; Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2; id. Mur. 36, 75:

prandium dare,

id. ib. 32, 67; cf. Sen. Ben. 1, 14, 1; Tac. A. 2, 57 al.—

To grant, allow, in gen. (rare, but freq. as impers.; v. B. 2. supra):

dari sibi diem postulabat,

a respite, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 32.

- do, -dāre ( obsol., found only in the compounds, abdo, condo, abscondo, indo, etc.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. root dhā-, da-dhāmi, set, put, place; Gr. the-, tithêmi; Ger. thun, thue, that; Eng. do, deed, etc.]. This root is distinct from 1. do, Sanscr. dā, in most of the Arian langg.; cf. Pott. Etym. Forsch. 2, 484; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 410;

but in Italy the two seem to have been confounded, at least in compounds,

Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 254 sq.; cf. Max Müller, Science of Lang. Ser. 2, p. 220, N. Y. ed.; Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 100.

do, acc. of domus, v. domus init.

dūco, xi, ctum, 3 ( imp. duc;

but duce,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 18; id. Most. 1, 4, 11; id. Poen. 5, 4, 59; id. Rud. 2, 3, 55; id. Trin. 2, 2, 103; id. Truc. 2, 5, 26.— Perf. sync.: duxti, Varr. ap. Non. 283, 32; Cat. 91, 9; Prop. 1, 3, 27), v. a. [cf. Goth. tiuh-an; O. H. Germ. zieh-an, to draw; Germ. -zog, in Herzog, commander, duke], to lead, conduct, draw, bring forward, in all senses; very freq. passing over into the signif. of the compounds abducere, deducere, adducere, producere, etc., and of the synonyms agere, trahere, movere, etc. (very freq.).

Lit.

In gen.:

quo sequar? quo ducis nunc me?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 2: duc hos intro, id. Am. 2, 2, 224; id. Aul. 2, 6, 13:

duc ac demonstra mihi,

id. Cist. 2, 3, 36:

suas secum mulierculas sunt in castra ducturi,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10 fin.; cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 5 fin. et saep.:

(difficile iter) vix qua singuli carri ducerentur,

id. ib. 1, 6, 1; cf.

plaustra,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 34: aquam ducere, Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.; so,

aquam per fundum ejus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, § 4:

spiritum naribus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 5: so,

spiritum per siccas fauces,

Sen. Ben. 3, 8; cf.:

aërem spiritu,

Cic. N. D. 2, 6 fin.:

animam spiritu,

id. ib. 2, 54, 136; and in gen.: spiritum, for to live, id. Fam. 10, 1; cf.:

vitam et spiritum,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 33:

tura naribus,

to inhale, Hor. C. 4, 1, 22:

sucos nectaris,

to drink in full draughts, to quaff, id. ib. 3, 3, 34; cf.

pocula,

id. ib. 1, 17, 22; and:

Liberum,

id. ib. 4, 12, 14.— Poet.:

jucunda oblivia vitae (referring to the waters of Lethe),

Hor. S. 2, 6, 62 (cf. Verg. A. 6, 714 sq.) et saep.:

mucronem,

to draw from the scabbard, Verg. A. 12, 378; cf.:

ferrum vaginā,

Ov. F. 4, 929:

ensem vagina,

Sil. 8, 342;

but: ensem duxerat faber,

had beaten out, forged, Tib. 1, 3, 48:

sortem,

Cic. Div. 2, 33; Verg. A. 6, 22;

hence, also transf. of that which is drawn by lot,

Cic. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Rep. 1, 34; Suet. Caes. 12; Tac. A. 1, 54; 3, 28 al.:

pondus aratri,

to draw, Ov. M. 7, 119:

remos,

to row, id. ib. 1, 294; cf. id. ib. 4, 353:

numerosa brachia,

in dancing, id. Am. 2, 4, 29:

lanas,

to spin, id. ib. 4, 34; cf.

stamina,

id. ib. 4, 221:

ubera,

to milk, id. ib. 9, 358:

frena manu,

to guide, govern, id. ib. 15, 518: vela, to haul (= navigare), Prop. 1, 6, 2:

manus, of swimming,

id. 3, 20, 2:

ilia,

to draw the flanks together, become broken-winded, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 9:

os,

to draw awry, to make wry faces, Cic. Or. 25 fin.; Quint. 9, 3, 101; cf.

vultum,

Ov. M. 2, 774; id. P. 4, 8, 13; Mart. 1, 41 et saep.:

non equus impiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem,

to draw along, Hor. C. 4, 3, 5; cf. id. Ep. 1, 1, 93.— Absol.:

sibi quisque ducere, trahere, rapere,

to take to one's self, appropriate, Sall. J. 41, 5.—

Esp.

To lead, conduct, as a way or road:

via ducit (te), in urbem?

Verg. E. 9, 1; cf. Plin. Ep. 7, 5; Verg. A. 1, 401; Ov. F. 2, 679:

Brundisium Minuci melius via ducat an Appi,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 20:

via ad undas,

Ov. M. 3, 602:

via ad infernas sedes,

id. ib. 4, 433; cf.:

iter ad urbem,

id. ib. 437; Curt. 3, 28, 19; Sen. Prov. 6, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 1; Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 111; Quint. 5, 9, 14; Liv. 5, 40, 8 al.—

Se, in colloq. lang., to betake one's self, go:

jam me ad regem recta ducam,

Plaut. Am. 4, 3, 8; id. Aul. 4, 8, 8; id. Bacch. 4, 2, 11; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 7: Balbus duxit se a Gadibus, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1.—

A legal t. t., to take, lead away, drag, carry off a person before court, to prison, to punishment, etc.: POST. DEINDE. MANVS. INIECTIO. ESTO. IN. IVS. DVCITO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; so,

in jus,

Liv. 2, 27:

illos duci in carcerem jubent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 30:

aliquem in carcerem,

Suet. Caes. 20:

in vincula,

id. ib. 79:

ad mortem,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 1; Nep. Phoc. 4, 3; and absol.:

ducite, ubi capiat, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 65; Sen. de Ira, 1, 16, 14; Suet. Calig. 27; Plin. Ep. 10, 97, 3 al.: NI. IVDICATVM. FACIT. AVT. QVIS. ENDO. EM. IVRE. VINDICIT. SECVM. DVCITO. VINCITO, etc., XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45:

decreta ejus modi: SI PETIT DUCAS. C. Fuficium duci jussit petitorem,

to be imprisoned, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 12, § 31; so of a debtor (addictus) who is led off as a slave, Novat. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255; Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 87; Cic. Fl. 20 fin.; Liv. 6, 14 sq.; cf. id. 2, 23 med.; cf.

prov.: stultitiast venatum ducere invitas canes,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 83. —

Uxorem, to lead a wife home, i. e. to marry:

bona uxor si ea deducta est, etc.... Verum egon eam ducam domum, Quae, etc.?

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 91:

uxorem domum,

id. Aul. 2, 1, 40; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 68:

filiam Orgetorigis in matrimonium,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9, 3; cf. Liv. 4, 4:

eum uxorem ducturum esse aliam,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 105:

uxorem (or aliquam, filiam alicujus, etc.),

id. Aul. 2, 1, 48; id. Cas. prol. 69 et saep.; Ter. And. 1, 1, 128; 2, 1, 21 et saep.; Cic. Sest. 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 4; id. B. C. 3, 110, 2; Verg. E. 8, 29; Vulg. Marc. 10, 11 et saep.— Absol.:

si tu negaris ducere,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 5; 2, 3, 9; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 76; Liv. 4, 4 al.: jugum ducere cum infidelibus, i. e. to be yoked in marriage, Vulg. 2 Cor. 6, 14.—Rarely for nubere: si ignorans statum Erotis ut liberum duxisti, isque postea servus est judicatus, etc., Imp. Antonin. ap. Cod. Just. 5, 18, 3.—In the comic poets, of taking home prostitutes, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 35; 4, 2, 44; id. Men. 1, 2, 15; id. Stich. 5, 4, 48; id. Truc. 3, 2, 10 et saep.—

In milit. lang.

Said of a commander, to lead, to cause to move, to march his army in any direction:

locis apertis exercitum ducere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 41, 4; cf. id. B. C. 1, 64 fin.; 1, 68, 1:

exercitum ab Allobrogibus in Segusianos,

id. B. G. 1, 10 fin.:

exercitum in fines Suessionum,

id. ib. 2, 12, 1; cf. id. ib. 4, 38, 3;

5, 18, 1: exercitum (legiones, etc.) in Bellovacos,

id. ib. 2, 13, 1; 5, 24, 2 et saep.; cf. Tac. A. 2, 57:

cohortes ad eam partem munitionum, quae, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 3, 62, 2:

exercitum Uticam,

id. ib. 2, 26, 1:

reliquas copias contra Labienum,

id. B. G. 7, 61 fin. et saep.—In pass., of the soldiers, to march, move:

quam in partem aut quo consilio ducerentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 2.—And in act., absol., of the general himself, to march, move (a favorite expression of Liv.;

not in Caes. or Sall.): (Mettus) ducit, quam proxime ad hostem potest,

Liv. 1, 23; 1, 27; 9, 35; 22, 18 et saep.—Hence,

In gen., to lead, command an army or (more freq.) a division:

qua in legatione duxit exercitum,

Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so,

exercitum,

Nep. Eum. 13, 1; id. Epam. 7, 3:

qui superiore anno primum pilum duxerat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35, 6; 6, 38, 1; id. B. C. 3, 91, 1:

ordinem,

id. ib. 1, 13, 4; 3, 104, 3; Suet. Vesp. 1:

partem exercitūs,

Sall. J. 55, 4 et saep.—Rarely, to lead a division in front, in advance:

consuetudine sua Caesar sex legiones expeditas ducebat: post eas... inde, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 2; hence also, to march in front, take the lead, said of the division that forms the van:

pars equitum et auxiliariae cohortes ducebant, mox prima legio, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 51; cf. id. ib. 1, 64 fin. —

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, to lead, to be leader, head, chief, first in any thing:

accedit etiam, quod familiam ducit,

Cic. Fam. 7, 5 fin. Manut.; so,

familiam,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 30; id. Fin. 4, 16, 45:

ordines,

id. Phil. 1, 8, 20:

classem (discipulorum),

Quint. 1, 2, 24 Spald.:

funus,

Hor. Epod. 8, 12:

toros,

Ov. F. 6, 668 et saep.—

To conduct as prisoners in a triumph:

per triumphum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 67:

in triumpho,

Plin. 7, 43, 45, § 139, v. triumphus.—

With the accessory idea of creation, formation, to produce, form, construct, make, fashion, shape, dispose (cf.:

struo, pono, condo, fundo): parietem per vestibulum alicujus,

to erect, Cic. Mil. 27 fin.; cf.

muros,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 23:

vallum ex castris ad aquam,

Caes. B. C. 1, 73, 2:

fossam,

id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; 7, 73, 2:

arcum,

Ov. M. 3, 160:

lateres de terra,

Vitr. 2, 3:

vivos vultus de marmore (with excudere spirantia aera),

Verg. A. 6, 849; cf. id. ib. 7, 634; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 240; Varr. ap. Non. 283, 32; Plin. 7, 37, 38, § 125; Quint. 10, 3, 18 Spald.; Juv. 7, 237; hence, poet. also:

epos,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 44:

carmen,

Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 18; 3, 14, 32:

versus,

id. ib. 5, 12, 63 et saep.:

liniam ex colore,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 81; Quint. 2, 6, 2; cf.

orbem,

id. 11, 3, 118:

alvum,

to bring forth by clysters, Cels. 2, 12; 4, 4 et saep.: alapam alicui, qs. to fetch one a box on the ear, Phaedr. 5, 3, 2; cf.

colaphum,

Quint. 6, 3, 83 Spald.:

pugnum,

Dig. 47, 10, 4 et saep.;

so esp. of processions, dances, etc.: funus,

Cic. Quint. 15 fin.; Ov. M. 14, 746; Verg. G. 4, 256; cf.

exsequias,

Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154:

pompam,

Ov. H. 12, 152; id. F. 6, 405; id. M. 13, 699:

choros,

Tib. 2, 1, 56; Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6 et saep.; cf.

choreas,

Ov. M. 8, 582; 14, 520.—

To receive, admit, take any thing (not ante-Aug.):

cicatricem,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 66; Liv. 29, 32, 12:

rimam,

Ov. M. 4, 65:

situm,

to grow rusty, Quint. 1, 2, 18:

formam,

Ov. M. 1, 402:

colorem,

id. ib. 3, 485; cf.

pallorem,

to grow pale, id. ib. 8, 760:

nomina,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 76:

notam,

id. ib. 4, 2, 59 et saep.

Trop.

In gen., to lead, guide, draw, conduct:

progredimur quo ducit quemque voluntas,

Lucr. 2, 258; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 27; 1, 6, 57:

ad strepitum citharae cessatum ducere curam,

id. ib. 1, 2, 31:

Liber vota bonos ducit ad exitus,

id. C. 4, 8, 34; cf. Quint. 12, 1, 26:

per quaedam parva sane ducant (futurum oratorem),

id. 1, 10, 5; cf. id. 1, 1, 27; 1, 5, 58.—Prov.:

ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt,

Sen. Ep. 107.—

In partic.

To draw, deduce, [p. 616] derive its origin or beginning from, any thing:

ab aliqua re totius vitae ducere exordium,

Cic. Fin. 5, 7, 18; cf.:

exordium a nostra persona,

Quint. 3, 8, 8; 4, 1, 7:

principium disputationis a principe investigandae veritatis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 21 fin.:

belli initium a fame,

id. Att. 9, 9, 2; cf. Quint. 1, 1, 21:

initia causasque omnium ex quatuor temporum mutationibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

originem ab Isocrate,

Quint. 2, 15, 4; 1, 6, 38; Hor. C. 3, 17, 5 al.:

ingressionem non ex oratoriis disputationibus, sed, etc.,

Cic. Or. 3, 11:

honestum ab iis rebus,

id. Off. 1, 18, 60; id. Or. 39, 135:

nomen ex quo,

id. Ac. 11, 41; cf.:

nomen a Graeco,

Quint. 1, 6, 3; 3, 7, 1; Hor. S. 2, 1, 66 et saep.; cf.

also: utrumque (sc. amor et amicitia) ductum (al. dictum) est ab amando,

Cic. Lael. 27; id. Fin. 2, 24, 78.—

To lead a person, as regards his will or opinions, in any direction; to move, incite, induce, allure, in a good or bad sense (most freq. in the pass.):

ita me ad credendum tua ducit oratio,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 18:

nos ducit scholarum consuetudo,

Quint. 4, 2, 28; 5, 11, 19; cf. id. 9, 1, 21:

ducit te species,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 35 et saep.:

declamatores quosdam perversa ducit ambitio, ut, etc.,

Quint. 10, 7, 21.—In the pass.:

si quis statuarum honore aut gloria ducitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58 fin.:

eloquentiae laude,

id. Or. 32, 115:

quaestu et lucro,

id. Tusc. 5, 3, 9:

hoc errore ut, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 41; cf.:

litteris eorum et urbanitate, ut, etc.,

id. Rosc. Am. 41, 120:

omnes trahimur et ducimur ad cognitionis et scientiae cupiditatem,

id. Off. 1, 6 et saep.—

In a bad sense, to cheat, deceive, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 26; id. Capt. 4, 2, 7; Ter. And. 4, 1, 20; id. Ph. 3, 2, 15; Prop. 2, 17, 1 (3, 8, 1 M.); Ov. H. 19, 13; id. M. 3, 587 (with decipere).—

With regard to time, to draw out, extend, protract, prolong:

bellum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 4; id. B. C. 2, 18, 6; 2, 37, 5 sq.; Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2; Liv. 22, 25 et saep.; cf.:

bellum longius,

Caes. B. C. 1, 64, 2; 3, 42, 3:

bellum in hiemem,

id. ib. 1, 61, 3:

eam rem longius,

id. B. G. 7, 11, 4; cf.:

rem prope in noctem,

id. B. C. 3, 51, 7:

rem leniter,

Liv. 3, 41 et saep. Also transf., of time itself:

tempus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11; Nep. Them. 7:

diem ex die,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 4; and of persons who are put off, delayed:

ubi se diutius duci intellexit,

id. ib. 1, 16, 5.—Less freq. (mostly poet.),

In gen., of time, to pass, spend, enjoy:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 50; so,

aetatem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 202:

vitam,

id. Epod. 17, 63; Sen. Ep. 45, 10; cf. Verg. A. 2, 641 (where, shortly before, vitam producere):

noctes,

Prop. 1, 11, 5; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 13:

somnos,

Verg. A. 4, 560.—

In mercant. lang., to calculate, compute, reckon: age nunc summam sumptus duc, Lucil. ap. Non. 283, 30:

minimum ut sequamur, quoniam XC. medimnūm milia duximus, accedant eo, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 49; id. Att. 6, 1, 5 and 16; 6, 2, 7; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 11; Gell. 1, 20, 5.—

Transf. beyond the mercant. sphere.

Rationem alicujus, to consider, calculate, care for one's advantage or interest (a favorite expression of Cicero):

duxi meam rationem, quam tibi facile me probaturum arbitrabar,

Cic. Att. 8, 11 D, § 7; so,

suam quoque rationem,

to have respect to one's own advantage, id. Verr. 2, 1, 48; and:

non minorem aratorum quam populi rationem,

Suet. Aug. 42 fin.:

salutis meae rationem,

Cic. Fam. 7, 3:

rationem officii, non commodi,

id. Sest. 10, 23; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 44, 128:

unius cujusque temporis ducta ratio est,

id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 16:

rationem officii atque existimationis,

id. Quint. 16, 53.—

In gen., to reckon, consider, hold, account, esteem as any thing (cf. aestimo and existimo;

very freq. in prose and poetry): parvi id ducebat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24:

pro nihilo aliquid,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 85; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 16 fin.; id. Tusc. 5, 32, 90; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28:

ea pro falsis ducit,

Sall. C. 3, 2; cf.:

innocentiam pro malevolentia,

id. ib. 12, 1:

vos eritis judices, Laudin' an vitio duci id factum oportuit,

Ter. Ad. prol. 5; so,

aliquid honori,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

aliquid laudi, Nep. praef. § 4: aliquem despicatui,

Cic. Fl. 27, 65: nihil praeter virtutem in bonis ducere (for which, shortly after, in bonis habere = numerare), Cic. Fin. 3, 3;

aliquem in numero hostium,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 25 fin.; Caes. B. G. 6, 32, 1; cf. ib. 6, 23, 8; without in, ib. 6, 21, 2; cf.:

aliquem loco affinium,

Sall. J. 14, 1 Kritz. N. cr.: aliquid testimonii loco, Quint. 5, 9, 10:

tutelae nostrae duximus, cum Africo bello urgerentur,

Liv. 21, 41; cf.:

officii duxit exorare filiae patrem, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11:

faceret, quod e republica fideque sua duceret,

id. ib. 25, 7 et saep.:

malum cum amici tuum ducis malum,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 48; cf.:

Archytas iracundiam seditionem quandam animi vere ducebat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38:

eorum, quos idoneos ducebat, consilium habet,

Sall. J. 62, 4:

nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 83.— With acc. and inf.:

sic equidem ducebam animo rebarque futurum,

Verg. A. 6, 690:

ut omnia tua in te posita esse ducas humanosque casus virtute inferiores putes,

Cic. Lael. 2, 7, 19 fin.; id. Rep. 1, 2; 1, 17; 1, 38; 3, 9 (three times); Sall. J. 93, 5; Liv. 22, 14, 6; 22, 59, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 2; 4, 30, 2; 6, 18 et saep.—Here too probably belongs the much disputed passage: ludos et inania honoris medio rationis atque abundantiae duxit (= ludos publicos cum aliis rebus quae ad inania honoris pertinent, duxit, i. e. existimavit habendos et ponendos in medio rationis atque abundantiae, ut inter rationem, quae plane spernit inania, et abundantiam, quae eadem ostentat, media via incederet), he thought right to manage them in a middle course between reason and profusion, Tac. Agr. 6 fin., v. Dübner and Orell. ad h. l.