to fetch from far

arcesso (and accerso), īvi, ītum, 3, v. a. ( inf. arcessire and arcessiri, like lacessiri instead of lacessi, freq. and in the best class. writers, though the MSS. and editt. vary very much; cf. Struve, p. 198.—The form accerso, used freq. by Sall., has been unjustly repudiated; cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 281 sq.; Kritz ad Sall. C. 40, 6, and the grammarians cited by both;

Dietsch,

Sall. II. p. 145; Rib. prol. in Verg. p. 388) [causat. from accedo; cf. incesso from incedo; ar = ad].

Lit., to cause any one to come, to call, send for, invite, summon, fetch (while accio designates merely the calling, without indicating the coming of the person called, Doed. Syn. III. p. 283).

In gen.:

aliquem ad aliquem,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 1:

Blepharonem arcessat, qui nobiscum prandeat,

id. Am. 3, 2, 70:

quaeso, hominem ut jubeas arcessi,

id. Capt. 5, 1, 29; so id. Bacch. 2, 3, 120; 4, 6, 26; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28; so,

arcessiturus,

id. Cas. 3, 2, 23; 3, 4, 11:

arcessitum,

id. Rud. 4, 4, 12:

jussit me ad se accersier,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 4 Bentl., where Fleck. reads arcessier:

obstetricem arcesse,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 56; so id. ib. 5, 7, 6; and id. Eun. 3, 5, 44 al.:

cum ab aratro arcessebantur, qui consules fierent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18:

sacra ab exteris nationibus ascita atque arcessita,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 51 fin.; so id. ib. 5, 18:

ejus librum arcessivi,

id. Att. 16, 11:

ex continenti alios (fabros) accersi jubet,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11 Dinter:

Gabinium accersit,

Sall. C. 40, 6; so id. ib. 52, 24;

60, 4: cunctos senatorii ordinis accersiri jubet,

id. J. 62, 4; so id. ib. 113, 4:

Agrippam ad se arcessi jussit,

Nep. Att. 21, 4:

Pisonem arcessi jubet,

Tac. H. 1, 14 al.:

placere patrem arcessiri,

Liv. 3, 45:

aliquem ab Epidauro Romam arcessendum,

id. 10, 47:

Ityn huc arcessite,

Ov. M. 6, 652; so id. ib. 15, 640; Hor. S. 2, 3, 261:

sin melius quid (sc. vini) habes, arcesse,

order it, let it be brought, id. Ep. 1, 5, 6 al. — Trop.:

Illic homo a me sibi malam rem arcessit jumento suo, prov.,

this man brings misfortunes upon his own head, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 171:

quies molli strato arcessita,

Liv. 21, 4; so,

somnum medicamentis,

Cels. 3, 18:

gloriam ex periculo,

Curt. 8, 13 fin. al.—

Esp. in judic. lang., to summon, arraign one, before a court of justice; hence, in gen., to accuse, inform against; constr. aliquem alicujus rei:

ut hunc hoc judicio arcesseret,

Cic. Fl. 6; so id. Rab. Perd. 9:

ne quem umquam innocentem judicio capitis arcessas,

to accuse of a capital crime, id. Off. 2, 14, 51:

aliquem capitis,

id. Deiot. 11:

pecuniae captae,

Sall. J. 32, 1:

majestatis,

Tac. A. 2, 50:

tumultus hostilis,

id. ib. 4, 29:

veneni crimine,

Suet. Tib. 53; also absol.:

arcessiri statim ac mori jussus est,

id. Claud. 37.— Trop.: inscitiae, Nigid. ap Gell. 19, 14. —

Transf. to mental objects, to bring, fetch, seek, or derive a subject, thought, quality, etc.:

a capite quod velimus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 117; so id. Top. 9:

translationes orationi splendoris aliquid arcessunt,

id. de Or. 3, 38, 156:

ex medio res arcessere,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 168:

longe arcessere fabulas coepi,

to fetch from far, Petr. 37.—Hence, arcessitus (in opp. to that which comes of itself, and is therefore natural), far-fetched, forced, unnatural (syn. durus):

cavendum est, ne arcessitum dictum putetur,

that an expression may not appear forced, far-fetched, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

frigidi et arcessiti joci,

Suet. Claud. 21:

in Lysiā nihil est inane, nihil arcessitum,

Quint. 10, 1, 78; cf. id. 2, 4, 3; 9, 3, 74; 12, 10, 40 al.

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,