whether the plebeians should be admitted to the number of the decemvirs

ad-miscĕo, scui, xtum (better than -stum), 2, v. a., to add to by mingling, to mix with, mingle with, to admix (in admiscere there is a ref. to a principal constituent, to which something is added; in immiscere, to the intimate union of the ingredients; in permiscere, to the removal of their distinct characteristics).

Lit., constr. with the abl. of that with which any thing is mingled:

aër multo calore admixtus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27 (cf. on the contr. ib. § 26: aquae admixtum calorem;

and soon after: admixtum calorem): genus radicis admixtum lacte,

Caes. B. C. 3, 48.— With in with acc.:

admixtis in heminam seminis resinae coclearibus duobus,

Plin. 26, 10, 66, § 104.—With cum:

admiscent torrefacta sesama cum aniso,

Col. 12, 15.—

Transf.

Of things, to mingle in, to mix with, to add to, etc.:

nec tamen admiscent in eorum corpus inane,

Lucr. 1, 745: deus bonis omnibus mundum implevit;

mali nihil admiscuit,

Cic. Univ. 3: se admiscere atque implicare hominum vitiis, id. Fragm. ap. Aug. de Trin. 14, 19:

sed hoc cum iis rationibus admisceri nolo,

be mixed up, id. Att. 7, 1:

admiscere huic generi orationis illud alterum,

id. de Or. 2, 49:

versus admiscere orationi,

id. Tusc. 2, 11, 26:

admiscenda venus est timori,

Ov. A. A. 3, 609:

non admixtus fidei,

Vulg. Heb. 4, 2; ib. Eccli. 23, 10.—

Of persons.

To mix up with, to add or join to:

his Antonianos milites admiscuerat,

Caes. B. C. 3. 4:

expeditos antesignanos admiscuit,

id. ib. 3, 75 fin.:

ad id consilium admisceor,

Cic. Phil. 12, 16:

admiscerenturne plebeii,

i. e. whether the plebeians should be admitted to the number of the decemvirs, Liv. 3, 32, 7:

admixti funditoribus sagittarii,

Curt. 3, 9; Verg. A. 7, 579.—

To involve or entangle in a thing: se, to interfere or meddle with:

ita tu istaec tua misceto, ne me admisceas,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 35:

ne te admisce: nemo accusat, Syre, te,

id. ib. 5, 2, 22:

ad id consilium admiscear?

Cic. Phil. 12, 7:

Trebatium vero meum, quod isto admisceas nihil est,

implicate, involve in, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3.—Hence, admixtus, a, um, P. a., that is mingled with something, mixed, not simple:

simplex animi natura est, nec habet in se quidquam admixtum,

Cic. de Sen. 21:

nihil est animis admixtum, nihil concretum, nihil copulatum, nihil coagmentatum, nihil duplex,

id. Tusc. 1, 29.— Comp., sup., and adv. not used.