Seduco, sedûcis, pen. prod. seduxi, seductum, seducere. Cic.To leade aside or amay: to decelue: to separate or diuide.Manu blanda seduxit eum.Ouid.Heled him alide.Castra seducere. Ou. To separate the army in two partes.Seducere ocellos. Propert. To turne his eyes aside.Qoum mors anima seduxerit artus.Virg.When death hath sep arated the sole and the body.Animum corpore seducere.Cic. Seducere in malam parrem per translationem. Ci. Todeceiue: to seduce.
Seductus, huius seductus, m. g. Verbale. Seneca. A voide place from company.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sē-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.I.To lead aside or apart, to draw aside; to lead away, carry off; to set aside, put by, etc. (syn. sevoco). A.Lit. (class.): te huc foras seduxi, Ut, etc., Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 14; cf.: Pamphilus me solum seducit foras, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 69: me rursus seducit, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 12: aliquem solum seorsum ab aedibus, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 95: aliquem paululum a turbā, Petr. 13, 2: singulos separatim, Liv. 30, 5: aliquem blandā manu, Ov. M. 2, 691: aliquem in secretum, Phaedr. 3, 10, 11 al.— Absol.: prehendit dextram, seducit, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 60: quod a te seductus est tuoque beneficio adhuc vivit,
, Prop. 1, 9, 27.— Of abstract subjects: et dum avaritia seducere aliquid cupit atque in suum vertere, omnia fecit aliena,
to lay by
, Sen. Ep. 90, 38. —B.Trop.1. In gen., to remove, separate, etc. (not ante-Aug. and rare): quiddam a corporibus seductum, Sen. Ep. 117, 13: non potes (Helvia) ad obtinendum dolorem muliebre nomen praetendere, ex quo te virtutes tuae seduxerunt,
have removed
,
separated you
, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 16: vacuos ocellos, Prop. 1, 9, 27.—2. In partic., to lead astray, mislead, seduce (eccl. Lat.), Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 8; Aug. Conf. 2, 3 med.; id. Tract. in Johan. 29; id. Civ. Dei, 14, 11 fin.; Vulg. Exod. 22, 16 et saep.—II.Tc. put asunder, separate, divide (only poet. and rare; syn.: secerno, sejungo): seducit terras haec brevis unda duas, Ov. H. 19, 142; so, immensos recessus (Caspia claustra), Luc. 8, 291: quarto seducunt castra volatu, i. e.
divide into two adverse squadrons
, Ov. M. 13, 611: plura locuturi subito seducimur imbre, id. F. 4, 385.—With abl.: cum frigida mors animā seduxerit artus, Verg. A. 4, 385.—Hence, sēductus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), remote, distant, apart (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): ex alto seductas aethere longe Despectat terras, Ov. M. 4, 622: recessus gurgitis, id. ib. 13, 902. —Of distance in an upward direction: mons erat audaci seductus in aethera dorso,
far uplifted
,
lofty
, Stat. Th. 3, 460: consilia non publica sed in privato seductaque a plurium conscientiā, Liv. 2, 54, 7: ut illis non minus hos seductos et quasi rusticos,
retired
,
living in solitude
, Plin. Ep. 7, 25, 5: seductum vitae genus,
retired
, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 2; cf.: quorum (hominum) maxime in seducto actiones sunt,