Abduco, abdûcis, penult, longa, abduxi, abductum, abdúcere. To leade away: to leade out: to take allde: to pull away: to withdraw: to take with.Sine vi.Terent.Tum me conuiuam solum abducebat sibi.Then he tooke me alone home with him as his guest, and none but me.Per vim.Cicer.Familiam abduxit, pecus abegit.He ledde away by force.Abducere vi, vel per vim.Cic.Abducere in aliquem locum.Terent.Cic.Abductum in secretum Masinissam sic alloquitur. Liuius. He tooke Masinissa aside into a secret place.Abducere rus.Plaut.Abducere in diuersum nido. Plin. To leade away cleane contrary from his neast.Abducere in seruitutem. Cæs. To leade into bondage. Abduci etiam pecora dicuntur.Ouid. Vos abducam testibus.Cicer.I will bring you from your witnesses.Abducere meretricio quæstu.Cic.To withdraw.Aciem mentis consuetudine oculorum.Cic.To withdraw the cogitation of our minde, from those things that customably we vse.Animum cogitationibus.Cicer.To withdrawe the minde from fantasies, cogitations and musings.Animum solicitudine.Cic.From heauy pensiuenesse.Discipulum pra ceptore.Cic.To turne a scholler from his maysters opinion: to withdrawe a scholler from his maister.Ab angoribus & molestijs abducere se.Cic.To withdrawe or pull backe him selfe from sorow and heauinesse.Abducere equitatum ab aliquo ad se.Cicer.To withdrawe the horsemen from the capitaine to him: to cause them to forsake their capitaine, and come to his seruice.Seruum ab aliquo.Cic.Vxorem viro.Cic.To make the wife forsake hit husband, and follow him.Abduci ab institutis suis pecunia.Cic.To be ledde from his purpose with money or brides.Abducere aliquem ad nequitiam.Terent.To leade one from honestie to lewdnesse or ill.Abducere re aliqua hominem, & ad aliam traducere.Cic.Abducere aliquem Republica. Merellus Ciceroni. To cause one to forsake the gouernment or affayres of the cõmon weale: to withdraw him from it.Abduco me ab omni Reip. cura, dedóque literis. Cic. Abducere ex acte.Cic.To bring out from the front of the battell. Abducere quempiam fide.Cic.To cause one to breake his faith and troth: or to doe contrary to that he hath promised.Abducere caput ab ictu.Virg.To turne his heade from the stroke.Abducere gradum. Silius. To steppe backe: to retype.Abducere somnum.Ouid.To keepe from sleeping.Abducto intus visu. Plin. Looking backe inward. Nec abducar vt rear, aut in, & c.Cic.I will not be led, perswaded, or made to thinke either &c. Clauem abduxi.Plaut.I haue kept or brought away the key.Auferre & Abducere.Cic. Abduce pro Abduc dixit Terentius.
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ab-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (ABDOVCIT =abduit, in the epitaph of Scipio, Inscr. Orell. 550; perf. abduxti, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 16; imper. abduce, id. Bacch. 4, 9, 108; id. Curc. 5, 3, 15; Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 36; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 63; but also abduc, id. Eun. 2, 3, 86), to lead one away, to take or bring with one, to carry off, take or bring away, remove, etc.I.Lit.A. In gen., of personal objects; constr. aliquem, ab, ex, de; in, ad: SVBIGIT. OMNE. LOVCANAM. OPSIDESQVE. ABDOVCIT (=subigit omnem Lucanam obsidesque abducit), epitaph of Scipio, 1. 1.: hominem P. Quinctii deprehendis in publico; conaris abducere, Cic. Quint. 19, 61: cohortes secum, Caes. B. C. 1, 15 med. al.: abduce me hinc ab hac, quantum potest, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 108: abductus a mari atque ab lis copiis, quas, etc.... frumento ac commeatu abstractus, Caes. B. C. 3, 78: tamquam eum, qui sit rhetori tradendus, abducendum protinus a grammaticis putem, Quint. 2, 1, 12: ut Hispanos omnes procul ab nomine Scipionis ex Hispania abduceret, Liv. 27, 20, 7: tu dux, tu comes es; tu nos abducis ab Histro. Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 119: ut collegam vi de foro abducerent, Liv. 2, 56, 15: sine certamine inde abductae legiones, id. 2, 22, 2: credo (illum) abductum in ganeum aliquo, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 5: abduxi exercitum ad infestissimam Ciliciae partem, Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 3: ipsos in lautumias abduci imperabat, id. Verr. 2, 5, 56 fin.; so, liberos eorum in servitutem, Caes. B. G. 1, 11, 3: servum extra convivium, Sen. Contr. 4, 25. —Poet. with acc. only: tollite me, Teucri; quascumque abducite terras (= in terras), Verg. A. 3, 601. —b. Of animals: donec (avem) in diversum abducat a nidis, Plin. 10, 33, 51 fin. —c. . Sometimes also of inanim. objects: clavem,
to take away
, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 8: pluteos ad alia opera, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: capita retro ab ictu,
to draw back
, Verg. A. 5, 428: togam a faucibus ac summo pectore, Quint. 11, 3, 145: aquam alicui (=deducere, defiectere),
to divert, draw off
, Dig. 39, 2, 26. —Poet.: somnos,
to take away, deprive of
, Ov. F. 5, 477.B. In partic. 1.To take with one to dine: tum me convivam solum abducebat sibi, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 17: advenientem ilico abduxi ad cenam, id. Heaut. 1, 2, 9 al.2.To take aside (in mal. part.): aliquam in cubiculum, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 7; so Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, 33; Suet. Aug. 69; Just. 21, 2 fin. al.3.To carry away forcibly, to raxish, rob: ad quem iste deduxerat Tertiam, Isidori mimi flliam, vi abductam ab Rhodio tibicine, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34; cf. id. ib. 2, 5, 31, 81; Verg. A. 7, 362: aliquam alicui (marito, etc.), Suet. Oth. 3; Dig. 47, 10, 1 al.: aliquam gremils, Verg. A. 10, 79. —So also of stolen cattle, to drive away: cujus (Geryonis) armenta liercules abduxerit, Plin. 4, 22, 36 fin.; so, abducta armenta, Ov. H. 16, 359.4. In jurid. lang.: auferre et abducere, to take and drive away (auferre of inanlmate things, abducere of living beings, as slaves, cattle), Cic. Quint. 27, 84; Dig. 21, 2, 57, 1.II.Trop.A. In gen., to lead away, separate, distinguish: animum ad se ipsum advocamus, secum esse cogimus, maximeque a corpore abducimus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31; so, aciem mentis a consuetudine oculorum, id. N. D. 2, 17: divinationem caute a conjecturis, id. Div. 2, 5, 13.B. In partic. 1.To seduce, alienate from fidelity or allegiance: legiones a Bruto, Cic. Phil. 10, 3, 6: exercitum ab illo, id. ib. 10, 4, 9: equitatum a consule, id. ib. 11, 12, 27 al.2. From a study, pursuit, duty, etc., to withdraw, draw off, hinder (syn.: avoco, averto): vos a vostris abduxi negotlis, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 1; cf.: a quo studio te abduci negotiis intellego, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5; and: abducuntur homines nonnumquam etiam ab institutis suis magnitudine pecuniae, id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, 12 (followed by ab humanitate deducere); so, aliquem a meretricio quaestu, id. Phil. 2, 18: aliquem a populorum rebus, id. Rep. 5, 2: ab isto officio incommodo, id. Lael. 2, 8 al.3.To bring down, reduce, degrade (Ciceron.): ne ars tanta...a religionis auctoritate abduceretur ad mercedem atque quaestum, Cic. Div. 1, 41, 92; so, aliquem ad hanc hominum libidinem ac licentiam, id. Verr. 2, 3, 90, 210.