[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Narro</orth>, narras, natrâre. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To shew: to tell: to reporte: to declare: to expresse: to say.</trans> <I>Tu isti narrato omnem rem ordine vt factum siet.</I> <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl> <I>Narra istuc quæso quid siet.</I> Ter. <I>Quid narras? <bibl><author>Terent.</author></bibl></I> <trans lang="en">What sayst thou<12></trans> <I>Opinor narras? Ter.</I> <trans lang="en">Say you I thinke<12></trans> <I>Nihil narras? Tere.</I> <trans lang="en">Is it nothing that thou sayest<12></trans> <I>Quas mulleres narras? Plau.</I> <trans lang="en">Of what women speakest thou<12></trans> <I>Quum de animo tuo quotidie mihi narrarer.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Nauita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator.</I> Proper. <trans lang="en">The marriner talketh of the windes.</trans> <I>Malè narrare de aliquo.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To speake ill of.</trans> <I>Casum aliquem narrare.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Fabellam narrare.</I> Hor. <trans lang="en">To tell.</trans> <I>Iucundé aliquid de aliquo narrare, Vide IVCVNDVS.</I> <I>Memoriter narrare, Vide MEMOR.</I> <I>Ordine narrare.</I> Ter. <I>Peræquè narrare, Vide PERAEQVVS.</I> <I>Pericula sua narrare.</I> Propert. <trans lang="en">To declare.</trans> <I>Singula narrare.</I> <bibl><author>Ouid.</author></bibl> <I>Stomachum narrare.</I> <bibl><author>Plin. iun.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To declare or vtter his stomacke: to speake that he thinketh.</trans> <I>Suspiciosè aliquid narrare.</I> Quint. <trans lang="en">So to tell that hee putteth men to suspect more than he saith.</trans> <I>Narrátq: vt virgo se integra etiam tum siet.</I> Ter. <I>Narra mihi, reges Armenij patricios salutare non solent? Ci.</I> <trans lang="en">Tell me, &c.</trans> <I>Narro tibi, planè relegatus mihi videor posteaquam in Phormiano sum.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">I say to thee, me thinketh. &c.</trans> <I>Narrauit antiquitas, Vide ANTIQVVS.</I> <I>Perge opera experiri, quid epistola ista narret.</I> <bibl><author>Plaut.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Goe to reade on, and try what this letter reporteth.</trans> <I>Rumor narrat.</I> Mart. <I> Narrant, pro Dicunt.</I> Plin. Solui pericula & metus narrãt. <trans lang="en">They say.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
narro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [for gnarigo (gnarigavit, Fest. p. 95) from gnarus; Sanscr. gnā, know; Gr. gignw/skw; cf.: nosco (gnosco), ignoro], to tell, relate, narrate, report, recount, set forth (syn.: memoro, nuntio, trado). I.Lit.: quid mihi istaec narras?Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 18: ego tibi ea narro quae tu melius scis, quam ipse, qui narro, Cic. Fam. 9, 6, 6: garrula pericula, Juv. 12, 82.—With acc. and inf.: mihi Philargyrus narravit, te interdum sollicitum esse vehementius, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 6: Clitarchus tibi narravit Darium ab Alexandro esse superatum, id. ib. 2, 10, 3: ne narres te sudavisse ferendo Carmina, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 16: narrare virtutem alicujus, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 20; Plin. 6, 22, 24, 84: cibos suos homini narrabimus,
set forth, explain
, id. 20 praef.: narrat, ut virgo ab se integra etiam tum siet, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 70.—Pass.: ut ita narrentur ut gestae res erunt, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 29: haec inter paucos palam secreto narrantur, id. Fam. 8, 1, 4: in comoediis res ipsa narratur, id. ib. 9, 22, 1: quae in provinciis facta narrabantur, Liv. 39, 6, 6; Quint. 3, 8, 11; 4, 2, 76; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 3; Suet. Calig. 22: rationes ... satis narratas, Tac. A. 11, 11.—With de: quā (epistulā) Crassi libertum ais tibi de meā sollicitudine macieque narrāsse, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 1: mores ejus, de quo narres, id. de Or. 2, 59, 241: de quibus nos narrabimus, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24; cf. in the foll.: male, bene narrare, to tell bad or good news: male narras de Nepotis filio, Cic. Att. 16, 14, 4: Othonem quod speras posse vinci, sane bene narras, id. ib. 13, 33, 2.—Of things: quid istaec tabellae narrant?Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 29: si res publica tibi narrare posset, quomodo sese haberet, Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 1: cum ejus oratio de animo tuo, de sermonibus, quos de me haberes cotidie, mihi narraret, id. ib. 3, 1, 1: narratur and narrant, it is said, they say: Paridis propter narratur amorem Graecia Barbariae lento collisa duello, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 6; Ov. H. 6, 19: versiculos in me narratur scribere Cinna, Mart. 3, 9, 1; but narratur with acc. and inf. is rare: nunc Chamavos et Angrivarios immigrāsse narratur, Tac. G. 33 init.: eoque terrore aves tunc siluisse narratur, Plin. 35, 11, 28, 121 (Jan. narrantque; cf. Zumpt, Gram. 607): narrant, et in Ponto Caecian in se trahere nubes, Plin. 2, 47, 48, 126; 2, 106, 110, 236; 32, 7, 24, 75 et saep.: narror, narraris = narratur de me, de te, to be the subject of talk, it is said of me, thee, etc.: rideor ubique, narror, ostendor, Quint. Decl. 14, 12 init.: dulcis in Elysio narraris fabula campi, Mart. 12, 52, 5: Sibi narrare, to inform one's self, learn: Cape has tabellas; tute hinc narrato tibi, quae me miseria contabefecit, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 18.—II.Transf., in gen., to say, speak, tell: narra, quid est, quid ait?Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 67: ego quid narres nescio, Ter. And. 3, 1, 19; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 54: non possum satis narrare quos ludos praebueris intus, id. Eun. 5, 7, 9: quantum distet ab Inacho Codrus, Hor. C. 3, 19, 3.— Hence, narro tibi, I tell you, I assure you, in fact, seriously, a form of asseveration: narro tibi: plane relegatus mihi videor, postea quam in Formiano sum, Cic. Att. 2, 11, 1: narro tibi, haec loca venusta sunt, abdita certe, id. ib. 15, 16, B; 15, 21, 1: navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
talks
, Prop. 2, 1, 43: ne res per quemquam narraretur, Just. 1, 9, 19.—B. Esp., to dedicate: librum alicui, Plin. praef. 1.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: narrātum, i, n., that which is told or narrated: hoc quoque, Tiresia, praeter narrata petenti Responde, Hor. S. 2, 5, 1.