Subduco, subdûcis, pen. prod subduxi, subductum, subdúcere. Iuuenal. To take away: to plucke or draw away: to remoue: to steale away priuily: to conuay away priuilye: to pluck back: to draw backe: to deceine: to steale: to leade vp: to draw up.Tempus est subducere hinc me.Plaut.It is time to get mee hence.Aurum subducitur rerræ.Ouid.Golde is digged out of the earth.Subducere cibum athletæ.Cic.To withdraw from a thampion some part of his meate, not to feede so plentisully.Colla subducere oneti.Ouid.To pull his neck from the burthen.Subducere lac agnis. Virgil. To steale the milke from the Lambes.Memoriam tempus interpositum subduxit. Sen. The space betweene made them to forget.Vires subducere alicui.Ouid.Producere & subducere, contraria.Cic.Morti subducere aliquem. Clau. To deliuer one from danger of death.Pugnæ subducere aliquem.Virg.To conuey one out of the battaile.Nimbo se subducere.Ouid.Subducere se de vel ex aliqua societate vel loco. Teren. Cic.To go or conuey himselfe out of, &c.Terra se pedibus raptim subducit. Lucret. The earth wente sodainly from vnder their feete.Subducta ex prælio ala.Liu.Conueyed out of, &c. Qu se subducere colles incipiunt.Virg.There as the hils begin to ware lower. Subducere. Mart. To steale: to take or conuay awaye priuily.Subducere furto.Liu.Subducere pallium lapsum cubito. Mart. Priuily and by stealth to take up & conuay away a robe faine away from ones arme. Subducere.Plin. iun.To leade up: to conuey vp: to draw vp.Subducere copias in collem satis arduum.Liu.to bring the host vp a stiepe hill.Subducere naues.Virg.To draw or bring shippes to lande.Puppes subductæ sicco littore.Virg.Subducere sursum è puteo.Plaut.To draw vp out of a wel.Subducere supercilia. Seneca. To lifte vp the browes: to frowne.Vultu subducto procedere. Proper. To go forth with a so wer and frowning countenaunce.Subducere animam. Cato. to hold back his breath: to draw back, &c.Subducere succum aliquem naribus. Pli. To draw vp iuyce at the nosethrils.Subducere áliquem.Plaut.To deceiue one. Subducere aliquem dictis. Ter. With faice wordes to beguile. Subducere cum hoc nomine RATIO, significat computare, quod & inire, & habere, & facere rationem dicim. Plaut.to calt an account: to recken.Subducta ratione esse ad vitam, Vide RATIO.Inita & subducta ratione scelera meditari. Ci. Euen of purpofe and of set minde to go about mischiefe, hauing cast his peny worths before.Subducere calculos voluptatum. Ci. to cast how much pleasure they shall haue.Numerum stellarum subducere. Catull. To recken or number the starres.Subducere summam.Cic.To cast a summe in an accounte or reckning. Subducere, non adiecto nomine RATIO. Ci. to count: to recken: to cast an account. Subducere fundamenta alicuius rei.Cic.To pul away the foundations of a thing. Subductum omnibus ventis ædificium. Plin. the house is set for all maner of winds.
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sub-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 (perf. sync. subduxti, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 25; inf. subduxe, Poët. ap. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6), v. a., to draw from under or from below.I. Without the idea of removal. A. In gen., to draw or pull up; to lift up, raise (rare): brassicam ad nasum admoveto: ita subducito susum animam, quam plurimum poteris, Cato, R. R. 157, 15: aliquid sursum, Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 4: cataractam funibus, Liv. 27, 28, 10: subductis (tunicis) usque ad inguen, pulled up (opp. demissis), Hor. S. 1, 2, 26: supercilia, Turp. ap. Non. 399, 30; Varr. ib. 399, 33; Sen. Ep. 48, 5; id. Ben. 1, 1, 6 al.; cf.: subducto voltu, Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 9.—B. In partic., naut. t. t., to draw or haul up on land (a ship out of the water; class. and freq.): navim in pulvinarium, Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 27: longas naves in aridum, Caes. B. G. 4, 29: navis subducta in terrā, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 50: naves regiae in campo Martio subductae sunt, Liv. 45, 42: ab classe, quae Corcyrae subducta erat, id. 31, 22: classis, quae subducta esset ad Gytheum, Cic. Off. 3, 11, 49; so, naves, Caes. B. G. 5, 11; id. B. C. 2, 23; 3, 23fin.; Liv. 27, 17, 6; 37, 10; 42, 27: classem, id. 45, 2 al.; Vulg. Luc. 5, 11.—II. With the idea of removal implied, to draw away from among; to take away, lead away, carry off; to withdraw, remove, etc. (class.; syn. subtraho). A. In gen.: ubi bullabit vinum, ignem subducito, Cato, R. R. 105, 1: lapides ex turri, Caes. B. C. 2, 11: rerum fundamenta, Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 42: conjux fidum capiti subduxerat ensem, Verg. A. 6, 524: subduc cibum unum diem athletae, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40: et sucus pecori et lac subducitur agnis, Verg. E. 3, 6: pugnae Turnum, id. A. 10, 615; so, id. ib. 10, 50: aliquem manibus Graium, id. ib. 10, 81: aliquem praesenti periculo, Vell. 2, 72, 5: se pedibus (terra), Lucr. 1, 1106: se ab ipso Vulnere (fera), Ov. M. 7, 781 et saep. —2. Esp. (a).To purge, evacuate: quoniam is cibus subduceret sensim alvum, Gell. 4, 11, 4; so, alvum, Cels. 3, 4.—(b). Vela celeriter, to take in, furl, Auct. B. Alex. 45, 3: rem de judicio, Dig. 10, 2, 14.—B.Milit. t. t., to draw off forces from one position to another (class.): cohortes aliquot subductas ex dextro cornu post aciem circumducit, Liv. 27, 48: Numidas ex mediā acie, id. 22, 48: triarios ex postremā acie, id. 44, 37: subductis ordinibus, id. 36, 18; cf. id. 40, 30: ab his centuriones omnes lectos et evocatos ... in primam aciem subducit, Sall. C. 59, 3: copias in proximum collem subducit, Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 22: milites pleno gradu in collem, Sall. J. 98, 4: agmen in aequiorem locum, Liv. 7, 34.—C. With the idea of stealth or secrecy. 1.To take away secretly or by stealth, to steal, hide: Atreus quam (pecudem auream) sibi Thyestem subduxe queritur, Poët. ap. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6: alicui anulum, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 81: subducta viatica plorat, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 54: post ignem aethereā domo Subductum, id. C. 1, 3, 30: nec mihi rivalis subducit certos amores, Prop. 1, 8, 45: saccularii partem subducunt, partem subtrahunt, Dig. 47, 11, 7: obsides furto, Liv. 9, 11: cubiculum subductum omnibus ventis,
secured against
, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 10.—2. Esp., with se, me, etc., to take one's self away by stealth, withdraw, steal away: tempus est subducere hinc me, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 62: clam te subduxti mihi, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 25: de circulo se subduxit, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 1: modo se subducere ab ipso Vulnere visa fera est, Ov. M. 7, 781: se clam, Nep. Alcib. 4, 4; Auct. B. Afr. 93, 1: at nos quaerimus illa (verba), tamquam lateant semper seseque subducant, Quint. 8, prooem. 21.—Poet.: neve terra se pedibus subducat, Lucr. 1, 1106: quā se subducere colles Incipiunt, i. e.
to slope down gradually
, Verg. E. 9, 7; cf. mid.: fons subducitur, i. e.
loses itself
, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 39.—III.Trop.1. Rationem, to draw up, cast up, reckon, compute, calculate, or balance an account (by subtracting one set of items from another; class.; esp. freq. in Cic.): subduxi ratiunculam, Quantum aeris mihi sit, quantumque alieni siet, Plaut. Curc. 3, 1; cf.: intus subducam ratiunculam, quantillum argenti mi siet, id. Capt. 1, 2, 89: subducamus summam, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11; cf.: assidunt, subducunt: ad numum convenit, id. ib. 5, 21, 12.—2. In gen.: rationem, to deliberate, calculate: rationibus subductis summam feci cogitationum mearum, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 10: Medea et Atreus ... initā subductāque ratione nefaria scelera meditantes, id. N. D. 3, 29, 71; cf.: ineundis subducendisque rationibus, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 399, 16; for which also, calculis subductis, id. Fin. 2, 19, 60: bene subductā ratione, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 1: hoc quid intersit, si tuos digitos novi, certe habes subductum, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 31. —Hence, subductus, a, um, P. a.A. (Acc. to I. A.) Raised, elevated, upturned: quod vituperones suos subducti supercilii carptores appellavit (Laevius), Gell. 19, 7, 16.—B. (Acc. to II. A. 1.) Withdrawn, removed, remote, = remotus (post-Aug. and very rare): terra subductior, Mart. Cap. 6, 591.