To take: to take vpon him: to hyre: to borow: to consiune: to spend or bestow on one: to receine: to choose: to take faice and softly. A me argentum sumito. Terent. Take, &c. In manum, vel manu sumere. Plin. iun. Cic. Sumere è medio. Scæuola. Aqua marina qumlongissimè littore de pelago sumenda est. Col. Sumpta est eò nauis. Cice. A thip was taken to saile thither. Sumere sibi aliquid Cic. To take somewhat vpon him. Non mihi tantum sumo. Ci. I do not take so much vpõ me: I do not attribute so much to my selfe. Non mihi sumo, vt plus ipse prospiciã, quãm te videre aut intelligere mihi persuaserim. Cic. I doe not attribute so much to my selfe, &c. Hoc mihi sumpsi, vt id re peterem. Cic. I was so bolde as to destre that of you. Vide quid mihi sumpserim. Cicer. Mihi pro meo iure sumo. Cic. I attribute this much to my selfe of good right. Tantum tibi sumito pro Capitone apud Cæsarem, quantum, &c. Cic. Sumere alicunde. Terent. To borow of some other. Sumere in re aliqua. Plau. To spend or bestow on a thing. Meminero me non sumpsisse quem accusarem, sed recepisse quos defenderem. Ci. I wil remember that I haue not chosen one to accuse, &c. Sumat aliquem ex populo. Salust. Let him take or choose one of the common people. Aliquem iudicem sumere. Brutus Ciceroni. Animum sumere. Ouid. To take heart or courage. Aquam sumere è fluuio. Ouid. Sumere aquam è puteo. Plaut. To drawe or take water out of a well. Arbitrum sumerc. Cicero. To take an vmper or indifferent iudge. Ex omni copia, plurima argumenta sumuotur. Cic. Arma sumere. Cic. Authoritatem sibi sumere. Cæs. Bellum sumere. Plin. To enterprise or beginne a warre. Bellum sponte sumebant. Tac. They beganne warte of theyr owne motion. Bellum sumere pro aliquo. Ouid. Beneficium sumere. Plaut. To receiue a good turne. Cibum sumere. Plin. To eate meate. Confidentiam sumere. Plaut. To take a confidence and truste: to ware hardie. Consilia sumere in aliquam rem. Plin. iun. To take counsaile for the doing of a thing. Consilia noua sumere. Horat. Curam sumere. Plin. iun. To be carefull for. Diem sumere. Cæs. Cic. To take a day to do a thing. Diem hilarem sumere. Terent. To spend a day merlly. Exempla ab aliquo sumere. Cic. Exordia sumere. Virg. To beginne. Fastus sumuntur ab imagine speculi. Ouid. Hostes sumere. Ouid. Ientaculum sumere. Mart. To take his breakefaste. Imaginem alicuius sumere. Plan. To put on ones apparel and be like him. In argumentum aliquid sumere. Quint. To take as an argument. Sumitur in conscientiam Eudemus medicus. Taci. In optionem sumere. Plau. Inimicitias sumere. Cic. Initium sumere. Cic. To beginne. Iras nouas sumpsit. Ouid. Iudicem sumere de controuersia. Brutus ad Ciceronem. To take one as indge in a controuersie. Iudicium sibi sumere. Cæsar, To take vppon him to indge of a matter. Laborem sumere. Cæs. To take paine. Laudem sumere crimine. Ouid. Literas commendatitias ad aliquem sumere ab altero. Ci. To receiue letters of commendation from a man to an other. Mutuum sumere. Plaut. To borow. Mutuas pecunias sumere. Idem. Plaut. To borow money. Nomen aliud sumere. Ouid. Obsequium animo sumere. Plaut. To liue at his owne fantasie and pleasure. Operam sumere ad rem aliquam. Plaut. To bestow paines to do a thing. Operam in re aliqua sumere. Idem. Terent. Operam sumere. Plau. To labout in vaine: to loose his labor. Operam frustr sumere. Idem. Terent. Otium sibi sumere. Cic. Partes alicuius sumere. Cæs. To take vpon him, &c. Imperatorias partes sibi sumere. Cæsar. To take vpon him the office of a capitaine. Quas partes ipse mihi sumpseram, eas præoccupauit oratio tua. Cic. Your oration hath preuented that I had thoughtta intreate of. PericulÛ pauci sumpsere. Tac. Few aduentured the danger. Personam magistri sumere. Pli. iun. To take vpon him the state of a maister. Pœnas sumere. Virg. To pnnish. Principium sumere re aliqua. Plin. To begin at, &c. Pro certo sumere. Cic. Res non concessas sumere. Cicer. To presuppose things not grannted. Simile sibi sumere Plaut. To take a paterne. Socerum sumere. Ouid. Spatium ad cogitandum sumere. Cicer. To take leysure to muse on a thing. Speciem hominis sumit infans in aluo. Ouid. Spiritus sibi sumere, & arrogantiam. Cæsar. To ware of hautie courage and proud minde. Superbiam sumere. Horat. Sumere supplicium. Plaut. To punishe. Supplicium de aliquo sumere. Idem. Cic. Tempus sumere ad rem aliquam. Cice. To take leysure to do a thing. Testimonium sumere in res aliquas. Cice. To take witnesses for the proofe of matters. Togam virilem sumere Liu. Vestis mihi sumitur. Ouid. I take a garment. Vires sumunt incendia. Horar. Vitam sumere, Horat. Quomodo sumis, vt siquid cui simile esse possit, sequatur vt etiam difficulter internosci possit? Cic. How conclude you, or do you inferre, &c.

I. In gen.: auferere, non abibis, si ego fustem sumpsero, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 202: laciniam, id. Merc. 1, 2, 16: si hoc digitulis duobus sumebas primoribus, id. Bacch. 4, 4, 24: si mutuas non potero, certum'st sumam foenore, id. As. 1, 3, 95: postremo a me argentum quanti est sumito, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 20: locum ( = capere), Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 9: legem in manus, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15: unum quodque vas in manus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, 63: Epicurum et Metrodorum non fere praeter suos quisquam in manus sumit, id. Tusc. 2, 3, 8: orationes in manus, Quint. 10, 1, 22: litteras ad te a M. Lepido consule quasi commendaticias sumpsimus, have taken, provided ourselves with, Cic. Fam. 13, 26, 3: spatium ad vehicula comportanda, Liv. 2, 4: spatium ad colloquendum, id. 8, 18: ferrum ad aliquem interficiendum, id. 40, 11, 10: Tusculi ante quam Romae sumpta sunt arma, id. 3, 19, 8: pro conjuge ferrum, Ov. H. 15 (16), 371: arma, Quint. 5, 10, 71: sume venenum, id. 8, 5, 23; Nep. Them. 10, 3; id. Hann. 12, 5: partem Falerni, Hor. C. 1, 27, 9: cyathos, id. ib. 3, 8, 13: panem perfusam aquā frigidā, Suet. Aug. 77: potiunculam, id. Dom. 21: antidotum, id. Calig. 23: pomum de lance, Ov. P. 3, 5, 20: cibum, Nep. Att. 21; Petr. 111: soporem, Nep. Dion, 2, 5: sumptā virili togā, put on, Cic. Lael. 1, 1: virilem togam, Suet. Aug. 8; 94 med.; id. Tib. 7; id. Galb. 4; Val. Max. 5, 4, 4: calceos et vestimenta, Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18: regium ornatum, Nep. Eum. 13, 3: latum clavum (opp. deponere bracas), Poët. ap. Suet. Caes. 80: diadema, Suet. Calig. 22: annulos ferreos (opp. deponere), id. Aug. 100: gausapa, Ov. A. A. 2, 300: alas pedibus virgamque manu tegumenque capillis, id. M. 1, 672: perventum est eo, quo sumpta navis est, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89: pecuniam mutuam, id. Fl. 20, 46; Sall. C. 24, 2: aurum mutuum, Suet. Caes. 51.—Of time: diem ad deliberandum, Caes. B. G. 1, 7: tempus cibi quietisque, Liv. 32, 11.—

B. Trop.

1. In gen.: calorem animo, Lucr. 3, 288: obsequium animo, i. e. animo obsequi, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 8: Ariovistus tantos sibi spiritus, tantam arrogantiam sumpserat, ut, etc., assumed, Caes. B. G. 1, 33; cf.: sumpsi animum, I took courage, Ov. F. 1, 147: animos serpentis, id. M. 3, 545: vigorem, id. P. 3, 4, 31: cum spiritus plebs sumpsisset, Liv. 4, 54, 8: certamine animi adversus eum sumpto, id. 37, 10, 2: exempla, Cic. Lael. 11, 38: sumptis inimicitiis, susceptā causā, etc., taken upon one's self, assumed, id. Vatin. 11, 28: omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrime desinere, to be undertaken, entered upon, begun, Sall. J. 83, 1; so, bellum cum aliquo, Liv. 1, 42, 2; 36, 2, 3. —

2. Esp.: supplicium sumere, to exact satisfaction, inflict punishment, rarely absol.: supplici sibi sumat, quod volt ipse, ob hanc injuriam, Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 31: satis sumpsimus jam supplici, id. Pers. 5, 2, 72: graviore sententiā pronuntiatā more majorum supplicium sumpsit, Caes. B. G. 6, 44.—Usu. de aliquo: potuisse hunc de illā supplicium sumere, Cic. Inv. 2, 27, 82: tum homo nefarius de homine nobili virgis supplicium crudelissime sumeret, id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, 91: supplicium de matre sumpsisse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 66; Liv. 39, 29; cf. supplicium.—Rarely ex aliquo, Liv. 23, 3, 1.— Post-class. also ab aliquo, Val. Max. 4, 1, ext. 1; 5, 1, ext. 2.—Rarely poenam sumere ( = capere): pro maleficio poenam sumi oportere, Cic. Inv. 2, 36, 108: merentis poenas, Verg. A. 2, 586: poenam scelerato ex sanguine, id. ib. 12, 949; cf. id. ib. 6, 501.—

II. In partic.

A. To take (by choice), to choose, select: philosophiae studium, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8: hoc sumo ( = suscipio), hoc mihi deposco, id. Verr. 1, 12, 36: nos Capuam sumpsimus, id. Fam. 16, 11, 3: sumat aliquem ex populo monitorem officii sui, Sall. J. 85, 10: enitimini, ne ego meliores liberos sumpsisse videar quam genuisse, i. e. to have adopted, id. ib. 10, 8: sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus, Hor. A. P. 38: quis te mala sumere cogit? Aut quis deceptum ponere sumpta velit? Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 69 sq.: disceptatorem, Liv. 1, 50: quod tres patricios magistratus nobilitas sibi sumpsisset, id. 7, 1: Miltiadem sibi imperatorem, Nep. Milt. 1, 3.—Poet., with inf.: quem virum aut heroa lyrā vel acri Tibiā sumis celebrare, Clio? Hor. C. 1, 12, 2: quis sibi res gestas Augusti scribere sumit? id. Ep. 1, 3, 7.—

B. To take as one's own, to assume, claim, arrogate, appropriate to one's self (syn.: ascisco, assumo, arrogo): quamquam mihi non sumo tantum neque arrogo, ut, etc., Cic. Planc. 1, 3: sed mihi non sumo, ut meum consilium valere debuerit, id. Att. 8, 11 D, 6: sumpsi hoc mihi pro tuā in me observantiā, ut, etc., id. Fam. 13, 50, 1: tantum tibi sumito pro Capitone apud Caesarem, quantum, etc., id. ib. 13, 29, 6: sibi imperatorias partes, Caes. B. C. 3, 51: nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae, Hor. C. 3, 2, 19: vultus modo sumit acerbos, Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 17: mores antiquos, Liv. 3, 68: proelio sumpta Thessalia est, conquered, Flor. 4, 2, 43.—

C. To take, get, acquire, receive: distat sumasne pudenter an rapias, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44: laudemque a crimine sumit, Ov. M. 6, 474: sumpto rigore, id. ib. 10, 139: vel tua me Sestus vel te mea sumit Abydos, id. H. 17 (18), 127. —

D. To take for some purpose, i. e. to use, apply, employ, spend, consume (syn. insumo): in malā uxore atque inimico si quid sumas, sumptus est: In bono hospite atque amico quaestus est, quod sumitur, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 79 sq.: minus hercle in hisce rebus sumptum est sex minis, id. Trin. 2, 4, 9 and 12: frustra operam, opinor, sumo, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 15: frustra laborem, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: cui rei opus est, ei hilarem hunc sumamus diem, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 68: videtis hos quasi sumptos dies ad labefactandam illius dignitatem, Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 44: sumpseris tibi familiaritatem nostram ad ornamentum, Plin. Ep. 6, 18, 2. —Poet.: curis sumptus, consumed, worn out, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 21, 42 (Trag. Fr. Inc. 8 Rib.).—

E. To undertake, begin, enter upon: bellum, Liv. 1, 42; Flor. 4, 12, 24: bellis ponendis sumendisque, Liv. 8, 4: haec maxime belli ratio sumendi fuerat, id. 38, 19: duellum cum aliquo, id. 36, 2: proelia, Suet. Caes. 60; Tac. H. 2, 45: in hos expeditionem, Flor. 4, 12, 6: non mandata expeditio, sed sumpta est, id. 4, 12, 48.—Poet.: prima fide vocisque ratae temptamina sumpsit Liriope, Ov. M. 3, 341.—

F. In an oration, disputation, etc.

1. To take for certain or for granted, to assume, maintain, suppose, affirm: alterutrum fatearis enim sumasque necesse'st, Lucr. 1, 974: nec solum ea sumitis ad concludendum, quae ab omnibus concedantur, sed ea sumitis, quibus concessis, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 50, 104: aliquid pro certo, id. ib.—With inf.-clause: beatos esse deos sumpsisti, Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 89: pro non dubio legati sumebant, quae Antiochi fuerunt, Eumenem aequius esse quam me habere, Liv. 39, 28, 5.—

2. To make, take a beginning, etc. (late Lat.): ab uno signo sumamus exordium, Macr. Somn. Scip. 18: ab illā quaestione principium sumere, Lact. 1, 2: quin fictio a capite sumat exordium, id. Opif. Dei, 12, 7.—

3. To take, bring forward, cite, mention as a proof, an instance, etc. (cf. profero): homines notos sumere odiosum est, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 47: unum hoc sumo, id. ib. 34, 97: sumam annum tertium, id. Verr. 2, 3, 44, 104: ex istis tuis sumam aliquem, id. Cael. 15, 36: quid quisquam potest ex omni memoriā sumere illustrius? id. Sest. 12, 27: ab oratore aut poëtā probato sumptum ponere exemplum, Auct. Her. 4, 1, 1.—

G. To take as a purchase, to buy, purchase: quanti ego genus omnino signorum non aestimo, tanti ista quattuor aut quinque sumpsisti, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2: decumas agri Leontini, id. Verr. 2, 3, 64, 149: quae parvo sumi nequeunt, obsonia captas, Hor. S. 2, 7, 106.—

H. Aliquam, to use, enjoy, etc., in mal. part., Mart. 10, 81, 2: mille licet sumant, Ov. A. A. 3, 90; Auct. Priap. 5; cf. gaudia, Nemes. Ecl. 4, 59: aliquid, Petr. 100.—

K. To take, fascinate, charm: simul conspexerit juvenem, venustate ejus sumitur, App. M. 2, p. 116, 40.