[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Accio</orth>, accis accíni, accitum, pen. prod. accire: vulgò dicimus. Mutere quærere, vel mittere ad quærendum. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To call to: to send for one to come.</trans> <I>Ex loco aliquo accire.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I>Filio doctorem accire.</I> <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To sende for an instructour or master from a straunge place.</trans> <I>Accire in regnum.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To cause one to come and take the kingdome vpon him.</trans> <I>Ni voluptatern acciret.</I> <trans lang="en">Vnlesse it brought a pleasure with it.</trans> <I>Accire peregrè</I>, Vide PEREGRINVS.</foreign> <I>Accire properis literis.</I> <bibl><author>Tacit.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To send for hastily.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ac-cĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a., to call or summon, to fetch (rare but class.). I.Lit.: cujus vos tumulti causā accicrim, Att. ap. Non. 484, 7 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 199): horriferis accibant vocibus Orcum, Lucr. 5, 996: tu invita mulieres, ego accivero pueros, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; 13, 48, 1; id. de Or. 3, 35, 141; Sall. J. 108; Liv. 2, 6; Tac. A. 1, 5 al. —II. Fig.: accire mortem,
to kill one's self
, Vell. 2, 38 fin.; Flor. 4, 2, 71: scientiam artemque haruspicum accibam, Tac. H. 2, 3; cf.: accitis quae usquam egregia, id. A. 3, 27; and: patrios mores funditus everti per accitam lasciviam, i. e.
borrowed
, id. ib. 14, 20 (but in Cic. Fin. 5, 31, 93, the read. acciret is very doubtful; v. Madv. a. h. l.; Klotz reads faceret; B. and K., crearet.).
Attĭus or Accĭus (both forms are equally attested; Attius predominated under the empire, and the Greeks always wrote *)/attios. Teuffel), ii, m., = *)/attios, a Roman proper name.I. L. Attius, a distinguished Roman poet of the ante-class. per., younger than Pacuvius, and his rival in tragedy and comedy. Of his poems a considerable number of fragments yet remain; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. pp. 44 and 45; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 49, and Schmid ad Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 56.—Hence, B. Attĭānus (Acc-), a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Attius: versus, Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 4: Attianum illud: nihil credo auguribus, Gell. 14, 1, 34.—II. Attius Navius, a soothsayer, who, in the presence and at the bidding of Tarquinius Priscus, cut in pieces a stone with a razor, Liv. 1, 36; Val. Max. 1, 4, n. 1; Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 sqq.; 2, 38, 80.—III. P. Attius Varus, a prœtor in Africa at the time of the civil war between Cœsar and Pompey, Caes. B. C. 1, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 13.—Hence, B. Attĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Attius: milites, Caes. B. C. 1, 13: legiones, Cic. Att. 7, 15 and 20.—IV. T. Attius, an orator of Pisaurum, in the time of Cicero, Cic. Clu. 23.