To bring or driue to: to compell or force one to doe a thing: to prature or stirre: to bynde by othe or promise: to fasten or ioyne to: to thrust in: to driue in, as a wedge, nayle, &c. Adigere naues. Tacit. To bring the shippes to. Vulnus per galeam adegit. Tacit. He wounded him through his helmer. Adigere ensem in pectus. Ouid. To thrust a sworde into. Adigere aliquem advmbras infernas. Virg. Adigo cum infinitiuo. Virg. Hæc limina tendere adegit. Constrayned: forced. Adigere, per metaphoram. Ter. Tu homo adiges me ad insaniam. Thou wilt make me madde. Adigere quempiam arbitrum pro socio. Cic. To constraine one to come and pleade before an arbitrour. Adigere sacramento, vel iureiurando, fiue ad iusiurandum. Cæsar. Liuius. To force one to sweare after a prescript fashion. Sacramento alicuius adigere legiones. Tacit. To cause them to be sworne, or take an othe to one. Sacramento adactus pro aliquo. Tac. Put to an othe. Adigere iusiurandum, sine præpositione. Liu. Adigere in verba alicuius. Plin iun. To make one sweare to be obedient and do that one shall conimaunde him. In sua & Pompeij verba per iusiurandum adigebat Cesar. He caused them to sweare and take an othe, to be obedient to him and Pompel. Adigi iureiurando in verba principis. To be sworne, to be obedient and true vnto a prince. Adigere, pro Agere: vt adrgere oues. Plaut. To driue.

I. Lit., of cattle (cf. ago, I.: abigo, abigeus, etc.): quis has huc ovīs adegit? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 3: lactantes vitulos ad matres, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 16: pecore e longinquioribus vicis adacto, Caes. B. G. 7, 17: equos per publicum, Suet. Galb. 19. —Of persons: mox noctu te adiget horsum insomnia, Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 13: aliquem fulmine ad umbras, Verg. A. 4, 25: quis deus Italiam vos adegit? id. ib. 9, 601.—Hence: adigere aliquem arbitrum (ad arbitrum), to compel one to come before an arbiter (like adigere (ad) jus jurandum; v. infra): finibus regundis adigere arbitrum non possis, Cic. Top. 10, 43; so id. Off. 3, 16, 66; id. Rosc. Com. 9, 25.—Of things: classem e Ponto Byzantium adigi jusserat, Tac. H. 2, 83: ceteras navium per fossas, id. A. 11, 18, and absol.: dum adiguntur naves, i. e. in mare impelluntur, id. Ann. 2, 7: tigna fistucis, to drive in by rammers, Caes. B. G. 4, 17.—Esp. often of weapons, to drive home, plunge, thrust, to send to a place: ut felum adigi non posset, Caes. B. G. 3, 51; cf. id. B. G. 4, 23; so Verg. A. 9, 431; Ov. M. 6, 271: hastae ardentes adactae, Tac. H. 4, 23: ferrum jugulo, Suet. Ner. 49: cf. Liv. 27, 49: per obscena ferrum, Suet. Calig. 58: ferrum in viscera, Sil. 7, 626.— And from the weapons transf. to the wound, to inflict (in the poets and Tac.): alte vulnus adactum, Verg. A. 10, 850: ubi vulnus Varo adactum, Tac. A. 1, 61: vulnus per galeam adegit, id. ib. 6, 35.

II. Fig.

A. To drive, urge, or bring one to a situation, to a state of mind, or to an act (esp. against his will): tu, homo, adigis me ad insaniam, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 31: adigit ita Postumia, Cic. Att. 10, 9: acri cupidine adigi, Tac. A. 15, 33: ad mortem, id. ib. 12, 22.—Poet. with the subj. without ut: quae vis vim mihi afferam ipsa adigit, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 19.—With the inf.: vertere morsus exiguam in Cererem penuria adegit edendi, Verg. A. 7, 114; cf. 6, 696; so Ov. Am. 3, 6, 3; Sil. 2, 472; Stat. Th. 4, 531.— So also: tres liburnicas adactis per vim gubernatoribus ascendere, Tac. Agr. 28; so id. A. 4, 45; 11, 10; id. H. 4, 15.—

B. Adigere aliquem ad jus jurandum, jus jurandum, or jure jurando, or sacramento (abl.), t. t., to put one on oath, to cause one to take oath, to swear one (from the time of Livy oftener with abl.; so Tac.. Just., Flor.; cf. on this point Cortius ad Sall. C. 22; Held ad Caes. B. C. 1, 76; Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 67; Rudd. II. p. 328, no. 16): omnibus jus jurandum adactis, Caes. B. G. 7, 67: cum ad jus jurandum populares sceleris sui adigeret, Sall. C. 22: provinciam omnem in sua et Pompeii verba jus jurandum adigebat, Caes. B. C. 2, 18: censores ita jus jurandum adigebant, Liv. 43, 15 fin.; so Gell. 4, 20; 7, 18: populum jure jurando adegit, Liv. 2, 1: omnibus junioribus jure jurando adactis, id. 6, 33; so 6, 38; 7, 9, 11 al.; Tac. H. 1, 55; ib. 76; Just. 22, 4, 5; 8, 4, 11; Flor. 3, 1, 13.—Hence ellipt.: in verba adigere, for in verba jus jurandum adigere in Tac. and Suet. (cf. the passage cited above, Caes. B. C. 2, 18): neque se neque quemquam Batavum in verba Galliarum adegit, Tac. H. 4, 61: provincia Narbon. in verba Vitellii adacta, id. ib. 2, 14; so 4, 59; Suet. Vesp. 6.— And finally quite absol.: adigere (sc. jure jurando, sacramento), to bind by an oath: magno cum assensu auditus ... universos adigit, Tac. H. 4, 15.—

C. Poet. = subigere, to subject: bisque jugo Rhenum, bis adactum legibus Istrum, Stat. Th. 1, 19: in faciem prorae pinus adacta novae, brought into the form of a ship, Prop. 4, 22, 14.!*? In Caes. B. C. 2, 1: mare quod adigit ad ostium Rhodani, we have a false reading, for which Nipperdey restored adjacet.