Adduco, adducis, pen. prod. adduxi, adductum, addúcere. Cic.To bring to: to bring forth: to drawe or plucke togsther: to bend or drawe a bowe, sling, or any other engine: to owe or perswade.Adducere intrò in ædes.Plaut.Adducere ad prandium.Plaut.Adduxi eum ad cœnam.Terent.Adducere ad prandium ad se.Plaut.To bring to dinner to his house.Puero nutricem adduxit.Terent.A nurse for the chslde.Adducere alicui anre oculos.Terent.Illum huc corm adducam.Terent.Adducere ante oculos corm.Terent.Adducere in conspectum populi.Liu.Adducere domum. Plaur. Adducito me seruitum tibi.Plaut. Adducere hominem ad, siue in rem aliquam.To induce, moue or perswade to auy purpose.Adducere aliquÊ ad arbitrium ostrÛ. Cic.To induce or perswade one to follow our pleasure: or to doe after our will.Adducere ad authoritatem nostram.Cic.To make or cause one to obey our authoritie.Adducere ad conditionem.Cic.To make one knowe or vnderstand.Addauere ad cõcordiam. Ci. To pacisie: to bring to concord.Adducere ad conditionem aliquam.Cic.To peswade one to agree or condiscend to a condstion.Adducere ad consuetudinem.Cic.To accustome.In eam se consuetudinem adduxerunt. Cæs. They brought them selues to such a custome: or so accustomed, &c.Adducere in crimen, Vide CRIMN. Adduci ad dubitationem. Plin. To be in doubt.Adducere in dubitationem.Cic.To bring in doubt.Adduci in dubium.Liu.To be in doubt.Adducere in expectationem.Cic.To rause to looke for.Adducere ad facinus.Cic.To perswade to doe.Adducere ad vel in sletum.Cic.To cause to weepe.Ad indignationem, ad iracundiam. Author ad Herennium. To moue to anger or great displeasure.Adducere ad in telligendum.Cic.To make one vnderstand.Adducere in metum.Liu.To put in feare.Ad misericordiam. Ter. To mooue vnto pitie or compassion.Adducere in necessitatem.Liu. Me in eam necessitatem adduxisti, vt, &c. Thou broughtest me into that necessitie.Adducere in negligentiam. Hirt. To make negligent.In eam opinionem rem adduxerunt, vt Pompeius cupere videatur.Cic.They brought the matter into this suspertion.Adductus in eam opinionem.Cic.So perswaded.Adducere aliquem in nostram sententiam.Liu.Adducere ad vel in seruitutem.Cic.To bring into bondage.Adduci in sermonem.Cic.To be euill spoken of: to be yll talked of.Adducere in solicitudinem.Cic.To make carefull.In cam spem adducimur, vt, &c.Cic.We be in this hope.Adduci in suspicionem.Cic.To be suspected.Adducere ad veritatem.Cic. Quis non intelligit Canachi signa rigidiora esse, qum vt imitentur veritatem? Calamidis dura illa quidem sed tamen molliora, qum Canachi. Nondum Myonis satis ad veritatem adducta, iam tamen quæ non dubites pulchra dicere. To eramine according to the rule of trush.Adducere in voluntatem.Cic.To induce one to be willing to doe a thing. Addncere rem aliquam ad vtilitatem. Var. To make to serue his turne or vse.Adducere in certamen rem aliquam.Cic.To bring in contention.Adducere in controuevsiam.Cic.Rem in eum locum adduxit, vt diceret, &c.Cic.He brought the matter to that state, &c.Adducta vita in extremÛ. Tac. Brought into ertreame daÛger.Adducta res in fastidium. Plin. Made lothsome: brought in contempt, or disdaine. Adducere aliquid in honorem.Cic.To bring in estimation or honour: to make esteemed. Adducere aliquem in inuidiam.Cic.To bring in hatred. Adducere hominem, vel rem aliquam, ad vel in ius, siue iudicium.Liu.To sue him in the lawe: to bring him or it before a iudge.Adducta res in iudicium.Cic.Brought in indgement.Adductus est in iudicium. Polemocrates de dolo malo & de fraude Dione. Cicer.Dion conuented him before a iudge, and accused him of craftie and gussefull dealing.Adducere rem ad mucrones ac manus. Tac. To bring it to be tried by dint of sworde, and hande strokes.Adduci in obliuionem.Cic.To be forgotten. In angustum res adducta est.Cic.Into a narrow straite.Adducere aliquem in summas angustias.Cicer.To bring into gat perpleritie. Adducere arcum.Virg.To bende or drwe a bowe.Adducere brachium, aut lacertum. Virgil. To pull in his arme towarde him.Habenas adducere.Virg.To pull in the bridle.Laxissimas habenas habere amicitiæ: quas vel adducas cum velis, vel remittas.Cic. per translationem. Which thou maiest either pull in and restrayne, or else let slip at large, &c.Adducere lorum.Liu.To binde straite. Cibus in crimen adductus. Plin. Meafe blamed.Res in extremum est adducta discrimen.Cic.Was brought in as great daunger as could be.Nepos auum in discrimen capitis adduxit.Cic.Brought him in daunger of his life. Adducit curem macies.Ouid.Leanuesse maketh the skinne wriuckled.Mileros adduxerat artus.Virg.Had made shrinke.Adducere frontem.Ouid.To frowne. Adduci re aliqua, vt benignitate, iniuria, &c.To be perswaded, induted, moued, &c.Benignitate adducti.Cic.Commendatione alicuius.Cic. Officio. Cic.Mercede.Cic. Oratione. Cæsar. Metu.Cic. Ostentatione aliqua. Cic.Odio.Cic. Pretio. Cic.Precibus.Cic. Studio certandi. Cic.Rationibus.Cic. Temporibus. Cic.Spe mercedis.Cic. Testimonijs. Cic.Voluntate.Cic.Of our owne will and motion.Adducis me vt tibi assentiar.Cic.Thou periwadest me to beleeue thee, or assent vnto thee.Nullo frigore adducitur, vt capite operto sit.Cic.He is neuer mooued with colde, to couer his head.Illud quidem non adducor vt credam.Cic.I am not perswaded to beleeue it.Adduci non possum, aut vix possum, vt, &c.Cic.I can not o very hardly can perswade my selse, that, &c.Illuc adduci vix poslum, vt, &c.Cic. Adducere febres. Horat. To bring an agué.Adduxere sitim tempora. Hor. Tempus æstiuum adduxit sitim. Made thirstie.Adducere tædium alicuius rei. Plin. To make one wearie of a thing.Adducere vultum.Senec.To frowne: to looke sower.
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ad-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (adduce for adduc, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 15; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 29; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32: adduxti for adduxisti, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 15; id. Eun. 4, 7, 24: adduxe = adduxisse, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 3), to lead to, to bring or convey to, draw to any place or to one's self (opp. abduco, q. v.; syn.: adfero, apporto, adveho, induco). I.Lit.: quaeso, quī possim animum bonum habere, qui te ad me adducam domum, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 78: ille alter venit, quem secum adduxit Parmenio, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 27; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32: quos secum Mitylenis Cratippus adduxit, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 5: Demetrius Epimachum secum adduxit, Vitr. 10, 22, 262.—With ad: ad lenam, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 65; cf. id. Mil. 3, 1, 193: ad cenam, Lucil. ap. Non. 159, 25 (cf.: abduxi ad cenam, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2 9): adduxit ea ad Adam, Vulg. Gen. 2, 19; ib. Marc. 14, 53.—Or with a local adv.: tu istos adduce intro, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 54: quia te adducturam huc dixeras eumpse non eampse, id. Truc. 1, 2, 31; so Ter. And. 5, 3, 29: adduc huc filium tuum, Vulg. Luc. 9, 41. —2. In gen., without regard to the access. idea of accompanying, to lead or bring a person or thing to a place, to take or conduct from one place to another (of living beings which have the power of motion, while affero is properly used of things: attuli hunc. Pseud. Quid? attulisti? Ca. Adduxi volui dicere, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 21).—So of conducting an army: exercitum, Cic. Att. 7, 9: aquam,
to lead to
, id. Cael. 14.—With in: gentes feras in Italiam, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2; cf. Oud. ad Caes. B. G. 4, 22, and Auct. B. G. 8, 35: in judicium adductus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 10, 28: adducta res in judicium est, id. Off. 3, 16, 67; so id. Clu. 17.—With dat.: puero nutricem adducit, Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 4: qui ex Gallia pueros venales isti adducebat, Cic. Quint. 6.—Poet. with acc.: Diae telluris ad oras applicor et dextris adducor litora remis, Ov. M. 3, 598 (cf. advertor oras Scythicas, id. ib. 5, 649, and Rudd. II. p. 327): adducere ad populum, i. e. in judicium populi vocare, Cic. Agr. 2, 6.—Of a courtesan, to procure: puero scorta, Nep. Dion, 5: paelicem, Ov. Fast. 3, 483.—Poet. also of a place, which is, as it were, brought near. Thus Hor. in describing the attractions of his Sabine farm: dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum, Ep. 1, 16, 11.—B. Esp. 1.To bring a thing to a destined place by drawing or pulling, to draw or pull to one's self: tormenta eo graviores emissiones habent, quo sunt contenta atque adducta vehementius, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24: adducto arcu, Verg. A. 5, 507; so, adducta sagitta, id. ib. 9, 632: utque volat moles, adducto concita nervo, Ov. M. 8, 357: adducta funibus arbor corruit, id. ib. 775: funem, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: so Luc. 3, 700: colla parvis lacertis, Ov. M. 6, 625: equos, id. Fast. 6, 586.—Hence trop.: habenas amicitiae,
to tighten
, Cic. Lael. 13, 45; cf. Verg. A. 9, 632, and 1, 63.—2. Of the skin or a part of the body, to draw up, wrinkle, contract: adducit cutem macies,
wrinkles the skin
, Ov. M. 3, 397: sitis miseros adduxerat artus, Verg. G. 3, 483; so, frontem (opp. remittere), to contract: interrogavit, quae causa frontis tam adductae?
a brow so clouded?
Quint. 10, 3, 13; so Sen. Benef. 1, 1.II. Fig. A.To bring a person or thing into a certain condition; with ad or in: numquam animum quaesti gratiā ad malas adducam partīs, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 38: rem adduci ad interregnum, Cic. Att. 7, 9: ad arbitrium alterius, id. Fam. 5, 20: ad suam auctoritatem, id. Deiot. 10, 29: numquam prius discessit, quam ad finem sermo esset adductus, Nep. Ep. 3: iambos ad umbilicum adducere, Hor. Epod. 14, 8: in discrimen extremum, Cic. Phil. 6, 7; cf. Liv. 45, 8: in summas angustias, Cic. Quint. 5: in invidiam falso crimine, id. Off. 3, 20: in necessitatem, Liv. 8, 7: vitam in extremum, Tac. A. 14, 61.—B.To bring or lead one to a certain act, feeling, or opinion; to prompt, induce, prevail upon, persuade, move, incite to it; with ad, in, or ut (very freq. and class., and for the most part in a good sense; while seducere and inducere denote instigating or seducing to something bad, Herz. Caes. B. G. 1, 3; although there are exceptions, as the foll. examples show): ad misericordiam, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 42: ad nequitiem, id. Ad. 3, 3, 4: ad iracundiam, ad fletum, Cic. Brut. 93, 322: quae causa ad facinus adduxit, id. Rosc. Am. 31: in metum, id. Mur. 24: in summam exspectationem, id. Tusc. 1, 17: in spem, id. Att. 2, 22: in opinionem, id. Fam. 1, 1: in suspicionem alicui, Nep. Hann. 7: ad paenitentiam, Vulg. Rom. 2, 4; ib. 10, 19.—With gerund: ad suspicandum, Cic. Pr. Cons. 16: ad credendum, Nep. Con. 3.—With ut: adductus sum officio, fide, misericordia, etc., ut onus hoc laboris mihi suscipiendum putarem, Cic. Verr. 1, 2: nullo imbre, nullo frigore adduci, ut capite operto sit, id. de Sen. 10: id. Cat. 1, 2; id. Fam. 3, 9; 6, 10, etc.; Caes. B. G. 6, 12; Liv. 4, 49 al.—And absol. in pass.: quibus rebus adductus ad causam accesserim demonstravi, Cic. Verr. 1, 3: his rebus adducti,
being induced
, Caes. B. G. 1, 3; 6, 10.—With quin: adduci nequeo quin existimem, Suet. Tib. 21.—With inf.: facilius adducor ferre humana humanitus, Afr. ap. Non. 514, 20.—C. Adducor with inf., or with ut and subj. = adducor ad credendum, pei/qomai, to be induced to believe: ego non adducor, quemquam bonum ullam salutem putare mihi tanti fuisse, Cic. Att. 11, 16: ut jam videar adduci, hanc quoque, quae te procrearit, esse patriam, id. Leg. 2, 3: illud adduci vix possum, ut ... videantur, id. Fin. 1, 5, 14; id. ib. 4, 20, 55; Lucr. 5, 1341.—Hence, adductus, a, um, P. a.A.Drawn tight, stretched, strained, contracted.—Trop.: vultus, Suet. Tib. 68: frons in supercilia adductior, Capitol. Ver. 10; cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 16.—Hence, B. Of place, narrow, contracted, strait: (Africa) ex spatio paulatim adductior, Mel. 1, 4.—C. Of character, strict, serious, severe: modo familiaritate juvenili Nero et rursus adductus, quasi seria consociaret, Tac. A. 14, 4: adductum et quasi virile servitium, id. ib. 12, 7: vis pressior et adductior, Plin. Ep. 1, 16.—Sup. not used.—Adv. only in comp. adductĭus, 1.More tightly: adductius contorquere jacula, Aus. Grat. Act. 27.—2.Trop., more strictly: imperitare, Tac. H. 3, 7: regnari, id. Germ. 43.