To drawe, plucke, or pull off or away: to take from by violence: to reporce ill of one: to diminish or abate: to plucke backe. Detrahere amiculum. Cic. To pul off his garment. Addere & Detrahere, contraria. Cic. Detrahere aliquid alteri. Cic. To take somewhat from one by force. Eidem detraxit Armeniam Senatu datam. Cice. He pulled from him or depriued him of the gouernment of Armenia, &c. Detrahere de collo. Plau. To pull from ones necke. Detrahere annulum de digito. Terent. To take a ring from his finger. Detrahere quid de aliquo quod sibi assumat. Cicer. Detrahere aliquem pedibus è Tribunali. Suero. To pull or drawe out of the iudge men: seate by the legges. Detrahere naues ad terram. Hirt. To drawe the shippes to land. Detrahere torquem hosti. Cic. To take a chaine from. Detrahere cruenta spolia. Cic. Detrahere alicui. Ouid. To report or speake ill of one: to backebite. Sibi. Cic. To blame or speake ill of himselfe. De absentibus. Cic. To backebite and raile of men absent. Detrahere de authoritare Senatus, cui opponitur Ornare Senatum multis laudibus. Ci. In words to diminish and debase the Senates authoritie. Defama alicuius detrahere. Cice. To speake ill of one: with words to hurt his bonest name. Ad accusationem aliquem detrahere. Cic. To bring one to accuse. Derrahere alumnum mamma. Plin. To weane a child from the teate. De amore detrahere aliquid. Cic. To diminish lone. Detrahere auxilia siue legiones principi. Cæsa. To take hys alde and souldiours from him. Detrahere aliquem de cælo. Cice. To pul out of heauen: to put from doing some noble acte whereby be shoulde haue had exceeding great praile. Calamitatem detrahere alicui. Ci. To put out of miserie and trouble. De commodis suis. Cic. To diminish or pull from his owne commodrties. Crimen alicui. Lucan. To bring out of blame. Detrahere & lpoliare dignitarem alicuius. Cic. Detrahere fastidium dicuntur lupini. Plini. To take awaye loathsomnesse to meate. Detrahere fidem vetbis alicuius. Quintil. To pull credite from mens wordes: to make them not beleeued. Nido fœtus implumes. Virg. To take yong birdes out of the neast, before they be feathered. Honorem debitum alicui. Ci. To take due houor from one. Vt eum ab illa iniuria detraherent. Cicer. That they should. withdrawe him from doing that iniurie. Detrahere in iudicium. Cic. To bring in iudgement. Detrahere de suo iure. Cic. To remit or abate somewhat of his owne right. Inuidiam noxæ detrahere. Ouid. De pecunia aliquid detrahere. Cice. To abate somewhat of the money. Detrahere de pondere. & paulo minoris æstimare. Cicer. To diminish the weight, and esteeme lesse. Detrahere aliquem ex possessione. Liui. To pull out of pos. session. Propter quod plurimum pretio detrabitur. Col. For whiche the price is much diminished or abated. Ne æris, argenti, auri, metallis pretia detraherentur. Plini. That brasse, slluer, &c. might not be the lesse esteemed. Detrahere aliquem ex prouincia suis sententijs. Cicero. By their senteuces to appoint him to returne out of. Ex reditu. Colu. To abate or diminishe ones reuenue. Sacerdotem ab aris. Cic. To pul the priest from the aulter. Sanguinem detrahere. Col. To let bloud. Detrahit solicitudines philosophia. Cic. Philosophie pulleth away pensiuenesse and care. Detrahe menti spem fructus. Ouid. Take from the minde hope of commoditie. Detrahere ex summa. Cic. To abate of the summe. De viuo. Cic. To pull from the principall of the thing.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.

(a). With acc. and de or ex with abl.: crumenam sibi de collo, Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 7: anulum de digito, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 38: aliquem de curru, Cic. Cael. 14 fin. et saep.: aliquem ex cruce, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, 6; so, stramenta e mulis, Caes. B. G. 7, 45, 2: homines ex provinciis, Cic. Prov. Cons. 1; cf.: inimicum ex Gallia, id. ib. 8, 19: Hannibalem ex Italia, Liv. 29, 20; aliquem pedibus e tribunali, Suet. Rhet. 6 et saep.—

(b). With acc. and dat.: nudo vestimenta detrahere me jubes, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 79: alicui anulum, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 31: vestem alicui, id. Eun. 4, 4, 40: amiculum alicui, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83: torquem alicui, id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: loricam alicui, Verg. A. 5, 260 et saep.: tegumenta scutis, Caes. B. G. 2, 21, 5: frenos equis, Liv. 4, 33 et saep.: virum equo, Liv. 22, 47; cf.: aliquem in transvehendo, Suet. Aug. 38.

(g). With acc. alone: vestimenta, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: veste detracta, Cic. Brut. 75, 262: soccos detrahunt (servi), Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 72: detractis insignibus imperatoris, Caes. B. C. 3, 96, 3: vestem, Cic. Brut. 75, 262; statuas, Just. 38, 8, 12.—

(d). With ad, in, or trans: castella trans Euphraten, Tac. A. 15, 17 et saep.: aliquem in judicium, Cic. Mil. 8, 38; cf.: aliquem ad accusationem, id. Clu. 68, 179: aliquem ad aequum certamen, Liv. 22, 13: tauros ad terram cornibus, Suet. Claud. 21; cf.: naves ad terram, Auct. B. Alex. 10 fin.: dominationem in carcerem et catenas, Flor. 1, 24, 3.—

B. In partic.

1. In medic. lang., to purge, Cels. 2, 10 fin.; Plin. 27, 7, 28, 48 et saep.—

2. With the accessory idea of depriving or diminishing, to remove, withdraw, take away a thing from any one; to draw off, remove, take away from any thing.

(a). With acc. and de or ex with abl.: multa de suis commodis, Cic. Lael. 16, 57: aliquid de summa, Lucr. 3, 513; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 78, 181: aliquid ex ea summa, id. Att. 10, 5; and: nihil de vivo, id. Fl. 37: ex tertia acie singulas cohortes, Caes. B. C. 3, 89, 3; cf.: detractis cohortibus duabus, id. B. G. 3, 2, 3.—

(b). With acc. and dat.: cum ei eidem detraxisset Armeniam, Cic. Div. 2, 37 fin.: scuto militi detracto, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: coronam capiti, Liv. 38, 47; cf. Hor. S. 1, 10, 48: auxilia illi, Caes. B. G. 6, 5, 5: fasces indigno (opp. deferre), Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 34 et saep.: pellem hostiae, to flay, Vulg. Levit. 1, 6.—

(g). With acc. and ab with abl.: aliquid ab homine, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 30.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to pull down, to lower (very rarely): regum majestatem ab summo fastigio ad medium, Liv. 37, 45, 18: superbiam, Vulg. Isa. 23, 9.—Far more freq.,

B. In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2.), to withdraw, take away, take; to lower in estimation, disparage, detract from.

(a). With de or ex: detractis de homine sensibus, Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30; cf.: quicquam de nostra benevolentia, id. Fam. 5, 2 fin.: tantum sibi de facultate, id. Brut. 70 fin.; cf.: studiose de absentibus detrahendi causa, severe dicitur, id. Off. 1, 37, 134: de ipso, qui scripsit, detrahi nihil volo, Cic. Pis. 29, 71: aliquid de aliquo, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7: de hoc senatu detrahere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20; so, de aliquo, id. Att. 11, 11 fin.; Nep. Chabr. 3, 3: de se, Cic. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf.: de rebus gestis alicujus, Nep. Timol. 5, 3: quantum detraxit ex studio, tantum amisit ex gloria, Cic. Brut. 67, 236; cf. id. Div. ap. Caecil. 15, 49; id. Fam. 1, 5, a.—

(b). With dat.: nihil tibi detraxit senatus nisi, etc. (opp. dare), id. ib. 1, 5, b; cf. opp. concedere, id. de Or. 2, 71; Quint. 11, 1, 71: honorem debitum ordini, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11: illam opinionem maerenti, id. Tusc. 3, 31, 76: auctoritatem Cottae, Quint. 6, 5, 10: fidem sibi, id. 2, 17, 15; 5, 7, 4 al.: errorem animis, Ov. M. 2, 39: multum alicui, Nep. Eum. 1, 2: regi, Vulg. Eccles. 10, 20.—

(g). Absol.: aliquid dicere detrahendae spoliandaeque dignitatis alicujus gratia, Cic. Cael. 2 et saep.: laudis simulatione detrahitur, Quint. 8, 6, 55; id. 12, 9, 7.—

C. To withhold: ususfructus in mancipanda proprietate detrahi potest, Gai. Inst. 2, 33.