To preuent or apprehend vnware: to take vp before: to take vp by the way: to take in the meane while. Intercipere aliquid. Cic. By channce to take a thing before. Iter intercipere. Liu. To keepe and close vp a waye that men passe not. Librum intercipere. Quint. To take the booke by the way. A quo tutor liberis relictus, regnum intercepit. Plin. iuni. He who was left Protectour to his children tooke on him the kingdome in the meane time. Intercipere literas. Ci. To intercept or take letters by % way. Nequa interciperet obliuio. Plini. iun. That it might not bee forgotten, or fal out of minde. Victoriam intercipere alieno labore quæsitam. Plin. iunior. To take in hande a victorle alreadie gotten by an other mans trauaile. Interceptus mortalitate rex. Plin. innior The King dyed, or was preuented with death, while the thing was doing. Intercipi morbo. Colum. As he is about a thing to fall sicke, or be attached with a disease.

I. Lit.: tun redimes me, si me hostes interceperint? Plaut. As. 1, 1, 93: venenum, to take the poison intended for another, Cic. Clu. 60: litteras, id. Att. 1, 13, 2; cf.: litterae interceptae, id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 3; id. Att. 10, 8; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1; Curt. 4, 10, 6: epistulam, id. 6, 9, 13: magnum numerum jumentorum atque hominum, Caes. B. C. 1, 55: commeatus, Liv. 36, 3: aliquis ab suis interceptus, cut off, id. 29, 9: hostes discretos, Tac. H. 4, 75: in sublime jactari sagoque intercipi (be held fast) ne tellurem attingat, Plin. 29, 3, 12, 52: interceptae e publico pecuniae, Tac. A. 4, 45: terga caput tangunt, colla intercepta videntur, to be wanting, Ov. M. 6, 379: quam (hastam) medius Rhoeteus intercipit, comes in the way of, i. e. is struck or killed by, Verg. A. 10, 402.—

II. Transf.

A. To interrupt, hinder, cut off, preoccupy, preclude: medium iter, Liv. 25, 39, 2 (al. intersaepto): opportuna loca, id. 9, 43, 3: hostiles ingressus, Tac. A. 15, 3: medios sermones, Quint. 6, 4, 11: pedestre iter, Curt. 4, 2, 9: usum aurium intercipiente fremitu, id. 4, 13, 38.—

B. To take away, rob, steal: aliquid ab aliquo, Liv. 3, 71: aliquid alicui, Ov. P. 4, 7, 25; Plin. Pan. 75: veram laudem, Phaedr. 4, 12, 2: commentarios, quorum tamen pars maxima intercepta dicitur, copied from other sources, Suet. Gram. 3.—

C. Of death, to snatch away, carry off: si me fata intercepissent, Quint. prooem. 1, 6: apes saepe morbis intercipiuntur, Col. 9, 3: rex mortalitate interceptus, Plin. Ep. 10, 50; 6, 25, 4: interceptus veneno, Tac. Agr. 43; id. A. 3, 12; Suet. Caes. 20 fin.: scelere Pisonis, id. ib. 2, 71: a manu gladiatorum, id. Aug. 14 fin.: ceterum interceptus quoque magnum sibi vindicat locum, Quint. 10, 1, 121: neque ob aliud interceptus, quam, etc., Tac. A. 2, 82: Theophilum atrox interceperat casus, Amm. 14, 7, 8.