Pertracto, pertractas, partractâre. Cicer.To touche or handle much or oft.Pertractare bestias manibus. Hirtius. Pertractare, per translationem.Cic.To consider or thinke of a matter diligently.Omni cogitatione pertractans.Cic.Considering the thing verie earnestly in my minde.Diligenter & sæpe aliquid pertractare. Ci. Diurnitatem pertractare. Cic. Pertractare Cicero.To handle or dispute: to intreat and reason of a matter.Philosophiam pertractare.Cic.Pertractatas res habere.Cic.To haue matters alreadie debated and considered in his minde.
Pertraho, trahis, pe. co. traxi, ctum, here. Liu.To drawe with force.Pertrahere aliquem in castra.Liu.Pertrahere vitam. Pli. To prolong his life.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-tracto (pertrecto), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to touch, feel, handle any thing (class.). I.Lit.: papillam, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71: mullos, Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38: bestias manibus, Auct. B. afr. 72: arma, Plin. 25, 6, 30, 66: caput dormienti, Just. 1, 9, 17: corpus hominis, App. Flor. p. 362.—II.Trop., to busy or occupy one's self with any thing, to handle, treat, to investigate, study any thing: mentem omni cogitatione pertractans, Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 118: sensus mentesque hominum, id. de Or. 1, 51, 222: narrationem, id. Inv. 2, 14, 45: ad totam philosophiam pertractandam se dare, id. N. D. 1, 4, 9: pertractare ea quae rem continent, id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: primum quae scripsi mecum ipse pertracto, Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 7: pertractare visu vulnera,
to explore
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scan
, Sil. 10, 452: mente, Vulg. Nahum. 1, 11.—Hence, per-tractātē, adv., in a well-considered manner, elaborately, systematically: nam pertractate facta est (fabula), i. e.
per-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to draw or drag, to bring or conduct forcibly to a place (not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit.: aliquem in castra, Liv. 7, 39: ratem ad ripam, id. 21, 28: pertractus ad Vitellium, Tac. H. 2, 72: mulierem Romam ad centumviros, Phaedr. 3, 10, 34: patriam suam in jus, ad aliam civitatem, Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.: aliquem intra moenia vinctum, id. 7, n. 8.— b.To entice, allure to a place: in locum iniquum pertractus, Liv. 6, 24: hostem ad insidiarum locum, id. 21, 4, 4.—II.Transf., to draw out, extract: virus, Scrib. Larg. 173. —III.Trop., to lead away, lead astray: sui erroris arbitrio pertrahere et alios multos, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 3, 1.