To prolõg: to draw in length: to stretche out: to bring forth: to consume or spend. To set forth to hire, or to bring forth to be sold: to follow. Cic. Cœnam producere. Hor. ConuiuiÛ producere vario sermone ad multam noctem. C. Cyathos sorbillans, paulatim hunc producam diem. Terent. I will passe forth this day by little & little with sipping and drinking. Moram alicui malo producere. Ter. To deferre or delaye a mischiefe. Noctem vino producere. Mar. To passe the night with drinking and quaffing. Pelles dentibus producere. Martial. To draw or stretche out skinnes with ones teeth. Rem producere. Cæs. To prolong a matter. Rem in hyemem producere. Cæs. Sermonem longius producere. Cic. Further to prolong his talke. Sermonem in multam noctem producere. Cic. To continue on his talke till it be late in the night. Spem vitæ producere. Tac. Illi producit vitam ad miseriam. Pla. To cause to liue lõger in miserie. Ad centesimum annum viram produxit. Ci. He lined till he was an hundred yeares old. Producere. Plaut. To bring forth. Quos iussi huc produci foras. Plaut. Whome I commanded to be brought forth hither. Producere cunctantem. Col. To draw forward one hanging backward. Paulatim longius cum oneribus producendi sunt. Col. Ad sosem producere. Col. To bring forth to be sunned. Ad necem producere. Cic. E carcere producere. Cic. Copias suas in aciem producere. Galba Ciceroni. Producere aliquem in concionem. Cic. In prospectum populi producere. Ci. To bring forth in the sight of the people. Coram productus. Cic. Authorem vel restem producere. Cic. Gel. To cite or bring forth an authour or witnesse. In iudicium producere. Ci. To bring before a Iudge: to sue. In ius produecre, Idem. Quint. Aliquem producere, Absolutè, pro in Ius producere. Cicer. Producere aliquem rus. Ter. To send one awaye into the countrie. Producere aliquem, Ci. To driue of one with fayre wordes and promises. Producere aliquem falla spe. Ter. To feede one with a falst hope: to bring him in a fooles paradice. Nulla sponsione ad hoc productus, id est, inductus. Pli. Induced or moued to this. &c. Productus studio & viribus vler facilè procurras. Author ad Herennium. Producere aliquem. Ci. To promote and aduance one. Cui opponitur, Subducere. Quem tu non pro illius dignitate produxeras, sed pro tuo scelere subduxeras. Cicer. Bud. -ancillas, seruos Omnes produxi ac vendidi. Terentius. I brought forth and sold. &c. Producere filiam. Iuuen. To set forth his own daughter to be abused: to be baude to his owne daughter. Producere filios. Plaut. To bring forth children. Partus producere. Sil. Idem. Sobolem producere. Hor. To bring forth issue. Multa cura sata producuntur ad segetem. Seneca. Seede sown with much care and diligence is brought to be corn. Exemplum producere. Inuen. Scelus producere. Teren. To commit a mischieuous acte. Memoriam alicuius scriptorÛ monumento producere. Sen. To cause the remembrance of ones writings to continue long. Funus producere ad tumulum. Luc. To follow or accompanie the corpse vnto the graue.

I. Lit. (class.): fidicinam intus, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 40: aliquem foras ante aedes, id. Capt. 2, 2, 2: aliquem e latebris, Petr. 126: castris omnem exercitum, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 62: copias pro castris, Caes. B. G. 1, 48.—Esp.

a. To bring before the people, senate, or a court: aliquem in conspectum populi Romani, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, 122: quempiam in contionem, id. Pis. 6, 14: cum tribunis plebis Curionem et Octavium consules produxisset, id. Brut. 60, 217; Liv. 27, 7, 4: harum rerum omnium auctores testesque, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, 131: productus pro rostris, to give evidence, Suet. Jul. 20 fin.: producti in circo Flaminio in contionem, Cic. Sest. 14, 33: in judicium, to bring before a court, id. Verr. 2, 1, 43, 113: aliquem in Sestium, id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 1: aliquem ad necem, id. Verr. 2, 5, 60, 157.—

b. Of an actor, to represent, perform: nihil ab hoc (Roscio) pravum et perversum produci posse arbitrabantur, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30. —

c. To expose for sale: ancillam produxit, vendidit, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 54: servos, id. Heaut. 1, 1, 92; Suet. Gram. 4.—

d. To draw or place one thing before another (poet.): producere malo aliquam moram, Ter. And. 3, 5, 9: scamnum lecto, Ov. A. A. 2, 211: nubila menti, Stat. S. 5, 3, 13.—

e. To draw or stretch out, to lengthen out, extend (poet. and post-Aug.): pelles dentibus, Mart. 9, 74, 1: ferrum incude, Juv. 15, 165: supercilium madidā fuligine tactum, id. 2, 94: lineas ex argento nigras, Plin. 33, 6, 31, 98.—

f. To conduct to a place: non tu eum rus hinc modo Produxe aiebas? Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 22.—

g. To conduct to the grave, sc. a corpse or a funeral procession (poet.): nec te, tua funera, mater Produxi, Verg. A. 9, 486: longum funus ad tumulos, Luc. 2, 298.—

h. To lead or bring along, to bring away: qui et procurrentem retrahat, et cunctantem producat, to drag forward, Col. 6, 2, 9.—

i. To bring to light, disclose, expose: occulta ad patres produxit crimina servus, Juv. 8, 266. —

B. In partic.

1. To bring forth, bring into the world, to bear or beget: ego is sum qui te produxi pater, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 129: liberos, id. Capt. 3, 5, 105; Lucil. ap. Non. 373, 2: magnanimos nos natura produxit, Sen. Ep. 104, 23: quam te Thersitae similem producat Achilles, Juv. 8, 271.— Of other subjects, to produce, make (postAug.): cibis utendum est carnem producentibus, Cels. 8, 7, 7: cum folia producere incipiunt fici, Pall. 4, 10, 30.—

2. = adduco in indicium, to bring forth to trial, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, 32 (Zumpt); Quint. 11, 3, 174.—

3. To make to grow, to advance, promote (poet.): subolem. Hor. C. S. 17.—

4. In pronunciation, to lengthen, prolong (class.): inclitus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā, Cic. Or. 48, 159: syllabam, Ov. P. 4, 12, 13; Quint. 1, 5, 18.—

II. Trop.

A. To bring forward (to distinction), to raise, promote, advance (class.): producere aliquem ad aliquam dignitatem. Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52: aliquem omni genere honoris, Liv. 40, 56: quem tu non pro illius dignitate produxeras, Cic. Dom. 9, 21: a quibus producti sunt, exsistunt eorum ipsorum tyranni, advanced to power, id. Rep. 1, 44, 68: beneficia, quae non producunt, nec honestiorem faciunt, Sen. Ben. 2, 9, 2.—

B. To lead, induce one to do any thing: producti sumus, ut loqueremur, Auct. Her. 1, 3, 5: productus ad aliquid faciendum, Plin. 9, 35, 59, 122.—

C. To draw or drag out, to lengthen out, prolong, protract (class.): producere pauperi vitam ad miseriam, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 59: cenam, Hor. S. 1, 5, 70: convivium ad multam noctem vario sermone, Cic. Sen. 14, 46: sermonem in multam noctem, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10: sermonem longius, id. Brut. 71, 251: Varro .. vitam Naevii producit longius, i. e. represents him as having lived longer, id. ib. 15, 60: somnum ultra primam lucem, Suet. Aug. 78: rem in hiemem, Caes. B. G. 4, 30: animas, lives, Juv. 15, 94.—

2. To put off, to amuse, delude one with fallacious promises: aliquem falsā spe producere, Ter. And. 4, 1, 25: aliquem conditionibus, Cic. Quint. 8, 30.—

D. Of time, to pass, spend (poet.): cyathos sorbillans diem, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 52.—

E. To bring up, educate: audientem dicto, mater, produxisti filiam, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 40: principes liberos, Tac. Or. 28: laevo monitu pueros avaros, Juv. 14, 228.—

F. To make, devise, produce, bring into use: nova (vocabula) quae genitor produxerit usus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 119.—

G. To plant, cultivate: quicunque primum te produxit, arbor, Hor. C. 2, 13, 3.—Hence, prōductus, a, um, P. a., lengthened, long, prolonged, protracted, etc. (class.): productiore cornu sinistro, drawn out, extended, Tac. A. 13, 40 Halm: productissimum flagellum, Col. 3, 10: commoditates corporis tam productae temporibus, Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 29: dolores longinquitate producti, id. Tusc. 5, 40, 117: exitus (orationis), id. de Or. 2. 53, 213: productiora alia, et quasi immoderatius excurrentia, too long, id. Or. 53, 178; so, producta syllaba (opp. short), id. ib. 48, 159: nomen, formed by prolongation, id. N. D. 2, 26, 66: neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula, longer, Hor. A. P. 189.—

B. Subst.: prōducta, ōrum, n., preferable things (a transl. of the Gr. ta( prohgme/na): in vitā non ea, quae primario loco sunt, sed ea, quae secundum locum obtinent, prohgme/na, id est producta nominantur; quae vel ita appellemus (id erit verbum e verbo), vel promota, et remota, vel, ut dudum diximus, praeposita, vel praecipua; et illa rejecta, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52; cf. Sen. Ep. 74, 17.—Hence, adv.: prōductē, in a lengthened manner, long (class.): producte dicere litteram, opp. breviter, Cic. Or. 48, 159: producte dicere syllabam, opp. correpte, Gell. 2, 17, 5.—Comp.: syllaba productius pronunciata, Gell. 4, 17, 8.