To draw to leade: to deferre: to delate: to prolong: to driue of: to extende: to prouoke: to entice. Trahere, & Sustollere amiculum, contraria. Plaut. To let his gowne traile on the ground be hinde him. De visceribus traxerat ipsa suis. Mart. De medio aliquem trahere. Li. Ex puteis aquam trahere. Cic. To draw. Traxit ex intimo ventre suspirium. Plaut. He sighed from the bottome of his heart. Exiguo funem conanime traxit. Ouid. Magnes lapis est qui ferrum ad se allicit & trahit. Cic. That allureth and draweth to it, &c. Omnes trahimur & ducimur ad cognitionis & sciÊtiæ cupiditatem. Cic. We al be drawne and led to, &c. Trahere aliquid animis. Salust. To cast and reuolue a thing in their minds: to thinke or muse long vpon. Trahere cum animo suo, præstétne hoc facere, an illud. Idem Salust. To cast and muse with him selfe, &c. Trahere rem aliquam. Salust. To protact, or prolong. Tanta comitate conuiuium trahitur. Pli. iun. Pœnam trahere. Sen. Acerbissima crudelitas est, quæ pœnam trahit: & misericordiæ genus est, citò occidere. That proloneth the paine, or draweth it in length, &c. Spem alicuius trahere. Sen. To make one looke long before hee haue that he would haue. Trahere. Virg. To bring in great haste. Amici partem diei ad se trahunt. Pli. iun. My friendes let me, or occupie me one part of the day. Ad defectionem trahere. Liu. To perswade: to forsake or reuolc from. Ad bella trahor. Tibul. Alimentum maternum trahere dicitur agnus. Col. To sucke the damme. In altitudinem trahere. Plin. To stretch foorth in height. Aluum trahere. Vir. To haue a great hauging bellie. Aluum trahere. Plin. To loose the belly: to make to goe to the stoole. Animam trahere. Pli. To liue. Animam præcariam trahere. Tac. To liue by the benesite and mercy of an other. Animam trahere in spe. Liu. To liue in hope. Sic animum tempúlque traho. Ouid. I do indifferently continue my stomack and passe the time. Trahunt diuersæ animum curæ. Ter. Cares distrart my minde diuersly. Aquã trahit nauigiÛ. Sen. The ship leaketh, or letteth in water. In arma trahere viros. Ouid. Arte aliqua trahi. Ouid. To be allured, &c. Bellum trahere. Ci. To prolong the warre. In eandem calamitatem alterum trahere. Cic. Calorem trahere. Ouid. To ware hote. Candorem trahere. Plin. To ware white. Cariem trahere. Pli. To ware mouldie. Caudam trahere. Hor. To haue a long taile. Cognomen ab aliquo trahere. Pli. To haue a surname of one. Cognomen ex contumelia trahere. Cic. To haue a surname of some fault that is in them. Colorem rubicundum trahere. Col. To gather to a ruddie colout, to ware ruddie. Colorem nigrum traxere Aethiopes. Ouid. Wared blacke. Ceruix comæq; trahuntur per terram. Virgil. His necke and haire are drawne on the ground. Secum concionem trahere. Liu. To leade the assemble of the people with him. Consilium trahere. Sta. To take counsaile & aduise: to consult. Aeger enim traxi contagia corpore mentis. Ouid. By grief of mind I am fallen into ficknesse of bodie: sorow and anguish of minde hath made me sicke in bodie also. In crimen aliquem trahere. Tacit. To appeach one with other. Crinibus passis trahebatur virgo. Virg. Decus alicuius rei ad aliquem trahere. Liu. To pull the praise of doing a thing from one, to attribute it to an other. Dictum aliquod trahere in voluntatem suam. Pli. iun. To interpreate a thing donbtfully spoken, as he woulde haue it. Dictis alicuius trahi. Ouid. To bee perswaded with. In disceptationem trahere aliquem. Liu. To beginne to reason and contende with one. In diuersum trahit me hæc res. Liu. This matter bringeth me in a doubt, or maketh me to doubt. Defectio Tarentinorum vtrum priore anno, an hoe facta sit, in diuersum authores trahunt. Li. Authors write diuerslye. Errore trahi Ouid. To erre. Quò fata trahunt, retrahuntq;, sequamur. Virg. Whether destiuie leadeth vs, &c. Figuram lapidis traxerunt ossa. Ouid. Theyr bones beganne to be turned to stones. Fortunam tut. trahere. Cicer. To liue in suretie and out of danger. Fulgore nominis & famæ trahi Ouid. Genua ægra trahens. Virgil. Drawing his feeble legges after him. Gratiam rectè factorum sibi trahere. Tac. To pull to himselfe the praises and thankes of things well done. Huc & illac trahuntur rationes in dispurando. Cice. Humorem trahere. Col. To drawe humonr to it. Ignes trahere. Ouid. To fall in deepe loue with one: to conceiue inwatdly of hir. Aliquem in inoidiam trahere. Author ad Heren. To bring one in enuy, hatred, or displeasure. Labe trahi communis vitij. Ou. To be fected with the common vice of other: to waxe naught as other be. Laborem ingratum trahens. Virgil. Lingring to trauelle and do a thing. Laudem trahere ab re aliqua. Ouid. To get praise by, &c. Ad lœthum trahere aliquem. Virg. Limitem longiorem trahere. Plin. To haue long foreparte or way to the thing it selfe. In longius aliquid trahere. Quint. To prolong: to deferre. Fata me trahebant in pœnam. Ouid. Omne trahit secum Cæsaris ira malum. Ouid. Mentes artificio trahere, Plin. With cunning to drawe to it, or to allure, &c. Quæ mentem insania traxit? Stat. What furie or madnesse is come vpon him: In metum aliquid trahere. Tac. Molestiam trahere. Cic. To conceiue sorrowe. Trahitur è cœlo natura hominis. Plin. Man hathe his nature from heauen: or it commeth from, &c. Noctem per pocula & vario sermone trahere. Martia. Virgil. With drinking and talke to passe ouer the night. Nomen trahere ab ahquo, Ouid. To haue name of, &c. Nomen è re aliqua trahere. Plin. To be named by, or to haue name of a thing. Ille Numantina traxit ab vrbe notam. Ouid. He had his surname of the Citie Numantia that he destroyed. Vento trahitur nubes. Virg. Obsidionem in aduentum principis trahere. Liui. To prolong or protracte the siege vntill, &c. Odorem trahere. Plin. To beginne to sauour. Originem rege trahere. Plini. To haue beginning, or to be descended of a royall stocke. Oscitationes longas trahere. Mart. To gaspe and yawne long togither. Pallam trahens verrit humum. Ouidi. Hee letteth his gowne hang downe and sweepe on the grounde after him. Pallorem trahere. Col. To become pale. In partes aliquem trahere. Tac. To bring, allure, or perswade one to take part with him, or to be of his faction. In partem aliam trahere aliquem. Plancus Cicer. Pedibus rem trahere, Vide PES. Plaustra trahunt per altos montes. Virg. In profundum pondere trabi. Liu. Promissa trahunt puellas. Oui. Allure. Rationes belli atque pacis trahere. Salust. To muse, deuise, or thinke with himselfe, &c. Omnem rationem ad dicendum trahere. Cic. In religionem trahere aliquid. Liu. To make conscience of a thing. Funditus rempublicam trahere. Tacit. To draw to vtter destruction. Rubiginem trahere. Plin. To waxe rustie. Ruborem traxerunt percussa pectora. Ouidi. Became or waxed red. Ruinam trahere. Virg. To haue a great fall. Ad sæuitiam aliquid trahere. Tac To interprct a thing to bee cruelly done: to say that it is, &c. Senium trahere luctu. Claud. To passe ouer his olde age in sorowe. In suam sententiam trahere aliquem. Liui. To bring one to his opinion. In serum rem aliquam trahere. Liu. To prolong the thing till it be late. Situm trahere. Plin. To waxe monldy or hoare. Somnos trahere per luspiria. Ouid. Sortes trahere. Virg. To drawe lots. Spes eò trahit. Liu. Hope draweth me thither. Spe trahor exigua. Ouid. I haue a small hope. Spiritum trahere. Col. To breathe: to fetch breath. Spolia de hostibus trahere. Cice. To pull spuile from their enimies. Studio laudis trahi. Cic. To be led or drawne with desire of praise. Ad supplicium trahi. Ci. Suspiciones ex aliqua te trahere. Cic. To garber suspicions by a thing. Suspiria trahere. Ouid. To fetche sighes. Torrens trahit syluas præcipites. Virg. The streame carryeth violently with it. Tempus trahere. Virg. To passe ouer time. Verba trahere, Sil. To drawe his wordes in length. Victoriam secum trahere, Liu. To draw dictorie with him wheresoeuer he go. Inuitatio benigna vtrosq; in vinum traxit. Liu. Gentle salutation and bidding, allured them both to drincke, or to be drunke. Viribus trahere. Quint. Vitam trahere. Virg. With great paine to liùe. Vitam in tenebris luctuq; trahebain. Virg. I did leade my life in solitarinesse and mourning. Vocem trahens imo pectore. Virg. Trahit sua quenque voluptas. Vir. Ech man hath his pleasure that he delighteth in. Vultum trahere. Ouid. To frowne.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: Amphitruonem collo, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 72: cum a custodibus in fugā trinis catenis vinctus traheretur, Caes. B. G. 1, 53: trahebatur passis Priameïa virgo Crinibus a templo Cassandra, Verg. A. 2, 403: corpus tractum et laniatum abjecit in mare, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5: materiam (malagmata), Cels. 4, 7: bilem, Plin. 25, 5, 22, 54: vapor porro trahit aëra secum, Lucr. 3, 233: limum harenamque et saxa ingentia fluctus trahunt, Sall. J. 78, 3: Charybdis naves ad litora trahit, id. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 425; cf.: Scyllam naves in saxa trahentem, Verg. l. l.: (haematiten) trahere in se argentum, aes, ferrum, Plin. 36, 20, 38, 146: Gy. Amiculum hoc sustolle saltem. Si. Sine trahi, cum egomet trahor, let it drag or trail, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 117; cf.: tragula ab eo, quod trahitur per terram, Varr. L. L. 5, 139 Müll.: sarcinas, Sen. Ep. 44, 6: vestem per pulpita, Hor. A. P. 215: plaustra per altos montes cervice (boves), Verg. G. 3, 536: siccas machinae carinas, Hor. C. 1, 4, 2: genua aegra, Verg. A. 5, 468: trahantur per me pedibus omnes rei, Cic. Fam. 7, 32, 2; cf.: aliquem ad praetorem, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 45: praecipitem in pistrinum, id. Ps. 1, 5, 79: Hectorem circum sua Pergama, to drag, trail, Ov. M. 12, 591. — Of a train of soldiers, attendants, etc.: Scipio gravem jam spoliis multarum urbium exercitum trahens, Liv. 30, 9, 10: ingentem secum occurrentium prosequentiumque trahentes turbam, id. 45, 2, 3; 6, 3, 4; cf.: sacra manu victosque deos parvumque nepotem Ipse trahit, Verg. A. 2, 321: secum legionem, Val. Max. 3, 2, 20: feminae pleraeque parvos trahentes liberos, ibant, Curt. 3, 13, 12; 5, 5, 15: uxor, quam comitem trahebat, id. 8, 3, 2: folium secum, Val. Max. 4, 3, 12: cum privato comitatu quem semper secum trahere moris fuit, Vell. 2, 40, 3: magnam manum Thracum secum, id. 2, 112, 4.—

B. In partic.

1. To draw out, pull out, extract, withdraw: trahens haerentia viscere tela, drawing out, extracting, Ov. M. 6, 290: ferrum e vulnere, id. ib. 4, 120: e corpore ferrum, id. F. 5, 399: de corpore telum, id. M. 5, 95; cf.: gladium de visceribus, Mart. 1, 14, 2: manu lignum, Ov. M. 12, 371; cf.: te quoque, Luna, traho (i. e. de caelo), draw down, id. ib. 7, 207: captum Jovem Caelo trahit, Sen. Oct. 810. —

2. To draw together, bring together, contract, wrinkle: at coria et carnem trahit et conducit in unum, Lucr. 6, 968: in manibus vero nervi trahere, id. 6, 1190: vultum rugasque coëgit, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 33.—

3. Of fluids, etc., to draw in, take in, quaff; draw, draw up: si pocula arente fauce traxerim, had drawn in, i. e. quaffed, Hor. Epod. 14, 4; cf. Ov. M. 15, 330: aquas, Luc. 7, 822: venena ore, id. 9, 934: ubera, id. 3, 351 al.: ex puteis jugibus aquam calidam trahi (videmus), Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25: navigium aquam trahit, draws or lets in water, leaks, Sen. Ira, 2, 10, 5; cf.: sanguinem jumento de cervice, to draw, let, Veg. Vet. 3, 43.—Of smelling: odorem naribus, Phaedr. 3, 1, 4.—Of drawing in the breath, inhaling: auras ore, Ov. M. 2, 230: animam, Plin. 11, 3, 2, 6; cf.: Servilius exiguā in spe trahebat animam, Liv. 3, 6, 8: spiritum, to draw breath, Col. 6, 9, 3; Sen. Ira, 3, 43, 4; Cels. 4, 4; Curt. 3, 6, 10: spiritum extremum, Phaedr. 1, 21, 4: penitus suspiria, to heave sighs, to sigh, Ov. M. 2, 753: vocem imo a pectore, Verg. A. 1, 371.—

4. To take on, assume, acquire, get: Iris Mille trahens varios adverso sole colores, Verg. A. 4, 701: squamam cutis durata trahebat, Ov. M. 3, 675: colorem, id. ib. 2, 236; 14, 393: ruborem, id. ib. 3, 482; 10, 595: calorem, id. ib. 11, 305: lapidis figuram, id. ib. 3, 399: maturitatem, Col. 1, 6, 20: sucum, id. 11, 3, 60: robiginem, Plin. 36, 18, 30, 136. —

5. To drag away violently, to carry off, plunder, = a)/gein kai\ fe/rein: cetera rape, trahe, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 12: rapere omnes, trahere, Sall. C. 11, 4: quibus non humana ulla neque divina obstant, quin ... in opes potentisque trahant exscindant, id. H. 4, 61, 17 Dietsch: sibi quisque ducere, trahere, rapere, id. J. 41, 5: de aliquo trahere spolia, Cic. Balb. 23, 54: praedam ex agris, Liv. 25, 14, 11: tantum jam praedae hostes trahere, ut, etc., id. 10, 20, 3; cf.: pastor cum traheret per freta navibus Idaeis Helenen, Hor. C. 1, 15, 1.—

6. Trahere pecuniam (for distrahere), to make away with, to dissipate, squander: omnibus modis pecuniam trahunt, vexant, Sall. C. 20, 12.—

7. Of drugs, etc., to purge, rcmove, clear away: bilem ex alvo, Plin. 25, 5, 22, 54; 26, 8, 42, 69: pituitam, id. 21, 23, 94, 166: cruditates, pituitas, bilem, id. 32, 9, 31, 95.—

8. Trahere lanam, vellera, etc., to draw out lengthwise, i. e. to spin, manufacture: manibus trahere lanam, Varr. ap. Non. 545, 12: lanam, Juv. 2, 54: vellera digitis, Ov. M. 14, 265: data pensa, id. ib. 13, 511; id. H. 3, 75: Laconicas purpuras, Hor. C. 2, 18, 8.—

II. Trop.,

A. In gen.

1. To draw, draw along; to attract, allure, influence, etc.: trahimur omnes studio laudis et optimus quisque maxime gloriā ducitur, Cic. Arch. 11, 26; cf.: omnes trahimur et ducimur ad cognitionis et scientiae cupiditatem, id. Off. 1, 6, 18: allicere delectatione et viribus trahere, Quint. 5, 14, 29: trahit sua quemque voluptas, Verg. E. 2, 65: aliquem in aliam partem, to bring or gain over, Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2; so, Drusum in partes, Tac. A. 4, 60: civitatem ad regem, Liv. 42, 44, 3: aliquem in suam sententiam, id. 5, 25, 1; cf. also: rem ad Poenos, id. 24, 2, 8; 23, 8, 2: res ad Philippum, id. 32, 19, 2: ni ea res longius nos ab incepto traheret, draw off, divert, Sall. C. 7, 7.—

2. To drag, lead, bring: plures secum in eandem calamitatem, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19: Lucanos ad defectionem, Liv. 25, 16, 6: quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, sequamur, Verg. A. 5, 709: ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt, Cleanth. ap. Sen. Ep. 107, 11.—

3. To draw to, i. e. appropriate, refer, ascribe, set down to, etc.: atque egomet me adeo cum illis una ibidem traho, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 166: St. Quid quod dedisti scortis? Le. Ibidem una traho, id. ib. 2, 4, 10: hi numero avium regnum trahebant, drew to their side, laid claim to, claimed, Liv. 1, 7, 1; cf.: qui captae decus Nolae ad consulem trahunt, id. 9, 28, 6: omnia non bene consulta in virtutem trahebantur, were set down to, referred, attributed, Sall. J. 92, 2: ornatum ipsius (ducis) in superbiam, Tac. H. 2, 20: cuncta Germanici in deterius, id. A. 1, 62 fin.: fortuita ad culpam, id. ib. 4, 64: id ad clementiam, id. ib. 12, 52; cf.: aliquid in religionem, Liv. 5, 23, 6: cur abstinuerit spectaculo ipse, varie trahebant, Tac. A. 1, 76 fin.: in se crimen, Ov. M. 10, 68: spinas Traxit in exemplum, adopted, id. ib. 8, 245. —

4. To drag, distract, etc.: quae meum animum divorse trahunt, Ter. And. 1, 5, 25: trahi in aliam partem mente atque animo, Caes. B. C. 1, 21: Vologeses diversas ad curas trahebatur, Tac. A. 15, 1.—

5. To weigh, ponder, consider: belli atque pacis rationes trahere, Sall. J. 97, 2; cf. id. ib. 84, 4: trahere consilium, to form a decision or determination, id. ib. 98, 3.—

6. To get, obtain, derive: qui majorem ex pernicie et peste rei publicae molestiam traxerit, who has derived, i. e. has received, suffered, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1: qui cognomen ex contumeliā traxerit, id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: nomen e causis, Plin. 15, 14, 15, 51: inde nomen, id. 36, 20, 38, 146: nomen ab illis, Ov. M. 4, 291: originem ab aliquo, to derive, deduce, Plin. 5, 24, 21, 86; 6, 28, 32, 157: scio ab isto initio tractum esse sermonem, i. e. has arisen, Cic. Brut. 6, 21: facetiae, quae multum ex vero traxere, drew, i. e. they were founded largely on truth, Tac. A. 15, 68; cf.: multum ex moribus (Sarmatarum) traxisse, id. G. 46, 2.—

7. Of time, to protract, drag out, linger: afflictus vitam in tenebris luctuque trahebam, Verg. A. 2, 92; so, vitam, Phaedr. 3, 7, 12; 4, 5, 37; Plin. 28, 1, 2, 9: traherent cum sera crepuscula noctem, was bringing on the night, Ov. M. 1, 219: verba, to drag, i. e. to utter with difficulty, Sil. 8, 79.—

8. To draw out, in respect of time; to extend, prolong, lengthen; to protract, put off, delay, retard (cf.: prolato, extendo): sin trahitur bellum, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2; cf. Liv. 5, 10, 7; Sall. J. 23, 2: trahere omnia, to interpose delays of all kinds, id. ib. 36, 2; Ov. M. 12, 584: pugnam aliquamdiu, Liv. 25, 15, 14: dum hoc naturae Corpus ... manebit incolume, comitem aevi sui laudem Ciceronis trahet, Vell. 2, 66, 5: obsidionem in longius, Quint. 1, 10, 48; cf.: rem de industriā in serum, Liv. 32, 35, 4: omnia, id. 32, 36, 2: jurgiis trahere tempus, id. 32, 27, 1: tempus, Auct. B. Alex. 38, 2: moram ficto languore, Ov. M. 9, 767: (legati) querentes, trahi se a Caesare, that they were put off, delayed, Suet. Tib. 31 fin.; so, aliquem sermone, quousque, etc., Val. Max. 4, 4, 1: Marius multis diebus et laboribus consumptis anxius trahere cum animo suo, omitteretne inceptum, Sall. J. 93, 1.—

9. Rarely neutr., to drag along, to last, endure. si quis etiam in eo morbo diutius traxit, Cels. 2, 8 med.: decem annos traxit ista dominatio, Flor. 4, 2, 12.—Hence, tractus, a, um, P. a., drawn on, i. e. proceeding continuously, flowing, fluent, of language: genus orationis fusum atque tractum, Cic. de Or. 2, 15, 64: in his (contione et hortatione) tracta quaedam et fluens expetitur, id. Or. 20, 66.—

B. Subst.: tractum, i, n., any thing drawn out at length.

1. A flock of wool drawn out for spinning: tracta de niveo vellere dente, Tib. 1, 6, 80.—

2. A long piece of dough pulled out in making pastry, Cato, R. R. 76, 1; 76, 4; Apic. 2, 1; 4, 3; 5, 1 al.—Called also tracta, ae, f., Plin. 18, 11, 27, 106.