I. A.. Lit., to take or receive a thing with knowledge (and approbation), to approve, receive as true: “cum jussisset populus Romanus aliquid, si id ascivissent socii populi ac Latini, etc.,” Cic. Balb. 8, 20: “quas (leges) Latini voluerunt, asciverunt,” id. ib. 8, 20, § “21: quibus (scitis) adscitis susceptisque,” id. Leg. 2, 5: “tu vero ista ne adsciveris neve fueris commenticiis rebus assensus,” id. Ac. 2, 40, 125: “ne labar ad opinionem, et aliquid adsciscam et comprobem incognitum,” id. ib. 2, 45, 138.—
B. Of persons, to receive or admit one in some capacity (as citizen, ally, son, etc.): “dominos acrīs adsciscunt,” Lucr. 5, 87; 6, 63: “perficiam ut hunc A. Licinium non modo non segregandum, cum sit civis, a numero civium, verum etiam, si non esset, putetis asciscendum fuisse,” Cic. Arch. 2 fin.; cf. id. Balb. 13: “[aliā (civitate) ascitā],” Nep. Att. 3, 1 Halm: “Numam Pompilium ... regem alienigenam sibi ipse populus adscivit eumque ad regnandum Romam Curibus adscivit,” Cic. Rep. 2, 13: “aliquem patronum,” id. Pis. 11, 25: “socios sibi ad id bellum Osismios, etc., adsciscunt,” Caes. B. G. 3, 9, 10; so id. ib. 1, 5, 4: “socius adscitus,” Sall. C. 47, 1: “aliquem ducem, Auct. B. Alex. 59, 2: qui non asciverit ultro Dardanium Aenean generumque acceperit urbi,” Verg. A. 11, 471: “gener inde provecto annis adscitus,” Liv. 21, 2; so Tac. H. 1, 59: “ascivit te filium non vitricus, sed princeps,” Plin. Pan. 7, 4: “tribuni centurionesque adsciscebantur,” Tac. H. 2, 5 fin.: “aliquem successorem,” Suet. Tib. 23 fin. al.—In the histt. also with in (in civitatem, societatem, senatum, nomen, etc.): “adsciti simul in civitatem et patres,” Liv. 6, 40, 4: “simul in civitatem Romanam et in familias patriciorum adscitus,” Tac. A. 11, 24: “aliquem in numerum patriciorum,” id. ib. 11, 25: “inter patricios,” id. Agr. 9: “Chauci in commilitium adsciti sunt,” id. A. 1, 60: “aliquem in penates suos,” id. H. 1, 15: “aliquem in nomen,” id. A. 3, 30; Suet. Claud. 39: “aliquem in bona et nomen,” id. Galb. 17.—
II. Transf., in gen., to take or receive a person to one's self; of things, to appropriate to one's self, adopt (diff. from adjungere and assumere, by the accessory idea of exertion and mediation, or of personal reflection; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 3, 9, 10; Sall. C. 24, 3).
1. Of persons: “nemo oppressus aere alieno fuit, quem non ad hoc incredibile sceleris foedus asciverit,” Cic. Cat. 2, 4 fin.: “exsulibus omnium civitatium ascitis, receptis latronibus, etc.,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 30: “eā tempestate plurimos cujusque generis homines adscivisse dicitur,” Sall. C. 24, 3: “Veientes re secundā elati voluntarios undique ad spem praedae adsciverunt,” Liv. 4, 31, 3; Tac. H. 2, 8: “in conscientiam facinoris pauci adsciti,” id. ib. 1, 25.—Poet.: asciscere for asciscere se or ascisci, to join or unite one's self to one (cf.. Accingunt omnes operi, Verg. A. 2, 235): “ascivere tuo comites sub numine divae centum omnes nemorum,” Grat. Cyn. 16.—
2. Of things: Quae neque terra sibi adscivit nec maxumus aether, which neither the earth appropriates to itself nor etc., Lucr. 5, 473: Jovisque numen Mulciberi adscivit manus, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: “sibi oppidum asciscere,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10: “Ceres et Libera ... quarum sacra populus Romanus a Graecis ascita et accepta tantā religione tuetur, etc.,” id. ib. 2, 5, 72; so id. Har Resp. 13, 27; Ov. M. 15, 625 Heins., where Merk. reads acciverit (cf. Web. ad Luc. 8, 831): “peregrinos ritus,” Liv. 1, 20: “Spem si quam ascitis Aetolum habuistis in armis,” Verg. A. 11, 308: “opimum quoddam et tamquam adipatae dictionis genus,” Cic. Or 8, 25: nova (verba) adsciscere, * Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 119: “quod ipsa natura adsciscat et reprobet,” Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23 (B. and K., sciscat et probet): “adsciscere aut probare amicitiam aut justitiam,” id. ib. 3, 21, 70; id. Leg. 1, 11: “illa, quae prima sunt adscita naturā,” id. Fin. 3, 5, 17 (cf. Beier ad Cic. Off. 3, 3, 13, p. 203): hanc consuetudinem lubenter ascivimus, id. Brut. 57, 209. —
3. Sibi, like arrogo, to assume or arrogate something to one's self (very rare): “eos illius expertes esse prudentiae, quam sibi asciscerent,” Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87: “eloquentiae laudem uni sibi,” Tac. A. 14, 52; cf. Cic. Dom. 36, 95.—*
B. To order, decree, or approve also or further, = etiam sciscere: “alterum (genus sacerdotum) quod interpretetur fatidicorum et vatium ecfata incognita, quae eorum senatus populusque adsciverit,” Cic. Leg. 2, 8, ubi v. Moser.— ascītus , P. a. (opp. nativus, innatus, insitus), derived, assumed, foreign: “in eo nativum quemdam leporem esse, non ascitum,” Nep. Att. 4, 1 Halm: “proles,” Stat. S. 1, 1, 23; “genitos esse vos mihi, non ascitos milites credite,” Curt. 10, 3, 6: “nec petit ascitas dapes,” Ov. F. 6, 172.
