I.to grant or award a thing to one, as judge, to adjudge (opp. abjudico).—With acc. and dat.
I. Lit.: me est aequum frui fraternis armis mihique adjudicarier, Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42: “regnum Ptolemaeo,” Cic. Agr. 2, 17; 2, 43: “mulierem Veneri in servitutem,” id. Div. in Caecil. 17, 56: “Bruto legiones,” id. Phil. 10, 6; so id. Off. 1, 10; Liv. 3, 72; Val. Max. 7, 3; Suet. Aug. 32 al.: “nemo dubitabat, quin domus nobis esset adjudicata,” Cic. Att. 42; so Caes. B. G. 7, 37; cf. Sen. Hipp. 109.—And poet. of Augustus: “si quid abest (i. e. dicioni Romanorum nondum subjectum) Italis adjudicat armis,” i. e. like a judge, he subjects the nations to the Roman sway, merely by his arbitrary sentence, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 57: “causam alicui,” to decide in one's favor, Cic. de Or. 2, 29, 129.—
II. In gen., to assign or ascribe a thing to one: “Pompeius saepe hujus mihi salutem imperii adjudicavit,” has ascribed to me, Cic. Att. 1, 19: “optimum saporem ostreis Lucrinis adjudicavit,” conceded, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168.!*? For adjudicato in Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 6, Ritschl reads tu judicato.
