I.v. freq. [adjuvo] (ante-class.; esp. in Plaut. and Terence, and in later Lat.), to help, to be serviceable to, to assist: aliquem, Att. ap. Non. 424, 2: “istocine pacto me adjutas?” Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 81; id. Cas. 3, 3, 17; id. Truc. 2, 5, 26; 2, 7, 8: “Pamphilum,” Ter. And. 1, 3, 4; id. Heaut. 3, 1, 7; 2, 35; id. Ad. prol. 16; id. Phorm. prol. 34: “funus,” id. ib. 1, 2, 49.—With two acc.: “id adjuta me, quo id fiat facilius,” Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 70.—With dat. pers.: adjuta mihi, Pac. ap. Don. ad Ter. Ad. prol. 16; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 24.—Also on a coin: “deus adjuta Romanis, Eckh. D. N. 8, p. 223: saltem nobis adjutāsses,” Petr. Fragm. Trag. 62 Burm.—Pass.: “adjutamur enim atque alimur certis ab rebus,” Lucr. 1, 812.
adjūto , āvi, ātum, 1,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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