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ap-porto (adp- , Ritschl, Fleck., Lachm., Baiter; app- , Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I.to bring, carry, conduct, convey to; lit. and trop. (most freq. in ante-class. per. and in Cic.; in the latter only in its lit. signif.; and in poetry perh. only anteclass., later replaced by adferre; “syn.: importo, adfero, adveho, inveho): alia adportabunt filiae,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 34: “divitias domum,id. Stich. 3, 1, 11: “Quid nam adportas?Ter. And. 5, 2, 17; id. Phorm. prol. 24 (cf. Plaut. Cas. prol. 70); so id. And. 1, 1, 46; id. Ad. 5, 4, 2; id. Heaut. 3, 1, 18; 4, 4, 25: “insolitam rem auribus adportare,Lucr. 5, 100: “bonum adporto nuntium,Vulg. 2 Reg. 18, 31: “morbos,Lucr. 5, 221, and perh. not elsewhere: si nihil quicquam aliud vitī adportes tecum, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 8, 25, and Non. p. 247, 6: “cochleas de Illyrico,Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 4: “signa populo Romano apportare,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 21: “multa undique adportans,id. Off. 1, 42, 151: “Indicum adportatur ex Indiā,Plin. 35, 6, 25, § 43; Suet. Dom. 6.—In Plaut., adporto adventum, to bring an arrival, for advenio, to arrive, come to: “Huc autem quom extemplo adventum adporto,Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 5.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.55
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 3.1
    • Plautus, Stichus, 3.1
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 18.31
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 1.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.100
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.221
    • Suetonius, Domitianus, 6
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.43
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 8
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.42
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