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assigno (ads- , B. and K., Halm, Weissenb., Jahn, K. and H.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
I. In gen.
A. Lit., to mark out or appoint to one, to assign; hence also, to distribute, allot, give by assigning, as t. t. of the division of public lands to the colonists (cf. assignatio; “syn.: ascribo, attribuo): uti agrum eis militibus, legioni Martiae et legioni quartae ita darent, adsignarent, ut quibus militibus amplissime dati, adsignati essent,Cic. Phil. 5, 19 fin.; so id. ib. 2, 17, 43; id. Agr. 3, 3, 12: “qui (triumviri) ad agrum venerant adsignandum,Liv. 21, 25; 26, 21; Sic. Fl. p. 18 Goes.—
B. Transf., to assign something to some one, to confer upon: “mihi ex agro tuo tantum adsignes, quantum corpore meo occupari potest,Cic. Att. 3, 19, 3: munus humanum adsignatum a deo, id. Rep. 6, 15 fin.: “apparitores a praetore adsignati,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25: “ordines,id. Pis. 36, 88: “quem cuique ordinem adsignari e re publicā esset, eum adsignare,Liv. 42, 33: “equum publicum,id. 39, 19; so id. 5, 7: “equiti certus numerus aeris est adsignatus,id. ib.: aspera bella componunt, agros adsignant, oppida condunt, to assign dwellingplaces to those roaming about (with ref. to I. A.), * Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 8: “natura avibus caelum adsignavit,appointed, allotted, Plin. 10, 50, 72, § 141: “de adsignandis libertis,Dig. 38, 4. 1 sq.: adsignavit eam vivam, παρέστησεν, he presented her, Vulg. Act. 9, 41 al.
C. Trop., to ascribe, attribute, impute to one as a crime, or to reckon as a service (in the last sense not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only in the first signification).
a. In mal. part.: “nec vero id homini tum quisquam, sed tempori adsignandum putavit,Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27: “haec si minus apta videntur huic sermoni, Attico adsigna, qui etc.,id. Brut. 19, 74: “ne hoc improbitati et sceleri meo potius quam imprudentiae miseriaeque adsignes,id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 4; so id. Fam. 6, 7, 3; id. Att. 6, 1, 11; 10, 4, 6; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2: “petit, ne unius amentiam civitati adsignarent,Liv. 35, 31' permixtum vehiculis agmen ac pleraque fortuita fraudi suae adsignantes, Tac. H. 2, 60; Nigid. ap. Gell. 4, 9, 2; and without dat.: me culpam fortunae adsignare, calamitatem crimini dare; “me amissionem classis obicere, etc.,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50 Zumpt.—
II. Esp.
A. With the access. idea of object, design, to commit, consign, give over a thing to one to keep or take care of (rare, mostly post - Aug.): “quibus deportanda Romam Regina Juno adsignata erat,Liv. 5, 22' Eumenem adsignari custodibus praecepit, Just. 14, 4 fin.; Dig. 18, 1, 62; 4, 9, 1.—Trop.: “bonos juvenes adsignare famae,Plin. Ep. 6, 23, 2; so Sen. Ep. 110.—
B. To make a mark upon something, to seal it (post-Aug.): “adsigna, Marce, tabellas,Pers. 5, 81: “subscribente et adsignante domino,Dig. 45, 1, 126; 26, 8, 20: cum adsignavero iis fructum hunc, shall have sealed and sent, Vulg. Rom. 15, 28.—Trop.: “verbum in clausulā positum adsignatur auditori et infigitur,is impressed upon, Quint. 9, 4, 29.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (31):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 10.18.2
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 6.7.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 3.19.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.1.11
    • New Testament, Romans, 15.28
    • Cicero, Philippics, 5.19
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 36.88
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.61
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.131
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 3.3.12
    • Cicero, For Rabirius Postumus, 10.27
    • New Testament, Acts, 9.41
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.60
    • Tacitus, Germania, 14
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 25.26
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 21
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 33
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 28, 42.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 31
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 22
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 25
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 19
    • Cicero, De Republica, 6.15
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.29
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 4.9.2
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 9.9
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 110
    • Persius, Saturae, 5
    • Cicero, Brutus, 19.74
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