I.v. infra; attinge = attingam, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.; concerning attigo, āre, v. fin.), to touch, come in contact with; constr. with the acc.; poet. with ad.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: mento summam aquam, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: vestem, Att. ap. Non. p. 75, 32: “Egone Argivum imperium attingam,” id. Trag. Rel. p. 166 Rib.: “suaviter (omnia) attingunt,” Lucr. 4, 623: “nec enim ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,” Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6: “prius quam aries murum attigisset,” Caes. B. G. 2, 32: “pedibus terram,” Nep. Eum. 5, 5: “quisquis (vas) attigerit,” Vulg. Lev. 15, 23: “nos nihil tuorum attigimus,” id. Gen. 26, 29: “(medicus) pulsum venarum attigit,” Tac. A. 6, 50: “se esse possessorem soli, quod primum Divus Augustus nascens attigisset,” Suet. Aug. 5 (cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 46: Tactaque nascenti corpus haberet humus, acc. to the practice of laying new-born children upon the ground; v. tollo).—Poet.: (Callisto) miles erat Phoebes, nec Maenalon attigit (nor did there touch, set foot on) ulla Gratior hac Triviae, Ov. M. 2, 415: “usque ad caelum attingebat stans in terrā,” Vulg. Sap. 18, 16.—
B. With partic. access. ideas.
1. To touch by striking, to strike; rarely in a hostile manner, to attack, assault: “ne me attingas,” Plaut. As. 2, 2, 106; “ne attigas me,” id. Truc. 2, 2, 21: “ne attigas puerum istac caussā,” id. Bacch. 3, 3, 41 (quoted by Non. p. 75, 33): “Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignumst liberam,” Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 91.—Of lightning: ICTV. FVLMINIS. ARBORES. ATTACTAE. ARDVERINT., Fragm. Fratr. Arval. Inscr. Orell. 961; cf. “Fest. s. v. scribonianum, p. 333 Müll., and s. v. obstitum, p. 193: si Vestinus attingeretur, i. e. ei bellum indiceretur,” Liv. 8, 29; so Suet. Ner. 38.—
3. To touch in eating, to taste, crop: “nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam,” Verg. E. 5, 26.—
4. Of local relations, to come to a place, to approach, reach, arrive at (class.; “esp. freq. in the histt.): aedīs ne attigatis,” Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 37: “ut primum Asiam attigisti,” Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8: “cum primis navibus Britanniam attigit,” Caes. B. G. 4, 23: “Siciliam,” Nep. Dion, 5, 3: “Syriam ac legiones,” Tac. A. 2, 55: “saltuosos locos,” id. ib. 4, 45: “Urbem,” id. Or. 7 fin.: “In paucis diebus quam Capreus attigit etc.,” Suet. Tib. 60; id. Calig. 44; id. Vesp. 4 al.—
5. Transf., to touch, lie near, border upon, be contiguous to: “Theseus ... Attigit injusti regis Gortynia tecta,” Cat. 64, 75: “Cappadociae regio, quae Ciliciam attingeret,” Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4; id. Pis. 16 fin.: “(stomachus) utrāque ex parte tonsillas attingens, etc.,” id. N. D. 2, 54, 135: “eorum fines Nervii attingebant,” Caes. B. G. 2, 15: “ITEM. COLLEGIA. QVAE. ATTINGVNT. EIDEM. FORO,” Inscr. Orell. 3314: “attingere parietem,” Vulg. Ezech. 41, 6.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to touch, affect, reach: “nec desiderium nos attigit,” Lucr. 3, 922 (adficit, Lachm.): “ante quam voluptas aut dolor attigerit,” Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 16: “nimirum me alia quoque causa delectat, quae te non attingit,” id. Leg. 2, 1, 3: “quo studio providit, ne qua me illius temporis invidia attingeret,” id. Fam. 3, 10, 10: “si qua de Pompeio nostro tuendo ... cura te attingit,” id. Att. 9, 11, A: “erant perpauci, quos ea infamia attingeret, Liv 27, 11, 6: cupidus attingere gaudia,” to feel, Prop. 1, 19, 9: “vox, sonus, attigit aures,” Val. Fl. 2, 452; Claud. B. Get: 412; Manil. 1, 326.—
B. Esp.
1. To touch upon in speaking, etc., to mention slightly: “paucis rem,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 11: “summatim attingere,” Lucr. 3, 261: “ut meos quoque attingam,” Cat. 39, 13: “quod perquam breviter perstrinxi atque attigi,” Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201; id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.: “si tantummodo summas attigero,” Nep. Pelop. 1, 1: “invitus ea, tamquam vulnera, attingo, sed nisi tacta tractataque sanari non possunt,” Liv. 28, 27: “ut seditionem attigit,” Tac. A. 1, 35: “familiae (Galbae) breviter attingam,” Suet. Galb. 3 al. —
2. To touch, i. e. to undertake, enter upon some course of action (esp. mental), to apply one's self to, be occupied with, engage in, to take in hand, manage: “quae isti rhetores ne primoribus quidem labris attigissent,” Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12; id. Arch. 8: “egomet, qui sero ac leviter Graecas litteras attigissem,” id. de Or. 1, 18, 82: “orationes,” id. Or. 13, 41: “poëticen,” Nep. Att. 18, 5; so Suet. Aug. 85: “liberales disciplinas omnes,” id. Ner. 52: “studia,” id. Gram. 9: “ut primum forum attigi, i. e. accessi, adii,” applied myself to public affairs, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3: “arma,” Liv. 3, 19: “militiam resque bellicas,” Suet. Calig. 43: “curam rei publicae,” id. Tib. 13: “ad Venerem seram,” Ov. A. A. 2, 701.—
3. (Acc. to I. B. 4.) To arrive somewhere: “quod ab illo attigisset nuntius,” Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 19 (cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 3: si a me tetigit nuntius).—
4. (Acc. to I. B. 5.) To come near to in quality, to be similar; or to belong to, appertain to, to concern, relate to: “quae nihil attingunt ad rem nec sunt usui,” Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 32: “haec quemque attigit,” id. ib. 1, 1, 20: “attingit animi naturam corporis similitudo,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30; id. Fam. 13, 7, 4; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1: “quae non magis legis nomen attingunt, quam si latrones aliqua sanxerint,” id. Leg. 2, 5: “Segestana, Centuripina civitas, quae cum officiis, fide, vetustate, tum etiam cognatione populi Romani nomen attingunt,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 32: “(labor) non attingit deum,” id. N. D. 1, 9, 22: “primus ille (locus), qui in veri cognitione consistit, maxime naturam attingit humanam,” id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Tusc. 5, 33, 93; id. Fin. 5, 9.—*
5. Si quid eam humanitus attigisset (for the usu. euphemism, accidisset), if any misfortune had happened to her, App. Mag. p. 337.!*? Ne me attiga atque aufer manum, Turp. ap. Non. p. 75, 30 dub. (Rib. here reads attigas, Com. Rel. p. 98): custodite istunc, ne attigat, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 105 Rib.
