I.to associate, add or join to, to annex, assign, bestow, give (class., but rare in the poets; syn.: tribuo, assigno, do, ascribo, addico).
I. In gen.
A. Lit.: “pueros attribue ei, quot et quos videbitur,” Cic. Att. 12, 30: “video, cui Apulia sit attributa,” assigned as a province, id. Cat. 2, 3, 6: “insulae Rhodiis attributae,” annexed, subjected, id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11: “Camunni finitimis adtributi municipiis,” Plin. 3, 20, 24, § 134: “equos gladiatoribus,” Caes. B. C. 1, 14: “quae (juventus) praesidio ejus loci adtributa erat,” Liv. 24, 21: pontifici sacra omnia. id. 1, 20: possessionem, Vulg. Num. 36, 12: “aliquem,” ib. Deut. 29, 26.—Of the assigning of state domains or other possessions belonging to the public treasures: “bona oppressorum in Vesvio restitutioni afflictarum civitatium attribuit,” Suet. Tit. 8 al.—Hence of appropriations from the exchequer: “pecuniam alicui,” Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 16: “ad aliquam rem pecuniam dare, attribuere, solvere,” id. ib. 14, 14 fin.; “so Liv 40, 51.—Also of private assignments: Faberius si venerit, videbis, ut tantum attribuatur, quantum debetur,” Cic. Att. 13, 2, 1.—Hence also aliquem, to assign, make over to any one: “attributos quod appellas, valde probo,” i. e. my debtors, to whom I have referred you, Cic. Att. 13, 22.—
B. Trop.: “timor, quem mihi natura pudorque meus attribuit,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 4: “Suus cuique attributus est error,” Cat. 22, 20: “si alicui rei hujus modi, legi, loco, urbi, monumento oratio attribuetur,” i. e. if these are represented as speaking, Cic. Inv 1, 52, 100: “curam alicujus rei adtribuere,” Liv. 26, 49.—
II. Esp.
A. To join in addition, to add: “non attribuere ad amissionem amicorum miseriam nostram,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 30, 73.—
B. Aliquid alicui, to attribute or impute to one, to charge with, ascribe to (cf. ascribo): “si eruditius videbitur disputare, attribuito Graecis litteris,” Cic. Sen. 1, 3: “Hoc tu si cupidius factum existimas, Caesari attribues,” id. de Or. 2, 3, 14: “bonos exitus dis immortalibus,” id. N. D. 3, 37, 89: “aliis causam calamitatis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41.—
C. T. t., to lay as a tax or tribute: “his rebus omnibus terni in milia aeris adtribuerentur,” Liv. 39, 44.—Hence, attrĭbūtus (adt- ), a, um, P. a., lit. that is ascribed or attributed to a thing; hence, subst.: attrĭbūtum , i, n.
A. (Acc. to I.) Money assigned from the public treasury, Varr. L. L. 5, § 181 Müll.—
B. In gram. lang., a predicate, attribute: “Omnes res confirmantur aut ex eo, quod personis, aut ex eo, quod negotiis est attributum,” Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 34; 1, 25, 36 sqq.; Gell. 4, 1 fin.
