I. To put or place into, to plant, fix, set (cf.: instruo, informo; “class.): vestigia nuda sinistri Instituere pedis,” Verg. A. 7, 690.— Trop.: argumenta in pectus multa institui, I have put, i. e. formed in my heart, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 2: quemquamne hominem in animum instituere, aut parare, i. e. to set his heart on (al. in animo), Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 13.—
2. To set up, erect, plant, establish, arrange: “vestigia,” Lucr. 4, 474: “arborem,” Suet. Galb. 1: “pratum,” Col. 2, 18, 3: “jugera tercenta, ubi institui vineae possunt,” Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 67: “portorium vini,” to lay on, impose, id. Font. 5: “instituit officinam Syracusis in regia maximam,” founded, erected, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54: “mercatum,” id. Phil. 3, 12: “codicem et conscribere,” id. Rosc. Com. 2: “bibliothecam,” Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 10. —
B. In gen., to make, fabricate, construct: “magnus muralium pilorum numerus instituitur,” Caes. B. G. 5, 39: “naves,” to build, id. ib. 5, 11: “pontem,” to construct, id. ib. 4, 18: “turres,” id. ib. 5, 52: “amphora coepit institui,” Hor. A. P. 22: “convivia,” Suet. Tit. 7: “longiorem sermonem,” to hold, Caes. B. G. 5, 37: “delectum,” id. B. C. 1, 16: “remiges ex provincia,” to obtain, procure, id. B. G. 3, 9.—
2. To prepare, furnish, provide (viands, food, a feast, etc.): “dapes,” Verg. A. 7, 109: “convivium,” Just. 12, 13, 6: “convivia jucunda,” Suet. Tit. 7.—
II. Trop.
A. To institute, found, establish, organize, set up (of institutions, governments, etc.); cf.: “ibi regnum magnum institutum,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 30: “quo in magistratu non institutum est a me regnum, sed repressum,” Cic. Sull. 7, 21: so, “magistratum,” id. Att. 6, 1, 8: “de civitatibus instituendis littera,” id. de Or. 1, 19, 86: “civitatis formam,” Tac. H. 4, 8: “is id regnum cum fratribus suis instituit,” Lact. 1, 13, 14: “ab instituta gente,” Amm. 17, 13, 27: “collegium figulorum,” Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 159: “aerarium militare,” Suet. Aug. 49: “stipendia,” id. Claud. 5.—So of holidays, games, etc.: “ferias diesque festos,” Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 284: “Saturnalia institutus festus dies,” Liv. 2, 21, 2: “sacros ludos,” Ov. M. 1, 446.—
B. To institute, appoint one, esp. as heir or to an office: “qui me cum tutorem, tum etiam secundum heredem instituerit,” Cic. Fam. 13, 61: “Populum Romanum tutorem,” id. de Or. 1, 53, 228: “magistratum,” id. Att. 6, 1; Suet. Caes. 83; id. Vitel. 6; id. Claud. 1; Just. 7, 2, 5; Plin. Ep. 5, 1, 9.—
C. With ut, to ordain that: Arcesilas instituit, ut ii, qui, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 2: “ut fierent quaestores),” Liv. 4, 4; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—With the simple subj.: “instituit, quotannis subsortitio a praetore fieret,” Suet. Caes. 41.—
D. To take upon one's self, to undertake: “ubi cenas hodie, si hanc rationem instituis?” Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 26: “cum Zenone Arcesilas sibi omne certamen instituit,” Cic. Ac. 1, 12.—
E. To undertake, begin, commence: “id negotium institutum est,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 103: “si diligentiam, quam instituisti, adhibueris,” id. ib. 16, 20: “perge tenere istam viam, quam instituisti,” Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 14: “ad hunc ipsum quaedam institui,” Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 2: “historia nec institui potest sine, etc.,” id. Leg. 1, 3, 9: “iter,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 5.— With inf.: “ut primum Velia navigare coepi, institui Topica conscribere,” Cic. Fam. 7, 19 init.: “flagitare,” id. ib. 10, 16, 1: “si quae non nupta mulier virorum alienissimorum conviviis uti instituerit,” begun, made it a practice, id. Cael. 20, 49: “recitare omnia,” Suet. Aug. 84. —
F. Of troops, to draw up, arrange: “tu actionem instituis, ille aciem instruit,” Cic. Mur. 9: “quartae aciei quam instituerat, signum dedit,” Caes. B. C. 3, 93, 5.—
G. To provide, procure: “quaestum,” Cic. Quint. 3: “aliquos sibi amicos,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 21: “animum ad cogitandum,” apply, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 10. —
H. To purpose, determine, resolve upon: “in praesentia (Caesar) similem rationem operis instituit,” Caes. B. C. 1, 42, 1. —With inf.: “senex scribere historias instituit,” Nep. Cat. 3: “quaerere tempus ejus interficiendi,” id. Alcib. 5: “montanos oppugnare,” Liv. 28, 46: “habere secum,” Caes. B. G. 7, 13, 1: “coronas ad ipsum mittere,” Suet. Ner. 22.— With object-clause: “frumentum plebi dari,” Vell. 2, 6, 3.—
I. To order, govern, administer, regulate: “sapienter vitam instituit,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 40: “libri de civitatibus instituendis,” Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 86: “mores,” Quint. 1, 2, 2: “familiam,” id. 10, 3, 9.—
K. To teach, instruct, train up, educate: “sic tu instituis adulescentes?” Cic. Cael. 17, 39: oratorem, Quint.1, 1, 21.—With inf.: “Latine loqui,” Col. 1, 1, 12: “Pan primus calamos cerā conjungere plures Instituit,” Verg. E. 2, 32; 5, 30; id. G. 1, 148: “amphora fumum bibere instituta Consule Tullo,” Hor. C. 3, 8, 11: “cum tibiis canere voce instituit,” Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204.—With abl.: “aliquem disciplinis Graecis,” Quint. 1, 1, 12: “lyrā,” id. 1, 10, 13: “disciplina Romana,” Suet. Caes. 24.—With ad: “aliquem ad dicendum,” Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162: “aliquem artibus et moribus,” Juv. 14, 74: “filios instituere atque erudire ad majorum instituta,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69; § 161: “ad lectionem,” Quint. 1, 7, 17.— With ut or ne and subj.: “quem tu a puero sic instituisses, ut nobili ne gladiatori quidem faveret,” Cic. Quint. 21, 69: “pueros, ut, etc.,” Suet. Tib. 44; id. Aug. 64: “nos, ne quem coleremus, etc.,” Sall. J. 14, 18.—Of animals: “boves,” Col. 6, 2, 8 al.
