I.to lead or bring into a place, to conduct into or within (syn.: induco, immitto).
I. Lit.
(α).
With acc.: “gregem venalium,” Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 4: “noctu milites,” Sall. J. 12, 4: “Volturcium cum legatis,” id. C. 46, 6: “praesidium,” Caes. B. C. 1, 13, 2; cf. “se,” Curt. 3, 12, 10: “aliquem tecum,” id. 8, 8, 19: “quod oppidum cohortibus introductis tenebat,” Caes. B. C. 1, 12, 3.—
(β).
With in and acc.: “si suas copias Aedui in fines Bellovacorum introduxerint,” Caes. B. G. 2, 5, 3: “legationes in senatum,” Liv. 10, 45, 4: “in senatum aliquem ad agendas gratias,” Suet. Oth. 2: “praesidium in urbem Chium,” Curt. 4, 1, 17.—
II. Trop.
A. To bring in, introduce: “philosophiam in domos,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 4: “aliquem in possessionem,” Dig. 25, 5, 2: “ambitionem in senatum,” to introduce, Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 19; Dig. 9, 4, 26: “senatusconsulta,” ib. 29, 5, 1. —
2. Esp., in speaking or writing, to introduce a person or subject: “Catonem senem disputantem,” Cic. Lael. 1, 3: “sermones,” Quint. 9, 2, 30: “fictam narrationem,” id. 4, 2, 19; cf.: “pictores animas sensibus auctas,” represented, Lucr. 3, 630.—
B. To bring forward, maintain: “non modo natum mundum introduxit, sed etiam paene manu factum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 20: “introducebat, summum bonum esse, frui,” id. Ac. 2, 42, 131: “deliberationem,” id. Off. 3, 3, 10: “narrationem,” Quint. 4, 2, 19 al.—
C. To institute, originate: “ex hujus modi principio consuetudo aestimationis introducta est,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82, § 189: “hac introducta consuetudine,” id. Fam. 16, 21, 3: “ejusmodi deliberationem,” id. Off. 3, 3, 12: “consuetudinem,” Val. Max. 2, 6, 5: “novum in republica exemplum,” to set an example, Caes. B. C. 1, 7, 2: “exemplum a patricio homine introductum,” Liv. 4, 16, 4: “leges perniciosissimas reipublicae,” Val. Max. 9, 5, 1: “ritus novos,” Lact. 1, 22, 19: “novas superstitiones,” Quint. 4, 4, 5.
