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trādō (old also trānsdō, T.), didī, ditus, ere

trans+do, to give up, hand over, deliver, transmit, surrender, consign : ut arma per manūs necessario traderentur, Cs.: se hostibus, Cs.: nominare cui poculum tradituri sint: pecuniam regiam quaestoribus, L.: pueros magistris, O.: testamentum tibi legendum, H.: urbem, L.: armis traditis, Cs.: transdere hominem in otium, i. e. drive , T.To deliver, commit, intrust, confide : ei te: totum denique hominem tibi: hos (obsides) Aeduis custodiendos tradit, Cs.To surrender treacherously, betray : causam advorsariis, T.: quos tradituros sperabas, vides iudicare.—Fig., to give up, surrender, hand over, deliver, intrust : quae dicam memoriae: possessionem Galliae sibi, Cs.: Vercassivellauno summa imperi traditur, Cs.: tristitiam et metūs Tradam protervis in mare Portare ventis, H.—With pron reflex., to give oneself up, yield, surrender, devote oneself : se totos voluptatibus: te in disciplinam meam.— To make over, transmit, leave, bequeath (cf. lēgo): posteris inimicitias: traditumque inde fertur, ut in senatum vocarentur, it is said that from this arose the custom , etc., L.To hand down, transmit, pass on, relate, narrate, recount : hunc (clamorem) excipere et proxumis tradere, Cs.: pugnae memoriam posteris, L.: ipsum regem tradunt . . . operatum iis sacris se abdidisse, L.: qui (Aristides) unus omnium iustissimus fuisse traditur: sic enim est traditum, such is the tradition : ut Isocratem dixisse traditum est: convertentem se . . . traditur memoriae cecidisse, L.—Of a teacher, to deliver, propose, propound, teach : ea, quae dialectici nunc tradunt et docent: ad omnia imitanda, quae ab quoque traduntur, Cs.: virtutem hominibus: multa de sideribus iuventuti, Cs.

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