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af-fĕro (better adf- ), attŭli (adt-, better att-), allātum (adl-), afferre (adf-),
I.v. a.; constr. aliquid ad aliquem or alicui.
I. In gen., to bring, take, carry or convey a thing to a place (of portable things, while adducere denotes the leading or conducting of men, animals, etc.), lit. and trop.
A. Lit.: “lumen,Enn. Ann. 1, 40: “viginti minas,Plaut. As. 1, 3, 78; 1, 3, 87 al.: “adtuli hunc.—Quid, adtulisti?—Adduxi volui dicere,id. Ps. 2, 4, 21: “tandem bruma nives adfert,Lucr. 5, 746: adlatus est acipenser, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12: “adfer huc scyphos,Hor. Epod. 9, 33: “nuces,Juv. 5, 144: “cibum pede ad rostrum veluti manu,Plin. 10, 46, 63, § 129: “pauxillum aquae,Vulg. Gen. 18, 4: “caput ejus,ib. Marc. 6, 28.—With de in part. sense: “adferte nobis de fructibus terrae,Vulg. Num. 13, 21; ib. Joan. 21, 10 (as lit. rendering of the Greek).—So of letters: “adferre litteras, ad aliquem or alicui,Cic. Att. 8, 6; id. Imp. Pomp. 2; Liv. 22, 11 al.: adferre se ad aliquem locum, to betake one's self to a place, to go or come to (opp. auferre se ab aliquo, to withdraw from, to leave, only poet.): “huc me adfero,Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 6; Ter. And. 4, 5, 12 Bentl.: “Fatis huc te poscentibus adfers,Verg. A. 8, 477: “sese a moenibus,id. ib. 3, 345.—So pass. adferri: “urbem adferimur,are driven, come, Verg. A. 7, 217; “and adferre pedem: abite illuc, unde malum pedem adtulistis,id. Cat. 14, 21.— To bring near, extend, = porrigo (eccl. Lat.): “adfer manum tuam,reach hither, Vulg. Joan. 20, 27.—
B. Trop., to bring to, upon, in a good or bad sense.
(β). In mal. part.: “bellum in patriam,Ov. M. 12, 5: “nisi etiam illuc pervenerint (canes), ut in dominum adferant dentes,to use their teeth against their master, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 9: “adferam super eos mala,Vulg. Jer. 23, 12: “Quam accusationem adfertis adversus hominem hunc?id. Joan. 18, 29: quod gustatum adfert mortem, ib. Job, 6, 6: vim adferre alicui for inferre, to use force against or offer violence to one, Cic. Phil. 2, 7; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Liv. 9, 16; 42, 29 Drak.; Ov. H. 17, 21 Heins.; id. A. A. 1, 679; Suet. Oth. 12 al.: manus adferre alicui, in a bad sense, to lay hands on, attack, assail (opp.: “manus abstinere ab aliquo): pro re quisque manus adfert (sc. ad pugnam),Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26: “domino a familiā suā manus adlatas esse,id. Quint. 27: “intellegimus eum detrudi, cui manus adferuntur,id. Caecin. 17: “qui sit improbissimus, manus ei adferantur, effodiantur oculi,id. Rep. 3, 17 Creuz. al.: sibi manus, to lay hands on one's self, to commit suicide: Qui quidem manus, quas justius in Lepidi perniciem animāsset, sibi adferre conatus est, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.—Also of things: manus templo, to rob or plunder, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18: “bonis alienis,id. Off. 2, 15: “manus suis vulneribus,to tear open, id. Att. 3, 15 (a little before: “ne rescindam ipse dolorem meum): manus beneficio suo,to nullify, render worthless, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 ext.
II. Esp.
A. To bring, bear, or carry a thing, as news, to report, announce, inform, publish; constr. alicui or ad aliquem aliquid, or acc. with inf. (class.; “in the histt., esp. in Livy, very freq.): ea adferam eaque ut nuntiem, etc.,Plaut. Am. prol. 9: “istud quod adfers, aures exspectant meae,id. As. 2, 2, 65; Ter. Phorm. prol. 22: “calamitas tanta fuit, ut eam non ex proelio nuntius, sed ex sermone rumor adferret,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25: “si ei subito sit adlatum periculum patriae,id. Off. 1, 43, 154: “nihil novi ad nos adferebatur,id. Fam. 2, 14; id. Att. 6, 8: rumores, qui de me adferuntur, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21: “Caelium ad illam adtulisse, se aurum quaerere,id. Cael. 24; so id. Fam. 5, 2 al.: “magnum enim, quod adferebant, videbatur,Caes. B. C. 3, 15 Dint.: “cum crebri adferrent nuntii, male rem gerere Darium,Nep. 3, 3: “haud vana adtulere,Liv. 4, 37; 6, 31: “exploratores missi adtulerunt quieta omnia apud Gallos esse,id. 8, 17 Drak.: “per idem tempus rebellāsse Etruscos adlatum est,word was brought, id. 10, 45 al.: “idem ex Hispaniā adlatum,Tac. H. 1, 76: “esse, qui magnum nescio quid adferret,Suet. Dom. 16; Luc. 1, 475: “scelus adtulit umbris,Val. Fl. 3, 172 al.—So of instruction: doctrinam, Vulg. prol. Eccli.; ib. 2 Joan. 10.—
C. To bring forwards, allege, assert, adduce, as an excuse, reason, etc.: “quam causam adferam?Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 23: “justas causas adfers,Cic. Att. 11, 15; “also without causa: rationes quoque, cur hoc ita sit, adferendas puto,id. Fin. 5, 10, 27; cf. id. Fam. 4, 13: “idque me non ad meam defensionem adtulisse,id. Caecin. 29, 85: “ad ea, quae dixi, adfer, si quid habes,id. Att. 7: nihil igitur adferunt, qui in re gerendā versari senectutem negant, they bring forwards nothing to the purpose, who, etc., id. Sen. 6; id. de Or. 2, 53, 215: “quid enim poterit dicere? ... an aetatem adferet?” i. e. as an excuse, id. ib. 2, 89, 364.—Also absol.: “Quid sit enim corpus sentire, quis adferet umquam ...?will bring forwards an explanation, Lucr. 3, 354 (cf. reddo absol. in same sense, id. 1, 566): “et, cur credam, adferre possum,Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 70; 3, 23, 55.—
D. Adferre aliquid = conducere, conferre aliquid, to contribute any thing to a definite object, to be useful in any thing, to help, assist; constr. with ad, with dat., or absol.: “quam ad rem magnum adtulimus adjumentum hominibus nostris,Cic. Off. 1, 1: “negat Epicurus diuturnitatem temporis ad beate vivendum aliquid adferre,id. Fin. 2, 27, 87: “quidquid ad rem publicam adtulimus, si modo aliquid adtulimus,id. Off. 1, 44, 155: “illa praesidia non adferunt oratori aliquid, ne, etc.,id. Mil. 1: aliquid adtulimus etiam nos, id. Planc. 10, 24: “quid enim oves aliud adferunt, nisi, etc.,id. N. D. 2, 63.—
E. Very rare in class. period, to bring forth as a product, to yield, bear, produce, = fero: “agri fertiles, qui multo plus adferunt, quam acceperunt,Cic. Off. 1, 15: “herbam adferentem semen,Vulg. Gen. 1, 29: “arva non adferent cibum,ib. Hab. 3, 17: lignum adtulit fructum, ib. Joel, 2, 22; ib. Apoc. 22, 2: “ager fructum,ib. Luc. 12, 16 al.
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