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at-trăho , traxi, tractum, 3, v. a.,
I.to draw to or toward, to attract, drag with force, draw (rare but class.; syn.: traho, duco, adduco).
II. Trop., to draw, lead, bring, move, attract, etc.: “nihil esse quod ad se rem ullam tam inliciat et tam attrahat quam ad amicitiam similitudo,Cic. Lael. 14, 50: recepi causam Siciliae; “ea me ad hoc negotium provincia attraxit,prompted, moved, incited, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 1: “quandoquidem in partes, ait, attrahor,I am drawn by force to take sides, Ov. M. 5, 93 (Merk., abstrahor): “discipulos,id. F. 3, 830: “ideo attraxi te miserans,Vulg. Jer. 31, 3.—Hence, * attractus , a, um, P. a., drawn or attracted; of the brow, contracted, knit: “frons attractior,Sen. Ben. 4, 31.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.10
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 10.1.3
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.1
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.3.61
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.93
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.63
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.563
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.250
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 32.20
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 31.3
    • Old Testament, Psalm, 118.131
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 28.23
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7.29
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 9
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 4.31
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 6.7
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 14
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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