I.a leading away, leading on, in accordance with the different acceptations of the primitive word.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: rivorum a fonte, a leading or conducting off, Cic. Top. 8, 33; cf.: “Albanae aquae,” id. Div. 1, 44 fin.—
B. In partic.
1. A leading forth, transplanting of colonies, a colonizing: “quae erit in istos agros deductio?” Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 16; ib. 2, 34: “militum in oppida,” id. Phil. 2, 25, 62: “oppidorum,” Plin. 2, 52, 53, § 139.—
3. An escorting, a conducting safely, Ambros. de Jacob. 2, 1, 4.—
4. A putting out of possession, ejection, expulsion: “ibi tum Caecinam postulasse, ut moribus deductio fieret,” Cic. Caecin. 10, 27. —
5. A deduction, diminution, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 32; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 78: “HERES SINE DEDVCTIONE XX., i. e. vicesimarum,” Inscr. Orell. 3041; cf. “vicesimus. So, sine deductione,” without deduction, Sen. Ben. 2, 4; id. Ep. 58.—
II. Trop.: “ex hac deductione rationis,” from this course of reasoning, Cic. Inv. 1, 14.