“draw” in Latin

TR., Pull forwards slowly, etc., trahere (to draw by force; in very many of the English meanings of the word; e.g., to draw water from a well, aquam ex puteo; a weapon out of a body, ferrum e vulnere, telum de corpore, both Ov.: to be drawing his last breath, extremum spiritum, Phaedrus. [animam agere in prose]: also IMPROP., to be drawn to anything, trahi or trahi et duci ad aliquid: to draw anybody from, trahere aliquem longius a re: to draw anybody over to one’s opinion, trahere aliquem ad suam sententiam, etc.): ducere (to lead; as used figuratively, ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt): vehere (to draw a vehicle; of horses, etc.; also equi vehunt aliquem). To draw a carriage, currum vehere (general term); currum ducere (to drag it along; of men; ☞ Cic., Tusc., 1, 47, 113). To draw anything to anything, trahere or attrahere ad aliquid to draw ships to shore, naves subducere (i. e., after the voyage is ended); naves trahere ad litora (against the will of the crew; Sall., Fragm. ap Serv., Verg., Aen., 3, 425). To draw anything to one’s self ad se trahere or attrahere: ad se allicere et trahere (PROP.; e.g., of the magnet): to draw anything through anything, trajicere aliquid per aliquid (e.g., thread through the eye of a needle).

Of drawing liquids. (a) PROPR., haurire. To draw water from a well, aquam haurire de puteo; aquam trahere ex puteo (with reference to the lifting it up); to draw (beer, etc.), de dolio haurire or eximere (vinum, etc.): promere (with or without dolio): defundere (i. e., ex cado in crateram atque ex hac in pocula, Orell., who says that diffundere [Juv., 5, 50] is “vinum ex lacu in dolia, vel ex his in amphoras transfundere”). (b) IMPROPR., haurire (a or e fonte, or fonte only; all Cic.; with adverbs, inde, unde, etc.): repetere ab aliqua re (derive it from a distant source).

To represent by pictures, delineare: designare: describere (but these words are not used absolutely; but an accusative must be added, delineare imagines, etc.): pingere (to paint; with accusative, speciem hominis, etc.): depingere (also aliquid; imaginem in tabula, Ov.; also of depicting in words, rempublicam in sermone aliquo depingere, Cic.): describere (figuratively): To draw figures in the dust, quaedam or formas in pulvere describere: to draw anything well, probe depingere aliquid: to be able to draw, graphidos scientiam habere.

PHRASES (more or less idiomatical) with “to draw.” - To draw BIT, frenos eximere equo (Liv.): frenos detrahere equo or equis (Liv., 4, 33; PROP., to take off the bridle); equi reficiendi (or, -orum -orum) causa subsistere (to rest one’s horse; after Caes. B. C. 2, 42, end). To draw BLOOD, sanguinem mittere alicui (to bleed him; PROP.); cruorem elicere (e.g., levi ictu, Tac.). To draw DRY, exhaurire (e.g., the treasury, aerarium; also omnem pecuniam ex aerario exhaurire; a province, provinciam sumptibus et jacturis; anybody, sumptu exhaurire aliquem). To draw TEARS, movere lacrimas (Quint. 4, 2, 77); lacrimas ciere (Verg.); commovere (Curt.); from anybody, *tantum alicui misericordiam commovere, ut lacrimas tenere non possit; from the people, fletum movere populo; from anybody against his will, lacrimas excutere alicui (Terentianus): he would have drawn tears from the very stones, lapides mehercule flere coegisset. To draw in LENGTH, producere, trahere, extrahere (with reference to time); tendere, extendere (with reference to space). To draw CUTS or LOTS, sortes ducere [Vid: LOT]: to draw a lot, sortem ducere or educere. To draw a LINE, lineam scribere (if with a pen, etc.); lineam ducere (general term). To draw a SWORD, gladium (e vagina) educere; gladium educere, stringere, or destringere (☞ nudare is poetical). With a drawn sword, gladio stricto. To draw CURTAINS; [Vid: CURTAIN]. To draw a CONCLUSION or INFERENCE; Vid: the substantives. To draw CONFORT from anything, se solari aliqua re; hoc solatio utor, quod, etc., hoc est mihi solatio. To draw anybody’s ATTENTION [Vid: ATTENTION]. To draw MONEY from the treasury, pecuniam (sumtum, etc.) ex aerario haurire. To draw a BILL, conscribere syngrapham: perscribere pecuniam: delegatione solutionem perficere: to draw a bill payable at Athens, permutare alicui pecuniam Athenas: to draw a bill upon anybody, aliquem delegare alicui (a quo fiat numeratio, Cic.). To draw a HARE, leporem exenterare. To draw a TOOTH, dentem (alicui evellere) [Vid: TOOTH]. To draw a BOW, arcum adducere (Verg.). To DRAW ASIDE, aliquem sevocare: aliquem seducere. To DRAW AWAY, abducere, deducere, avertere: avocare: sevocare (from duty, etc.); anybody from agriculture, abducere aliquem ab aratro; revocare aliquem ab agricultura. To draw anybody away from duly; Vid: DUTY. To DRAW BACK, pedem or gradum referre (of an army); secedere (to step aside, of persons); se subtrahere (by degrees or imperceptibly): to draw buck from anything, recedere a, etc.; se recipere a; se removere a, etc. (to withdraw). To DRAW IN, Vid. INVEIGLE, ENTICE. To DRAW NEAR, prope accedere: appropinquare (to come near, both with reference to place): prope adesse: subesse (to be close at hand): appropinquare: appetere (to approach, of time): to draw near (e.g., a spot, the fire, etc.): propius se movere: to draw near anybody or anything, (propius) accedere ad, with accusative: to draw near the town with the army, exercitum ad urbem (propius) admovere: a period or time draws near, when, etc., prope adest, cum, etc.: the seventh day was drawing near, appetebat dies septimus. To DRAW OFF (fin a cask). Vid: To DRAW (of liquids). To DRAW OFF, [Vid: To DRAW AWAY.] to draw off the mind from anything, mentem or mentis aciem a re abducere, or sevocare: to draw off anybody’s attention. [Vid: DISTRACT].

= Pull off, detrahere alicui or de aliqua re; a ring, alicui de digito annulum detrahere or auferre; alicui annulum extrahere or eximere. To draw off troops, abducere exercitum (infecta re) ab aliquo loco. To DRAW ON,

To cause, Vid:

To entice, Vid: To DRAW OVER (to a party, etc.), abducere (e.g., the soldiers): aliquem participem facere alicujus rei; aliquem alicujus rei socium or in alicujus rei societatem assumere (e.g., to a plan, consilii; to a conspiracy, conjurationis): aliquem in suas partes ducere or trahere; aliquem ad causam perducere (to one’s side): in sententiam suam adducere, or (quite) perducere (to an opinion): to try to bring anybody over, alicujus animum or aliquem tentare (e.g., by money, threats, etc.); aliquem or alicujus animum sollicitare (e.g., by money, threats, etc.). To DRAW OUT, extrahere: educere (milites ex castris, etc.): elicere (tempt out). To draw out a secret, expiscari aliquid: to draw one’s money out of a concern, renunciare societatem, or socio. To DRAW TIGHT, astringere (to make tighter, etc., by drawing on; e.g., a fetter, vinculum); intendere, contendere (to strain or draw tight what before was loose). To DRAW UP (in writing), scribere (to write out, write down a letter, law, writing, will, edict, etc.): conscribere (to compose in writing): concipere (to conceive in words): perscribere (to write down carefully, exactly, or at length, an edict, a decree of the Senate, an account, etc.): conficere (to compose, general term).

As a beast of burden, trahere: to make a beast draw, jugum imponere.