transcrībo or
transcrībo or trans-scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a., to write over (from one book into another), to transfer in writing, to copy off, transcribe (syn. transfero). In gen.: fabulas aut orationes totas vestrā manu, Auct. Her. 4, 4, 6: veteres ad verbum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 22: Cornelium Celsum, id. ib. 14, 2, 4, § 33: eundem librum in exemplaria transcriptum mille, Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 2: verba Quadrigarii ex Annali ejus sexto, Gell. 2, 2, 13. — In partic. Pregn., to write off in an altered form, to alter, forge: cum tabulas (testamenti) prehendisset Oppianicus, digito legata delevit, et cum id multis locis fecisset, post mortem ejus, ne lituris coargui posset, testamentum in alias tabulas transcriptum signis adulterinis obsignavit, Cic. Clu. 14, 41: qui transcripserit tabulas publicas, id. N. D. 3, 30, 74.— Jurid. t. t., to make over, transfer a thing to any one as his own; to assign, convey: in socios nomina, Liv. 35, 7, 2: aes alienum hereditarium in se, Dig. 16, 1, 13: fundos alicui, ib. 19, 5, 12: agri plagam Publio et Gaio, ib. 32, 1, 39 med.: praedium, Cod. Just. 11, 2, 3.— Transf., in gen., to transfer, surrender, yield: Turne, patiere tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis? Verg. A. 7, 422: Cilicas, Sid. Carm. 2, 461: cuiquam spatium vitae, Ov. M. 7, 173. — To transfer, remove to another place or station: turmas equitum ademptis equis in funditorum alas transcripsit, Val. Max. 2, 7, 9; 2, 7, 15: transcribunt urbi matres, Verg. A. 5, 750.— Trop.: cum te in viros philosophia transcripserit, Sen. Ep. 4, 1: in quod malum transcribor! id. Thyest. 13.— Of pictures, to copy, transfer (cf.: exprimo, assimulo): multum degenerat transcribentium sors varia, Plin. 25, 2, 4, § 8.
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transcrībo or trans-scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a., to write over (from one book into another), to transfer in writing, to copy off, transcribe (syn. transfero). In gen.: fabulas aut orationes totas vestrā manu, Auct. Her. 4, 4, 6: veteres ad verbum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 22: Cornelium Celsum, id. ib. 14, 2, 4, § 33: eundem librum in exemplaria transcriptum mille, Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 2: verba Quadrigarii ex Annali ejus sexto, Gell. 2, 2, 13. — In partic. Pregn., to write off in an altered form, to alter, forge: cum tabulas (testamenti) prehendisset Oppianicus, digito legata delevit, et cum id multis locis fecisset, post mortem ejus, ne lituris coargui posset, testamentum in alias tabulas transcriptum signis adulterinis obsignavit, Cic. Clu. 14, 41: qui transcripserit tabulas publicas, id. N. D. 3, 30, 74.— Jurid. t. t., to make over, transfer a thing to any one as his own; to assign, convey: in socios nomina, Liv. 35, 7, 2: aes alienum hereditarium in se, Dig. 16, 1, 13: fundos alicui, ib. 19, 5, 12: agri plagam Publio et Gaio, ib. 32, 1, 39 med.: praedium, Cod. Just. 11, 2, 3.— Transf., in gen., to transfer, surrender, yield: Turne, patiere tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis? Verg. A. 7, 422: Cilicas, Sid. Carm. 2, 461: cuiquam spatium vitae, Ov. M. 7, 173. — To transfer, remove to another place or station: turmas equitum ademptis equis in funditorum alas transcripsit, Val. Max. 2, 7, 9; 2, 7, 15: transcribunt urbi matres, Verg. A. 5, 750.— Trop.: cum te in viros philosophia transcripserit, Sen. Ep. 4, 1: in quod malum transcribor! id. Thyest. 13.— Of pictures, to copy, transfer (cf.: exprimo, assimulo): multum degenerat transcribentium sors varia, Plin. 25, 2, 4, § 8.
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