(verb) : ănĭmadverto (archaic -vorto), ti, sum, 3, contr. from animum adverto, which orthography is very freq. in the anteclass. period; cf. adverto, II. B. (scarcely found in any poet beside Ter. and Verg.)
* To direct the mind or attention to a thing, to attend to, give heed to, to take heed, consider, regard, observe.
* Lit.
* In gen.: alios tuam rem credidisti magis quam tete animum advorsuros,Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 3: atque haec in bello plura et majora videntur timentibus, eadem non tam animadvertuntur in pace,Cic. Div. 2, 27: sed animadvertendum est diligenter, quae natura rerum sit,id. Off. 2, 20, 69: dignitas tua facit, ut animadvertatur quicquid facias,id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 2.—With ut, to think of: illud me non animadvertisse moleste ferrem, ut ascriberem, etc.,Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 5 (cf.: animos advertere, ne,Liv. 4, 45).
* Transf., as a consequence of attention.
* Of the lictor, whose duty it was to give attention, to see, that the consul, when he appeared, should receive due homage (cf. Sen. Ep. 64; Schwarz ad Plin. Pan. 23, and Smith, Dict. Antiq., s. v. lictor): consul animadvertere proximum lictorem jussit,Liv. 24, 44 fin.
* Of the people, to whom the lictor gave orders to pay attention, to pay regard to: consule theatrum introeunte, cum lictor animadverti ex more jussisset,Suet. Caes. 80 Ruhnk.
* To remark, notice, observe, perceive, see (in a more general sense than above; the most usu. signif. of this word).
* With acc.: Ecquid attendis? ecquid animadvertis horum silentium?Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 20: utcumque animadversa aut existimata erunt, Liv. praef. med.: his animadversis,Verg. G. 2, 259; 3, 123 et saep.: Equidem etiam illud animadverto, etc.,Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37 Beier.: nutrix animadvertit puerum dormientem circumplicatum serpentis amplexu,id. Div. 1, 36, 79.
* In a pregn. sense, to discern something, or, in gen., to apprehend, understand, comprehend, know (less freq. than the synn. cognoscere, intellegere, etc.): boni seminis sues animadvertuntur a facie et progenie,Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 4: nonne animadvertis, quam multi effugerint?Cic. N. D. 3, 37, 89: ut adsint, cognoscant, animadvertant, quid de religione ... existimandum sit,id. ib. 1, 6, 14: animadverti enim et didici ex tuis litteris te, etc.,id. Fam. 3, 5.
* To notice a wrong, to censure, blame, chastise, punish (cf. the Engl. phrase to attend to one, for to punish): Ea primum ab illo animadvortenda injuriast,deserves to be punished,Ter. And. 1, 1, 129 (animadvortenda = castiganda, vindicanda, Don.): O facinus animadvortendum,O crime worthy of punishment,id. ib. 4, 4, 28: animadvertenda peccata,Cic. Rosc. Am. 40: res a magistratibus animadvertenda,id. Caecin. 12: neque animadvertere neque vincire nisi sacerdotibus permissum = morte multare,to punish with death,Tac. G. 7.—Esp. freq. in judicial proceedings as t. t., constr. with in aliquem: qui institueras animadvertere in eos, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23: imperiti, si in hunc animadvertissem, crudeliter et regie factum esse dicerent,id. Cat. 1, 12, 30: qui in alios animadvertisset indictā causā,id. Fam. 5, 2; so Sall. C. 51, 21; Liv. 1, 26: in Marcianum Icelum, ut in libertum, palam animadversum,Tac. H. 1, 46; 1, 68; 1, 85; 4, 49; Suet. Aug. 15; id. Tib. 61; id. Calig. 30; id. Galb. 20; Dig. 48, 19, 8 al.; hence, effect for cause, animadverti,to offend, be censurable,Cic. Or. 3, 12.

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