(verb) : ap-porto (adp-, Ritschl, Fleck., Lachm., Baiter; app-, Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1
* To bring, carry, conduct, convey to; lit. and trop. (most freq. in ante-class. per. and in Cic.; in the latter only in its lit. signif.; and in poetry perh. only anteclass., later replaced by adferre; syn.: importo, adfero, adveho, inveho): alia adportabunt filiae,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 34: divitias domum,id. Stich. 3, 1, 11: Quid nam adportas?Ter. And. 5, 2, 17; id. Phorm. prol. 24 (cf. Plaut. Cas. prol. 70); so id. And. 1, 1, 46; id. Ad. 5, 4, 2; id. Heaut. 3, 1, 18; 4, 4, 25: insolitam rem auribus adportare,Lucr. 5, 100: bonum adporto nuntium,Vulg. 2 Reg. 18, 31: morbos,Lucr. 5, 221, and perh. not elsewhere: si nihil quicquam aliud vitī adportes tecum, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 8, 25, and Non. p. 247, 6: cochleas de Illyrico,Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 4: signa populo Romano apportare,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 21: multa undique adportans,id. Off. 1, 42, 151: Indicum adportatur ex Indiā,Plin. 35, 6, 25, § 43; Suet. Dom. 6.—In Plaut., adporto adventum, to bring an arrival, for advenio, to arrive, come to: Huc autem quom extemplo adventum adporto,Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 5.

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