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* V. a., to overcome, conquer; always beyond the circle of milit. lang.
* With personal objects, to convict of crime or error, refute (very freq. and class.).
* With simple acc.: quem ego jam hic convincam palam,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 147: hujus si causa non manifestissimis rebus teneretur, tamen eum mores ipsius ac vita convincerent,Cic. Sull. 25, 71: verum enim invenire volumus, non tamquam adversarium aliquem convincere,id. Fin. 1, 5, 13: Aristonis jam fracta et convicta secta,id. Leg. 1, 13, 38: si negem, quo me teste convincas?id. Phil. 2, 4, 8; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 104; Liv. 26, 12, 17; Quint. 1, 6, 10 et saep.
* With things as objects, to prove something incontestably (esp. as criminal, false, punishable), to show clearly, demonstrate (freq. and class.).
* With acc.: inauditum facinus ipsius qui commisit voce convinci,Cic. Quint. 25, 79; so, peccata argumentis,id. Part. Or. 33, 116; cf.: falsum veris convincere rebus,Lucr. 4, 764: alios sensus,id. 4, 495: haec poëtarum et pictorum portenta,Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11: orationem (with redargui),id. Univ. 3 init.: errores Epicuri,id. N. D. 2, 1, 3: falsa,id. ib. 1, 32, 91: avaritiam,Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 12: furorem,Ov. M. 13, 58: quod obicitur,Quint. 5, 10, 35: quod (crimen) apud patres convictum,Tac. A. 14, 40 al.: convicta (praedia),proved not to belong to you,Cic. Fl. 32, 79.
* With acc. and inf.: nihil te didicisse ... nihil scire convincerent,Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Par. 5, 3, 41; id. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Quint. 2, 15, 14 al.

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