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desumo
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Lewis Short
(verb) : dē-sūmo, mpsi (msi), 3, Lit.
* To take for one's self from a multitude or mass; hence, to pick out, choose, select (syn. deligere); to take upon one's self, undertake (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.— syn. suscipere): sibi consules asservandos desumunt,Liv. 4, 55, 3: sibi hostes,id. 38, 45; cf.: sibi pugnas,Tac. Or. 37; and: cursum certamenque,Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 7: sibi vacuas Athenas, *Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 81.
* To take for one's self from a multitude or mass; hence, to pick out, choose, select (syn. deligere); to take upon one's self, undertake (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.— syn. suscipere): sibi consules asservandos desumunt,Liv. 4, 55, 3: sibi hostes,id. 38, 45; cf.: sibi pugnas,Tac. Or. 37; and: cursum certamenque,Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 7: sibi vacuas Athenas, *Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 81.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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