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(verb) : immitto (inm-), īsi, issum, 3 (
* Perf. sync. immisti, Sil. 17, 354), in-mitto, to send or let into a place, to introduce, admit, to send or despatch against, to let loose at, discharge at, to cast or throw into (freq. and class.; cf. intromitto, induco, introduco).
* Lit.
* In gen.: servos ad spoliandum fanum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101; cf.: servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,id. Att. 14, 10, 1; id. Sest. 36, 78: magna vis hominum simul immissa,Liv. 2, 5, 3: equitatu immisso (in agmen hostium),Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 4: armaturam levem in stationes,Liv. 40, 48, 2; 21, 8, 8: corpus in undas,Ov. H. 2, 133: artificem mediis flammis,id. M. 6, 615: completas naves taeda et pice in Pomponianam classem immisit,let loose,Caes. B. C. 3, 101, 2; so ib. § 5; cf.: navem in terram,Liv. 30, 25, 8: repente equum immisi ad eam legionem, urged, spurred, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3: si effrenatos in eos equos immittitis,Liv. 40, 40, 5: pila in hostes,Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 6: tela,id. B. C. 3, 92, 2: telum ex manu,Dig. 9, 2, 52: canalibus aqua immissa,Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 6: aquam ex fullonicis in fundum vicini,Dig. 39, 3, 3: cloacam privatam in publicum,ib. 43, 23, 1; and: puram aquam in alvum,Cels. 2, 12: haec (tigna) cum machinationibus immissa in flumen defixerat,had driven into,Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4: bipedales trabes,id. ib. § 6: tigna (in parietem),Dig. 8, 5, 8; 43, 25, 3: coronam caelo,hurls it to the sky,Ov. M. 8, 179: lentum filis immittitur aurum,is inserted, interwoven,id. ib. 6, 68: circa oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam,put on, put around,Petr. 32, 2: dexteraque immissis da mihi signa rotis,let loose, swiftly driven,Prop. 3, 9, 58; cf.: immissis pars caeca et concita frenis Arietat in portas,slackened,Verg. A. 11, 889: habenas,id. ib. 5, 662; Ov. M. 1, 280; cf. rudentes,let go, let loose,Plin. Ep. 8, 4, 5: Codrus in medios se immisit hostes,threw himself,Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116; Liv. 9, 4, 10: se in hostium manum multitudinemque,Cic. Font. 17, 38; cf.: immisit in armatas hostium copias,id. Par. 1, 2, 12: offirmastin' occultare, quo te inmittas,whither you are going,Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 40.
* Trop.: aliquid in aures,to listen to,Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 14; but without in: ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris inmittas tuas,id. Capt. 3, 4, 16: verba suis immittere figuris, to accommodate its modes of thought to the words, Manil. 1, 24: jactam et immissam a te nefariam in me injuriam semper duxi,Cic. Par. 4, 1, 28: hic corrector in eo ipso loco, quo reprehendit, immittit imprudens ipse senarium,lets escape him,id. Or. 56, 190: si nihil extrinsecus accidit, quod corpus ejus in aliquam valetudinem immitteret,threw into some sickness,Dig. 1, 21, 14, § 2: immisitque fugam Teucris atrumque timorem,instilled, infused,Verg. A. 9, 719: vires alicui,Val. Fl. 7, 353: amorem,Sen. Herc. Oet. 554.
* To send against (secretly or hostilely), to set on, incite, instigate, suborn (mostly post-Aug.): alii Tarquinium a Cicerone immissum aiebant,Sall. C. 48, 8: fratrem Tiberium inopinantem repente immisso tribuno militum interemit,Suet. Calig. 23; cf. Tac. A. 3, 16: immissis qui monerent,id. ib. 4, 54: Suillium accusandis utrisque immittit,id. ib. 11, 1: ad cujus rei probationem immittet indices,Just. 32, 2: invidia et a dissimilibus delator inmissus,Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 3.
* To let grow unrestrained or wild: ea vitis immittitur ad uvas pariendas,Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3: cupressus immittitur in perticas asseresve,Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 141: pro densitate arborum immissorumque aliorum in alios ramorum,grown together, interwoven,Liv. 40, 22, 3: penitus immissis radicibus niti, deeply planted or sunk, Quint. 1, 3, 5: barba immissa et intonso capillo, etc., overgrown, hanging down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 130, 8; so, barba immissa,Verg. A. 3, 593; Ov. M. 12, 351; Quint. 12, 3, 12: immissi capilli,Ov. F. 1, 503; id. M. 5, 338; 6, 168; cf., in a Greek construction: Phleias immissus patrios de vertice crines,Val. Fl. 1, 412.
* To ingraft: trunci resecantur, et ... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,Verg. G. 2, 80.
* Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.
* Perf. sync. immisti, Sil. 17, 354), in-mitto, to send or let into a place, to introduce, admit, to send or despatch against, to let loose at, discharge at, to cast or throw into (freq. and class.; cf. intromitto, induco, introduco).
* Lit.
* In gen.: servos ad spoliandum fanum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101; cf.: servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,id. Att. 14, 10, 1; id. Sest. 36, 78: magna vis hominum simul immissa,Liv. 2, 5, 3: equitatu immisso (in agmen hostium),Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 4: armaturam levem in stationes,Liv. 40, 48, 2; 21, 8, 8: corpus in undas,Ov. H. 2, 133: artificem mediis flammis,id. M. 6, 615: completas naves taeda et pice in Pomponianam classem immisit,let loose,Caes. B. C. 3, 101, 2; so ib. § 5; cf.: navem in terram,Liv. 30, 25, 8: repente equum immisi ad eam legionem, urged, spurred, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3: si effrenatos in eos equos immittitis,Liv. 40, 40, 5: pila in hostes,Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 6: tela,id. B. C. 3, 92, 2: telum ex manu,Dig. 9, 2, 52: canalibus aqua immissa,Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 6: aquam ex fullonicis in fundum vicini,Dig. 39, 3, 3: cloacam privatam in publicum,ib. 43, 23, 1; and: puram aquam in alvum,Cels. 2, 12: haec (tigna) cum machinationibus immissa in flumen defixerat,had driven into,Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4: bipedales trabes,id. ib. § 6: tigna (in parietem),Dig. 8, 5, 8; 43, 25, 3: coronam caelo,hurls it to the sky,Ov. M. 8, 179: lentum filis immittitur aurum,is inserted, interwoven,id. ib. 6, 68: circa oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam,put on, put around,Petr. 32, 2: dexteraque immissis da mihi signa rotis,let loose, swiftly driven,Prop. 3, 9, 58; cf.: immissis pars caeca et concita frenis Arietat in portas,slackened,Verg. A. 11, 889: habenas,id. ib. 5, 662; Ov. M. 1, 280; cf. rudentes,let go, let loose,Plin. Ep. 8, 4, 5: Codrus in medios se immisit hostes,threw himself,Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116; Liv. 9, 4, 10: se in hostium manum multitudinemque,Cic. Font. 17, 38; cf.: immisit in armatas hostium copias,id. Par. 1, 2, 12: offirmastin' occultare, quo te inmittas,whither you are going,Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 40.
* Trop.: aliquid in aures,to listen to,Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 14; but without in: ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris inmittas tuas,id. Capt. 3, 4, 16: verba suis immittere figuris, to accommodate its modes of thought to the words, Manil. 1, 24: jactam et immissam a te nefariam in me injuriam semper duxi,Cic. Par. 4, 1, 28: hic corrector in eo ipso loco, quo reprehendit, immittit imprudens ipse senarium,lets escape him,id. Or. 56, 190: si nihil extrinsecus accidit, quod corpus ejus in aliquam valetudinem immitteret,threw into some sickness,Dig. 1, 21, 14, § 2: immisitque fugam Teucris atrumque timorem,instilled, infused,Verg. A. 9, 719: vires alicui,Val. Fl. 7, 353: amorem,Sen. Herc. Oet. 554.
* To send against (secretly or hostilely), to set on, incite, instigate, suborn (mostly post-Aug.): alii Tarquinium a Cicerone immissum aiebant,Sall. C. 48, 8: fratrem Tiberium inopinantem repente immisso tribuno militum interemit,Suet. Calig. 23; cf. Tac. A. 3, 16: immissis qui monerent,id. ib. 4, 54: Suillium accusandis utrisque immittit,id. ib. 11, 1: ad cujus rei probationem immittet indices,Just. 32, 2: invidia et a dissimilibus delator inmissus,Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 3.
* To let grow unrestrained or wild: ea vitis immittitur ad uvas pariendas,Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3: cupressus immittitur in perticas asseresve,Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 141: pro densitate arborum immissorumque aliorum in alios ramorum,grown together, interwoven,Liv. 40, 22, 3: penitus immissis radicibus niti, deeply planted or sunk, Quint. 1, 3, 5: barba immissa et intonso capillo, etc., overgrown, hanging down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 130, 8; so, barba immissa,Verg. A. 3, 593; Ov. M. 12, 351; Quint. 12, 3, 12: immissi capilli,Ov. F. 1, 503; id. M. 5, 338; 6, 168; cf., in a Greek construction: Phleias immissus patrios de vertice crines,Val. Fl. 1, 412.
* To ingraft: trunci resecantur, et ... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,Verg. G. 2, 80.
* Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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