(verb) : intrō-dūco, duxi, ductum, 3
* To lead or bring into a place, to conduct into or within (syn.: induco, immitto).
* Lit.
* With acc.: gregem venalium,Plaut. Aul. 3, 3, 4: noctu milites,Sall. J. 12, 4: Volturcium cum legatis,id. C. 46, 6: praesidium,Caes. B. C. 1, 13, 2; cf. se,Curt. 3, 12, 10: aliquem tecum,id. 8, 8, 19: quod oppidum cohortibus introductis tenebat,Caes. B. C. 1, 12, 3.
* Trop.
* With ad and acc.: ad regem,Curt. 6, 7, 17.
* With eo: nacti portum, eo naves introduxerunt,Caes. B. C. 3, 26, 4.
* To bring in, introduce: philosophiam in domos,Cic. Tusc. 5, 4: aliquem in possessionem,Dig. 25, 5, 2: ambitionem in senatum,to introduce,Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 19; Dig. 9, 4, 26: senatusconsulta,ib. 29, 5, 1.
* Esp., in speaking or writing, to introduce a person or subject: Catonem senem disputantem,Cic. Lael. 1, 3: sermones,Quint. 9, 2, 30: fictam narrationem,id. 4, 2, 19; cf.: pictores animas sensibus auctas,represented,Lucr. 3, 630.
* To bring forward, maintain: non modo natum mundum introduxit, sed etiam paene manu factum,Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 20: introducebat, summum bonum esse, frui,id. Ac. 2, 42, 131: deliberationem,id. Off. 3, 3, 10: narrationem,Quint. 4, 2, 19 al.
* To institute, originate: ex hujus modi principio consuetudo aestimationis introducta est,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82, § 189: hac introducta consuetudine,id. Fam. 16, 21, 3: ejusmodi deliberationem,id. Off. 3, 3, 12: consuetudinem,Val. Max. 2, 6, 5: novum in republica exemplum,to set an example,Caes. B. C. 1, 7, 2: exemplum a patricio homine introductum,Liv. 4, 16, 4: leges perniciosissimas reipublicae,Val. Max. 9, 5, 1: ritus novos,Lact. 1, 22, 19: novas superstitiones,Quint. 4, 4, 5.

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