(verb) : prō-mōvĕo, mōvi, mōtum (
* Pluperf. promorat. Hor Epod. 11, 14: promosset,Ov. Am 2, 9, 17 Jahn), 2, , to move forward, cause to advance, push onward, advance.
* Lit.
* In gen.: saxa vectibus, Caes B. C. 2, 11: onera,Col. 11, 1, 8; Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 64: assa in alterum apodyterii anguium,Cic. Q. Fr 3, 1, 1, § 2: legiones,Hirt. B. G. 8, 16: castra ad Carthaginem, to move onward, Liv 28, 44 fin.: exercitu in Aetoliam promoto,Just. 14, 1, 6: cornua utrimque (in acie),Quint. 2, 13, 3: scalas et machinamenta,Tac. A. 15, 4 fin.: calculum,to push forward, move,Quint. 11, 2, 38; 11, 3, 113: unum pedem triclinio,to put forth, move from,Phaedr. 4, 23, 28: ibi te videbo et promovebo,will take you along with me,Cic. Att. 4, 12 fin.
* Trop.
* Med. t. t., to put out of joint, dislocate, displace: in palmā quoque ossa interdum suis sedibus promoventur,Cels. 8, 18 init.: femur in omnes quattuor partes promovetur, saepissime in interiorem,id. 8, 20 init.
* In gen., to bring to pass, effect, accomplish (ante- and post-class.): promovere parum,Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 81: aliquis dicat, Nihil promoveris,id. And. 4, 1, 17: meditatio nihil ad vitam tuendam promovens,Gell. 10, 22, 24; cf. in a lusus verbb. with movere se,Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 4.—Absol.: cum in studio facundiae abunde promovisset,Gell. 5, 10, 7.
* In partic.
* To enlarge, increase: doctrina vim promovet insitam, Hor C. 4, 4, 33; so, promovere aliquem, to advance, prefer, promote (post-Aug.; cf.: perduco, produco, proveho): vetus miles ad eum gradum promotus,Curt. 6, 11, 1: promotus ad amplissimas procurationes,Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3; Suet. Oth. 1; id. Vesp. 16; Lampr. Elag. 12; 20; Plin. Pan. 90, 6; Vulg. Dan. 3, 97.
* Of time, advanced, i. e. late: nocte promotā,late at night, far into the night,App. M. 4, p. 152, 38; 7, p. 190, 30.
* Subst.: prōmōta, ōrum, n., in the lang. of the Stoics, things that are to be preferred, pref. erable things, as being next in degree to absolute good; a literal transl. of the Gr. προηγμέυα, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52.

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