(verb) : sē-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1
* To call apart or aside, to call away to some particular place (class.; a favorite word of Cic.; syn. seduco).
* Lit.: sevocare singulos hortarique coepit,Caes. B. G. 5, 6: erum,Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 25: hunc,Ov. M. 2, 836: maxime placitam (feminam ad stuprum),Suet. Calig. 36: aliquem,Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 34: plebem in Aventinum,id. Mur. 7, 15; cf.: tribuni plebis, ne quis postea populum sevocaret, capite sanxerunt,should call a meeting of the people out of the city,Liv. 7, 16 fin.: quid tu te solus e senatu sevocas?separate yourself,Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 13.—Less freq. with inanimate objects: haud mediocriter de communi quicquid poterat ad se in privatam domum sevocabat,put aside, withdrew, subtracted,Cic. Quint. 3, 13.
* Trop., to call off, separate, withdraw, remove: cura me sevocat a doctis virginibus (i. e. Musis),Cat. 65, 2: animum a negotio omni,Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75: animum a societate et a contagione corporis somno,id. Div. 1, 30, 63; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 30, 72: mentem a sensibus,id. ib. 1, 16, 38: mentem ab oculis,id. N. D. 3, 8, 21: ab his non multo secus quam a poëtis haec eloquentia sevocanda est,id. Or. 20, 66: quid illuc est, quod ille solus se in consilium sevocat?takes counsel with himself alone,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 45.