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|lshtext=<b>in-vĕnĭo</b>: vēni, ventum, 4, v. a. (<br /><b>I</b> fut. invenibit for inveniet, Pompon. ap. Non. p. 479, 28), lit., to [[come]] or [[light]] [[upon]] a [[thing]]; to [[find]], [[meet]] [[with]] (cf.: [[reperio]], [[offendo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[neque]] domi, [[neque]] in urbe [[invenio]] quemquam, qui illum viderit, Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 2; id. Aul. 4, 2, 13; cf. id. Stich. 1, 2, 53: in agro populabundum hostem, Liv. 3, 4, 7: [[Scipio]] [[mortuus]] in cubiculo [[inventus]] est, id. Epit. 59 fin.: naves reliquas paratas ad navigandum invenit, Caes. B. G. 5, 5: tolerabiles oratores, Cic. de Or. 1, 2: scis, Pamphilam meam inventam civem? is [[found]] to be a [[citizen]]'s [[daughter]], Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 6. —Sup.: pleraque inventu rara ac difficilia, Plin. 28, 1, 1, § 1; so Gell. 17, 12, 2. —<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[find]] [[out]], to [[invent]], [[effect]]: quandam fallaciam, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 35: perniciem aliis, ac [[postremo]] sibi, Tac. A. 1, 74.—Of an [[orator]]'s [[faculty]] of [[invention]]: tanta in eo inveniendi [[copia]] et eloquendi [[facultas]], Quint. 10, 1, 69: [[multa]] [[divinitus]] a majoribus nostris inventa [[atque]] instituta sunt, Auct. Or. pro Dom. 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[find]] [[out]], [[discover]], [[ascertain]], [[learn]]: inveniebat ex captivis, Sabim [[flumen]] ab suis castris non [[amplius]] milia passuum [[decem]] abesse, Caes. B. G. 2, 16: conjurationem, Cic. Cat. 3, 7: [[apud]] auctores [[invenio]] [[eodem]] [[anno]] descisse Antiates, Liv. 3, 23; 9, 45—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[find]] [[out]], [[invent]], [[devise]], [[contrive]] [[how]] to do a [[thing]]: [[ille]] [[quomodo]] [[crimen]] commenticium confirmaret, non inveniebat, Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 42: [[Venus]] inveniet puero succumbere [[furtim]], i. e. [[will]] [[find]] [[out]] a [[way]], Tib. 1 (8), 9, 35.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> To [[acquire]], [[get]], [[earn]]: ut facillume Sine [[invidia]] laudem invenias, Ter. And. 1, 1, 39: qui [[primus]] hoc [[cognomen]] invenit, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23: ex quo [[illi]] [[gloria]] opesque inventae, Sall. J. 70, 2: laudem, Just. 3, 7, 10; cf.: gratiam [[apud]] aliquem, Vulg. Luc. 1, 30.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> With se.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[show]] itself, [[appear]]: [[postquam]] se [[dolor]] invenit, Ov. H. 15, 113.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To be at [[home]] in [[any]] [[thing]]: [[minus]] se inveniunt, i. e. are perplexed, Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 6: nec medici se inveniunt, Petr. 47.
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