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|lshtext=<b>narro</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. for gnarigo ([[gnarigavit]], Fest. p. 95) from [[gnarus]]; Sanscr. gnā, [[know]]; Gr. [[γιγνώσκω]]; cf.: [[nosco]] ([[gnosco]]), [[ignoro]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[tell]], [[relate]], [[narrate]], [[report]], [[recount]], [[set]] [[forth]] (syn.: [[memoro]], [[nuntio]], [[trado]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[quid]] mihi [[istaec]] narras? Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 18: ego [[tibi]] ea [[narro]] quae tu [[melius]] scis, [[quam]] [[ipse]], qui [[narro]], Cic. Fam. 9, 6, 6: garrula pericula, Juv. 12, 82.—With acc. and inf.: mihi Philargyrus narravit, te [[interdum]] sollicitum esse vehementius, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 6: [[Clitarchus]] [[tibi]] narravit Darium ab Alexandro esse superatum, id. ib. 2, 10, 3: ne narres te sudavisse ferendo Carmina, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 16: narrare virtutem alicujus, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 20; Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 84: cibos suos homini narrabimus, [[set]] [[forth]], [[explain]], id. 20 praef.: narrat, ut [[virgo]] ab se integra [[etiam]] tum siet, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 70.—Pass.: ut ita narrentur ut gestae res erunt, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 29: haec [[inter]] paucos [[palam]] [[secreto]] narrantur, id. Fam. 8, 1, 4: in comoediis res ipsa narratur, id. ib. 9, 22, 1: quae in provinciis facta narrabantur, Liv. 39, 6, 6; Quint. 3, 8, 11; 4, 2, 76; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 3; Suet. Calig. 22: rationes ... [[satis]] narratas, Tac. A. 11, 11.—With de: quā (epistulā) Crassi libertum ais [[tibi]] de meā sollicitudine macieque narrāsse, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 1: [[mores]] ejus, de quo narres, id. de Or. 2, 59, 241: de quibus nos narrabimus, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24; cf. in the foll.: [[male]], [[bene]] narrare, to [[tell]] [[bad]] or [[good]] [[news]]: [[male]] narras de Nepotis filio, Cic. Att. 16, 14, 4: Othonem [[quod]] speras posse vinci, [[sane]] [[bene]] narras, id. ib. 13, 33, 2.—Of things: [[quid]] [[istaec]] tabellae narrant? Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 29: si res publica [[tibi]] narrare posset, [[quomodo]] [[sese]] haberet, Cic. Fam. 3, 1, 1: cum ejus [[oratio]] de [[animo]] tuo, de sermonibus, quos de me haberes cotidie, mihi narraret, id. ib. 3, 1, 1: narratur and narrant, it is said, [[they]] [[say]]: Paridis [[propter]] narratur amorem [[Graecia]] Barbariae [[lento]] collisa duello, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 6; Ov. H. 6, 19: versiculos in me narratur scribere [[Cinna]], Mart. 3, 9, 1; [[but]] narratur [[with]] acc. and inf. is [[rare]]: [[nunc]] Chamavos et Angrivarios immigrāsse narratur, Tac. G. 33 init.: eoque terrore aves [[tunc]] siluisse narratur, Plin. 35, 11, 28, § 121 (Jan. narrantque; cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 607): narrant, et in Ponto Caecian in se trahere [[nubes]], Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 126; 2, 106, 110, § 236; 32, 7, 24, § 75 et saep.: narror, narraris = narratur de me, de te, to be the [[subject]] of [[talk]], it is said of me, thee, etc.: rideor [[ubique]], narror, ostendor, Quint. Decl. 14, 12 init.: [[dulcis]] in Elysio narraris [[fabula]] campi, Mart. 12, 52, 5: Sibi narrare, to [[inform]] one's [[self]], [[learn]]: Cape has tabellas; [[tute]] [[hinc]] narrato [[tibi]], quae me [[miseria]] contabefecit, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 18.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., to [[say]], [[speak]], [[tell]]: narra, [[quid]] est, [[quid]] ait? Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 67: ego [[quid]] narres [[nescio]], Ter. And. 3, 1, 19; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 54: non [[possum]] [[satis]] narrare quos ludos praebueris [[intus]], id. Eun. 5, 7, 9: [[quantum]] distet ab Inacho [[Codrus]], Hor. C. 3, 19, 3.— Hence, [[narro]] [[tibi]], I [[tell]] [[you]], I [[assure]] [[you]], in [[fact]], [[seriously]], a form of [[asseveration]]: [[narro]] [[tibi]]: [[plane]] relegatus mihi videor, [[postea]] [[quam]] in Formiano [[sum]], Cic. Att. 2, 11, 1: [[narro]] [[tibi]], haec loca venusta sunt, abdita [[certe]], id. ib. 15, 16, B; 15, 21, 1: [[navita]] de ventis, de tauris narrat [[arator]], talks, Prop. 2, 1, 43: ne res per quemquam narraretur, Just. 1, 9, 19.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp., to [[dedicate]]: librum alicui, Plin. praef. § 1.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: narrātum, i, n., [[that]] [[which]] is told or narrated: hoc [[quoque]], Tiresia, [[praeter]] narrata petenti Responde, Hor. S. 2, 5, 1.
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