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|lshtext=<b>ad-dīco</b>: xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (<br /><b>I</b> imp. addice, for addic, Plaut. Poen. 2, 50; addixti, Mart. 12, 16), orig., to [[give]] one's [[assent]] to a [[thing]] (“addicere est [[proprie]] [[idem]] dicere et approbare dicendo,” Fest. p. 13 Müll.), in its lit. signif. belonging [[only]] to augural and [[judicial]] [[language]] (opp. abdĭco).<br /><b>I</b> Of a favorable [[omen]], to be [[propitious]] to, to [[favor]], [[usually]] [[with]] aves as subj., and [[without]] obj.: cum sacellorum exaugurationes admitterent aves, in Termini [[fano]] non addixere, Liv. 1, 55, 3; so, Fabio auspicanti aves [[semel]] [[atque]] [[iterum]] non addixerunt, id. 27, 16, 15; also [[with]] [[auspicium]] as subj.: addicentibus auspiciis vocat contionem, Tac. A. 2, 14; cf. Drak. Liv. 1, 36, 3; 27, 16, 15.—And [[with]] acc. of obj.: illum quem aves addixerant, Fest. p. 241 Müll.—In [[judicial]] lang.: alicui aliquid or aliquem, to [[award]] or [[adjudge]] [[any]] [[thing]] to one, to [[sentence]]; [[hence]] [[Festus]], [[with]] [[reference]] to the adjudged or condemned [[person]], says: “[[alias]] addicere damnare est,” p. 13 Müll.: ubi in jus venerit, addicet [[praetor]] familiam totam [[tibi]], Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 57: bona alicui, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 52: [[addictus]] erat [[tibi]]? had he been [[declared]] [[bound]] to [[you]] for [[payment]]? id. Rosc. Com. 14, 41; [[hence]] ironic.: Fufidium . . . creditorem debitoribus suis addixisti, [[you]] [[have]] adjudged the [[creditor]] to his debtors ([[instead]] of the [[reverse]]), id. Pis. 35: liberum [[corpus]] in servitutem, Liv. 3, 56.—Hence subst., [[addictus]], i, m., one [[who]] has been given up or made [[over]] as [[servant]] to his [[creditor]]: ducite nos quo jubet, [[tamquam]] [[quidem]] addictos, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 87: [[addictus]] Hermippo et ab hoc [[ductus]] est, Cic. Fl. 20 extr.; cf. Liv. 6, 15, 20. (The [[addictus]], [[bondman]], [[was]] not [[properly]] a [[slave]] = [[servus]], for he retained his [[nomen]], [[cognomen]], his [[tribus]], [[which]] the [[servus]] did not [[have]]; he could [[become]] [[free]] [[again]] by [[cancelling]] the [[demand]], [[even]] [[against]] the [[will]] of his [[dominus]]; the [[servus]] could not; the [[addictus]], [[when]] [[set]] [[free]], [[was]] also [[again]] [[ingenuus]], the [[servus]] [[only]] [[libertinus]]; v. Quint. 7, 3, 27. The [[inhuman]] [[law]] of the Twelve Tables, [[which]], [[however]], [[was]] [[never]] [[put]] in [[execution]], [[that]] one [[indebted]] to [[several]] creditors should be [[cut]] in pieces and divided [[among]] [[them]], is mentioned by Gell. 20, 1: Niebuhr, Rom. Gesch. 1, 638; Smith's Antiq.): addicere alicui judicium, to [[grant]] one [[leave]] to [[bring]] an [[action]], Varr. L. L. 6, § 61 Müll.: addicere litem, sc. judici, to [[deliver]] a [[cause]] to the [[judge]]. This [[was]] the [[office]] of the [[praetor]]. Such is the [[purport]] of the [[law]] of XII. Tab. Tab. I.: POST MERIDIEM PRAESENTI STLITEM ADDICITO, ap. Gell. 17, 2: judicem or arbitrum ([[instead]] of [[dare]] judicium), to [[appoint]] for one a [[judge]] in his [[suit]], Dig. 5, 1, 39, 46 and 80: addicere aliquid in diem, to [[adjudge]] a [[thing]] to one ad [[interim]], so [[that]], [[upon]] a [[change]] of circumstances, the [[matter]] in [[question]] shall be restored in integrum, Dig. 18, 2; 6, 1, 41; 39, 3, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In auctions, to [[adjudge]] to the [[highest]] bidder, [[knock]] [[down]], [[strike]] [[off]], [[deliver]] to ([[with]] the [[price]] in abl.): [[ecquis]] est ex tanto [[populo]], qui bona C. Rabirii Postumi nummo sestertio sibi addici velit, Cic. Rab. Post. 17; so id. Verr. 2, 1, 55; Suet. Caes. 50.—Addicere bona alicujus in publicum, i. e. to [[confiscate]], Caes. B. C. 2, 18; [[hence]] in Plaut., of a [[parasite]], [[who]] strikes [[himself]] [[off]], as it were, i. e. promises [[himself]] to one as [[guest]], on [[condition]] [[that]] he does not in the [[mean]] [[time]] [[have]] a [[higher]] [[bid]], i. e. is not attracted to [[another]] by a [[better]] [[table]], Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 76 sq.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In gen., to [[sell]], to [[make]] [[over]] to: addice tuam mihi meretricem, Plaut. Poen. 2, 50: hominem invenire neminem potuit, cui meas [[aedes]] addiceret, traderet, donaret, Auct. Or. pro Dom. 41. [[Antonius]] regna addixit [[pecunia]], Cic. Phil. 7, 5, 15; so Hor. S. 2, 5, 109.—In a metaph. signif.,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> To [[deliver]], [[yield]], or [[resign]] a [[thing]] to one, [[either]] in a [[good]] or a [[bad]] [[sense]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> In a [[good]] [[sense]], to [[devote]], to [[consecrate]] to: [[senatus]], cui me [[semper]] addixi, Cic. Planc. 39, 93: agros omnes addixit deae, Vell. 2, 25; [[hence]], morti addicere, to [[devote]] to [[death]], Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45: nolite . . . omnem Galliam prosternere et perpetuae servituti addicere, to [[devote]] to [[perpetual]] [[slavery]], Caes. B. G. 7, 77.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> In a [[bad]] [[sense]], to [[give]] up, to [[sacrifice]], to [[abandon]] ([[very]] freq.); ejus ipsius domum evertisti, cujus sanguinem addixeras, Cic. Pis. 34, 83: libidini cujusque nos addixit, id. Phil. 5, 12, 33; so id. Mil. 32; id. Sest. 17; id. Quint. 30; [[hence]] [[poet]].: [[quid]] faciat? crudele, suos addicere amores, to [[sacrifice]], to [[surrender]] his [[love]], Ov. M. 1, 617 ([[where]] [[some]] [[read]] [[wrongly]] abdicere).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> In [[later]] Latin, to [[attribute]] or [[ascribe]] a [[work]] to one: quae (comoediae) nomini [[eius]] (Plauti) addicuntur, Gell. 3, 3, 13.—Hence, addic-tus, P. a. ([[after]] II. D.), dedicated or [[devoted]] to a [[thing]]; [[hence]],<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Destined to: gladiatorio generi mortis [[addictus]], Cic. Phil. 11, 7, 16; cf. Hor. Epod. 17, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Given up to, [[bound]] to: qui certis quibusdam destinatisque sententiis [[quasi]] addicti et consecrati sunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 2, 5: nullius [[addictus]] jurare in verba magistri, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 14: Prasinae factioni [[addictus]] et [[deditus]], Suet. Cal. 55.—Comp., [[sup]]., and adv. not used.