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|lshtext=<b>con-trăho</b>: xi, ctum, 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. a., to [[draw]] or [[bring]] [[several]] objects [[together]], to [[collect]], [[assemble]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. (syn. [[colligo]]; opp. [[dissipo]]): quae in rerum naturā constarent quaeque moverentur, ea contrahere amicitiam, dissipare discordiam, Cic. Lael. 7, 24: cohortes ex finitimis regionibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 15: exercitum in unum locum, id. B. G. 1, 34; cf.: omnes copias Luceriam, Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2; and: omnia in unum locum, id. ib. 8, 11, B, 3: omnes copias eo, Nep. Ages. 3, 1: navibus [[circiter]] LXXX. coactis, contractisque, Caes. B. G. 4, 22; cf.: magnam classem, Nep. Con. 4, 4: naves, Suet. Calig. 19: agrestes, Ov. F. 4, 811: captivos, Liv. 37, 44, 3: utrumque ad [[colloquium]], id. 28, 18, 2: [[undique]] libros, Suet. Aug. 31; cf. exemplaria, id. Gram. 24: muscas in manu, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 122; cf. serpentes, id. 28, 9, 42, § 151: ii, qui in [[idem]] ([[collegium]]) contracti fuerint, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 34 (43), 1—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[bring]] [[about]], [[carry]] [[into]] [[effect]], [[accomplish]], [[execute]], [[get]], [[contract]], [[occasion]], [[cause]], [[produce]], [[make]], etc. ([[very]] freq.): amicitiam, Cic. Lael. 14, 48: [[vinculum]] amicitiae, Val. Max. 4, 7 init.: aliquid litigii, Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 31; cf. lites, id. Capt. prol. 63: qui hoc mihi contraxit, id. Cas. 3, 2, 21; cf.: [[negotium]] mihi, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 9; and: numinis iram mihi ([[arte]]), Ov. M. 2, 660: [[bellum]] Saguntinis, Liv. 24, 42, 11: aliquid damni, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 91: molestias, id. Fam. 2, 16, 5; cf. Sall. H. 2, 41, 8 Dietsch: aes alienum, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: causam certaminis, Liv. 22, 28, 4; cf. [[certamen]], id. 23, 26, 11; 25, 34, 10 al.: necessitates ad [[bellum]], id. 44, 27, 12: culpam, to incur, Cic. Att. 11, 24, 1 al.: cruditatem, Quint. 7, 3, 38; cf. id. 2, 10, 6: morbum, Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 65: pestilentiam, id. 36, 27, 69, § 202: saginam corporis, Just. 21, 2: causam valetudinis ex profluvio alvi, Suet. Aug. 97 fin. et saep.: [[porca]] contracta, owed, [[due]], sc. for the [[expiation]] of a [[crime]], Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the lang. of [[business]], t. t., to [[make]] a [[contract]], [[conclude]] a [[bargain]], to [[contract]]: rationem, rem cum [[illo]], Cic. Clu. 14, 41; cf. id. Off. 1, 17, 53; id. Sull. 20, 56; id. Att. 7, 7, 7: in tribuendo suum cuique et rerum contractarum [[fide]], id. Off. 1, 5, 14: ex rebus contrahendis, id. ib. 3, 15, 61: in contrahendis negotiis, id. ib. 2, 11, 40: adfinitas [[inter]] Caesarem et Pompeium contracta nuptiis, Vell. 2, 44, 3 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Transf. [[beyond]] the [[sphere]] of [[business]]: cum [[aliquo]], to [[have]] [[intercourse]] [[with]], to [[associate]] [[with]], Cic. Off. 1, 2, 4: [[nihil]] cum [[populo]], id. Tusc. 5, 36, 105.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., [[with]] the prevailing [[idea]] of shortening or diminishing by [[drawing]] [[together]] (cf.: [[cogo]], [[colligo]], etc.), to [[draw]] [[close]] or [[together]], to [[draw]] in, [[contract]], [[shorten]], [[narrow]], [[lessen]], [[abridge]], [[diminish]] (freq. and [[class]].; opp. [[porrigo]], [[dilato]], [[tendo]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: [[animal]] omne membra [[quocumque]] [[volt]] flectit, contorquet, porrigit, contrahit, Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120: pulmones tum se contrahunt adspirantes, tum intrante spiritu dilatant, id. N. D. 2, 55, 136: contractum [[aliquo]] morbo [[bovis]] cor, id. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.: se [[millepeda]] tactu, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 136: bina cornua (opp. protendere), id. 9, 32, 51, § 101: [[collum]]. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41; opp. tendere, Quint. 11, 3, 82: frontem, to [[wrinkle]], [[contract]], Cic. Clu. 26, 72; Hor. S. 2, 2, 125: supercilia (opp. deducere), Quint. 11, 3, 79: [[medium]] digitum in pollicem, id. 11, 3, 92; cf.: contractum genibus tangas [[caput]], Hor. S. 2, 7, 61: gravissimo frigore [[solus]] [[atque]] [[contractus]] vigilabit in lectulo, Hier. Ep. 53: [[castra]], Caes. B. G. 7, 40: [[vela]], Hor. C. 2, 10, 23; Quint. 12, prooem. § 4; cf. Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2: orbem (lunae), Ov. M. 15, 198: umbras, id. ib. 3, 144: orationem ([[with]] summittere), Quint. 11, 1, 45; cf. id. 12, 11, 16: tempora dicendi, id. 6, 5, 4 et saep.: lac, to [[curdle]], [[coagulate]], Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 117.—Of bees: [[contracto]] frigore pigrae ( = contractae frigore [[pigro]]), Verg. G. 4, 259; cf.: pigrum est [[enim]] contractumque [[frigus]], Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 2: horrida [[tempestas]] contraxit [[caelum]], [[narrows]], Hor. Epod. 13, 1: vulnera, Plin. 24, 8, 33, § 48; cf. cicatrices, id. 12, 17, 38, § 77: ventrem, to [[stop]], [[check]], Cels. 4, 19; cf. alvum, id. ib.: vomitiones, Plin. 20, 2, 6, § 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., archit. t. t., to [[narrow]], [[make]] smaller or tapering: columnam, Vitr. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. 3, 3, 12; 4, 7, 2: [[pyramis]] XXIV. gradibus in metae [[cacumen]] se contrahens, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 31.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., to [[draw]] in, [[lessen]], [[check]], [[restrain]] ( = certis limitibus [[quasi]] coartare et circumscribere; opp. remittere, diffundere): cui non [[animus]] formidine [[divum]] contrahitur? Lucr. 5, 1219; cf.: te [[rogo]], ne contrahas ac demittas animum, do not [[suffer]] [[your]] spirits to [[droop]], Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4; and: animos [[varietas]] sonorum (opp. remittere), id. Leg. 2, 15, 38: terram [[quasi]] tristitiā (sol; opp. laetificas), id. N. D. 2, 40, 102: ut et bonis amici [[quasi]] diffundantur et incommodis contrahantur, are made [[sad]], id. Lael. 13, 48 (cf. id. Tusc. 4, 6, 14): ex quibus intellegitur, [[appetitus]] omnes contrahendos sedandosque, id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf. cupidmem, Hor. C. 3, 16, 39 et saep. —Hence, [[contractus]], a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), [[drawn]] [[together]] [[into]] a [[narrow]] [[space]], i. e. [[compressed]], [[contracted]], [[close]], [[short]], [[narrow]], [[abridged]], restricted, [[limited]], etc.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: tanto contractioribus ultimis digitis, Quint. 11, 3, 95: [[nares]] contractiores habent [[introitus]], Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 145: contractior [[ignis]], smaller, Lucr. 5, 569: aequora, Hor. C. 3, 1, 33; cf. freta, Ov. F. 6, 495: [[locus]] ([[with]] [[exiguus]]), Verg. G. 4, 295: [[Nilus]] contractior et exilior, Plin. [[Pan]]. 30, 3: contractiora spatia ordinum, Col. 5, 5, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[language]], etc.: et [[brevis]] [[ambitus]] verborum, Cic. Brut. 44, 162; cf.: contractior [[oratio]], id. ib. 31, 120: [[propositum]] dicendi (opp. [[uberius]]), Quint. 11, 1, 32: summissā [[atque]] contractā voce (opp. erectā et concitatā), id. 11, 3, 175; so, vox, id. 11, 3, 64: parvum [[opusculum]] lucubratum his jam contractioribus noctibus, Cic. Par. prooem. § 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.: quae studia in his jam aetatibus nostris contractiora esse debent, Cic. Cael. 31, 76: [[paupertas]], [[stinted]], Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20 (cf.: angusta [[pauperies]], id. C. 3, 2, 1); in the [[same]] [[sense]] transf. to the [[person]]: ad [[mare]] descendet [[vates]] [[tuus]] et sibi parcet Contractusque leget, [[retired]], [[solitary]], id. ib. 1, 7, 12; cf. [[homo]], Verg. M. 78.— Adv.: contractē, on a [[contracted]] [[scale]]; [[only]] in comp.: assuescamus. servis paucioribus serviri, habitare contractius, Sen. Tranq. 9, 3; Lact. 2, 8, 39 al.