sumo

sūmō sūmpsī, sūmptus, ere

sub+cmo, to take, take up, take in hand, lay hold of, assume : a me argentum, T.: legem in manūs: litteras ad te a M. Lepido consule sumpsimus, have provided ourselves with : Tusculi ante quam Romae sumpta sunt arma, L.: perventum est eo, quo sumpta navis est, hired : pecuniam mutuam, borrow.—To take, eat, drink, consume, enjoy, put on : vinum, N.: Partem Falerni, H.: pomum de lance, O.: sumptā virili togā, put on : regium ornatum, N.— To take in exchange, buy, purchase : decumas agri Leontini: Quae parvo sumi nequeunt, H.—Fig., to take, take up, assume : tantos sibi spiritūs, ut, etc., assumed , Cs.: animum, take courage , O.: sumptis inimicitiis, susceptā causā.— To take up, under take, enter upon, begin : omne bellum sumi facile, to be undertaken , S.: bellum cum Veientibus sumptum, L.: Prima fide vocisque ratae temptamina, O.: Quem virum lyrā sumis celebrare?H.— To exact, inflict , with supplicium or poenam : more maiorum supplicium sumpsit, Cs.: de illā supplicium sumere: virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere: pro maleficio poenam sumi oportere: tam crudelīs poenas, to take such cruel revenge , V.— To take, choose, select : philosophiae studium: hoc mihi sumo, this is my choice : meliores liberos sumpsisse quam genuisse, i. e. to have adopted , S.: materiam vestris aequam Viribus, H.: mala, O.: disceptatorem, L.: Miltiadem imperatorem sibi, N.— To take, assume, claim, arrogate, appropriate : quamquam mihi non sumo tantum neque adrogo, ut, etc.: imperatorias sibi partīs, Cs.: Nec sumit aut ponit securīs Arbitrio popularis aurae, H.: voltūs acerbos, O.: antiquos mores, L.— To take, obtain, get, acquire, receive : distat sumasne pudenter An rapias, H.: laudem a crimine, O.: sumpto rigore, O.— To take, lay out, use, apply, employ, spend, consume : frustra operam, T.: laborem, Cs.: diem ad deliberandum, Cs.: cibi quietisque tempus, L.: curis sumptus, worn out , C.poët.—Of a speaker, to take for granted, assume, maintain, suppose, affirm : id sumere pro certo, quod dubium est: beatos esse deos: pro non dubio, aequius esse, etc., L.— To take, bring forward, cite, mention, adduce : homines notos sumere odiosum est: unum hoc sumo: quid quisquam potest ex omni memoriā sumere inlustrius?