abs-trăho — Lewis & Short
abs-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (abstraxe = abstraxisse,
Lucr. 3, 650),I to draw away from a place or person, to drag or pull away.
I Lit.
A In gen.:
ut me a Glycerio miserum abstrahat,Ter. And. 1, 5, 8; so,
liberos ab aliquo,Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 5:
aliquem de matris complexu avellere atque abstrahere,Cic. Font. 21 (17):
aliquem e gremio e sinuque patriae,id. Cael. 24, 59;
for which, aliquem gremio,Ov. M. 13, 658:
aliquem raptim ex oculis hominum,Liv. 39, 49, 12:
naves e portu,id. 37, 27, 6 (al. a portu):
aliquem a conspectu omnium in altum,Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145 (corresp. with, a terra abripuit).—Absol.:
bona civium Romanorum diripiunt ... in servitutem abstrahunt,Caes. B. G. 7, 42, 3:
navem remulco abstraxit,id. B. C. 2, 23. —
B Esp., to withdraw, alienate from a party:
copias a Lepido,Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3:
Germanicum suetis legionibus,Tac. A. 2, 5.
II Trop., to draw away, withdraw, divert:
animus se a corpore abstrahet,Cic. Rep. 6, 26:
a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit (for which in the preced., avocare),id. de Sen. 6:
me a nullius commodo,id. Arch. 6, 12:
aliquem a malis, non a bonis,id. Tusc. 1, 34 fin. al.:
magnitudine pecuniae a bono honestoque in pravum abstractus est,Sall. J. 29, 2:
omnia in duas partes abstracta sunt, respublica, quae media fuerat, dilacerata,id. ib. 41, 5.—Hence, abstractus, a, um, P. a.; in the later philosophers and grammarians, abstract (opp. concrete):
quantitas,Isid. Or. 2, 24, 14.