adimo

ăd-ĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3, v. a. [emo] (adempsit = ademerit, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 27), to take to one's self from a person or thing, to take away, take any thing from, to deprive of (syn.: demere, eximere, auterre, eripere).

I.

Of things:

si ego memorem quae me erga fecisti bene, nox diem adimat,

would take away, consume, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 57: multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; multa recedentes adimunt, take them away with themselves, as a fine antithesis to secum ferunt, Hor. A. P. 175:

ut istas compedes tibi adimam, huic dem,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 31:

metum,

Ter. And. 2, 2, 2; so id. Heaut. 3, 1, 13; id. Hec. 5, 3, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 9:

Juppiter, ingentes qui das adimisque dolores,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 288:

animam,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 137:

postquam adempta spes est,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 4:

alicui vitam,

Cic. Planc. 42:

pecuniam,

id. Quint. 15, 49:

somnum,

id. Att. 2, 16:

libertatem,

id. Dom. 9:

exercitum,

id. Phil. 11, 8:

aditum litoris,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 32:

omnia sociis,

Sall. C. 12, 5:

arma militibus,

Liv. 22, 44:

vires ad vincendum,

id. 23, 18:

imperium,

id. 22, 27:

pernicitatem,

Tac. H. 1, 79.—And absol.:

Qui propter invidiam adimunt diviti,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 46.— Poet. with inf. as object:

adimam cantare severis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9 (cf. Gr. aphairêsomai aeidein, I will prohibit them to sing; so Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 47; Sil. 9, 425).—

II.

Poet. of persons, to snatch away, to carry off:

hanc, nisi mors, mihi adimet nemo,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 14:

virgo, quae puellas audis adimisque leto,

Hor. C. 3, 22, 3.—(For the distinction between demere, adimere, eximere, v. Lamb. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 31; Bentl. Hor. C. 4, 15, 18; and cf. Doed. Syn. IV. pp. 123-126.)