evinco

ē-vinco, vici, victum, 3, v. a. (not anteAug.).

I.

To overcome completely, to conquer, vanquish:

evicit omnia assuetus praedae miles,

Liv. 10, 17 fin.:

imbelles, Aeduos,

Tac. A. 3, 46.—

B.

Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq.):

lacrimis evicta,

overcome, Verg. A. 4, 548:

dolore,

to induce, id. ib. 4, 474:

precibus,

Ov. F. 3, 688; Tac. A. 4, 57 fin.:

blandimentis vitae,

id. ib. 15, 64:

donis,

i. e. to bribe, id. ib. 12, 49 et saep.:

in gaudium evicta domus,

moved, Tac. H. 2, 64 fin.; cf.:

ad miserationem,

id. A. 11, 37:

oppositas moles gurgite (amnis),

Verg. A. 2, 497.—Of dangerous places, to pass by in safely:

Charybdin remis (rates),

Ov. M. 14, 76:

fretum,

id. ib. 15, 706:

aequora,

id. H. 18, 155:

litora (Ponti),

id. Tr. 1, 10, 33:

os Ponti,

Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 98:

nubes (solis imago),

Ov. M. 14, 769:

somnos,

id. ib. 1, 685:

morbos,

Col. 6, 5, 2:

dolorem (with perferre),

Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36:

superbiam (miseratio),

Liv. 9, 6: luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos, vanquished, i. e. from which it has struggled free, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 2:

platanus caelebs Evincet ulmos,

i. e. will supplant them, Hor. C. 2, 15, 5; cf.:

evincit herbas lupinum,

Plin. 18, 21, 50, § 185.—Less freq.,

II.

To carry one's point, to prevail, succeed in a thing.

A.

In gen., with ut:

evincunt instando, ut, etc.,

Liv. 2, 4, 3; 38, 9, 7;

so,

id. 3, 41; 5, 26; Suet. Tib. 37.—With rel.-clause, Val. Fl. 1, 248.—

2.

In partic., jurid. t. t., to recover one's property by judicial decision:

sive tota res evincatur sive pars, etc.,

Dig. 21, 2; 1 sq.; cf. Cod. Just. 8, 45, and v. evictio.—

* B.

Transf., for convinco (2. b), to succeed in proving, to demonstrate, evince:

si puerilius his ratio esse evincet amare,

will evince, Hor. S. 2, 3, 250.