ascribere alicui aliquid (to attribute anything, whether good or bad, to anybody, as its author, inventor, or cause): assignare alicui aliquid (to attribute anything to anybody, as proceeding from him; to impute it to him as a fault, or ascribe it to him as a merit): addicere alicui aliquid (to pronounce anybody the author of a writing, book, etc., Gell., 3, 3): tribuere or attribuere alicui aliquid (to represent anybody as the cause of anything; to lay the blame of it upon him). To ascribe the invention of anything to anybody, aliquid alicui inventori ascribere: to ascribe anything to fear, aliquid timori assignare: to ascribe an evil, a mischance, etc., to anybody, alicui casum adversum tribuere; alicui incommodum ascribere. You ascribe all this to me, haec tibi a me eveniunt.