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1. v. ascribere alicui allquid (ascribe anything, whether good or bad, to any body as its author, inventor, or cause): assignare alicui aliquid (refer anything to anybody as the person from whom it proceeds; to impute it in blame, or give the merit of it): addicere alicui aliquid (to declare anybody the author of a composition, Gell., 3, 3): tribuere or attribuere alicui aliquid (to attribute anything to anybody as its cause, whether guilty cause or not). To attribute the invention of anything to anybody, aliquid alicui inventori ascribere: the blame to anybody, alicui culpam tribuere or attribuere; culpam in aliquem conferre (throw it on him): culpam in aliquem vertere or transferre (from one’s self): to attribute anything to fear, aliquid timori assignare: ill success to anybody, alicui casum adversum tribuere; alicui incommodum ascribere: anything to one’s self alone, aliquid sibi soli ascribere: you hare attributed this to me, haec tibi a me eveniunt.

2. s. proprietas: proprium (the peculiar nature of anything): natura (nature): ratio: vis (the efficacy it possesses; its constitution): qualitas (peculiar constitution: coined by Cic. as a translation of παιότης). The divine attributes, dei (or deorum) natura.