• DRAG

1.

• s. Car drawn by the hand, traha (without wheels; Col. 2, 20, 4: a little drag., tragula, Varr., L.L., 5, 31, 39).
• Instrument with hooks (for dragging a river to find a dead body, etc.), harpogo (general term; for an instrument with which to snatch anything).
• Dragnet; Vid :

2. v. TRANS., trahere (general term in almost every meaning of the English verb; fessum corpus vix trahere posse; trahere reos pedibus; aliquem tribus catenis vinctum; Hectorem circa sua Pergama, Ov.; aliquem ad Praetorem; virginem passis crinibus a templo, Verg.; and IMPROP.; animum exigua spe, Liv.; aliquem secum in eandem calamitatem: to drag on a wretched existence, vitam, Plin.; and = “protract,” bellum, pugnam, aliquem diu; rem in serum, Liv.): rapere (☞ raptare, poetical; to drag along by irresistible force with the notion of resistance on the part of the person dragged): abstrahere: abripere (to drag away from or to a place): to drag forth, extrahere (e.g., aliquem domo latitantem, Cic.; aliquem elatebra, Suet.; senatores vi in publicum, Cic.; also = to protract, rem, certamen, etc.): protrahere (e.g., aliquem capillis in viam, Plaut.; aliquem ad judicium, Liv.; aliquem tenebris, Val. Max. and in Suet., etc. = “protract,” for which trahere, extrahere, or producere are used by writers of the Golden Age). To drag anybody to execution, aliquem rapere ad supplicium or mortem: to drag anybody before a court, aliquem rapere in jus: to drag anybody with one, trahere aliquem secum. Vid: To DRAW.

3.

• INTRANS., To drag (of a gown, etc.), verrere terram (after Claudius, Stilich., 2, 248): to let it drag, trahere.
• To drag for fish, *everriculo piscari or pisces capere.