GRASP Copy link • GRASP 1. v. To clutch, rapere: arripere aliquid (violently): involare in aliquid (IMPROP., to fly upon anything for the purpose of taking immediate possession of it; e.g., in alienas possessiones): prehendere (to seize upon anything, to hold it): corripere aliquid (to snatch at anything eagerly). To endeavor to grasp anything, aliquid appetere manibus: to grasp anything eagerly, avide arripere aliquid. INTRANS., To grasp at = endeavor to obtain (in a bad sense), affectare (e.g., at empire, regnum, Liv.; so dominationes, Sall., ap. Aug., Civ. Dei, 3, 17; not Cic.): petere: appetere aliquid (to seek to obtain): sectari: consectari (to pursue): aucupari (to lie in wait for an opportunity of seizing anything): manus afferre or adhibere alicui rei (IMPROP.; to stretch out one’s hands for the purpose of taking possession; e.g., vectigalibus; alienis bonis). To grasp at what does not belong to one, alienum appetere (Phaedrus; et alieni appotens, Sall.). To grasp at every, even the emptiest shadow of glory, omnes etiam umbras falsae gloriae consectari (Cic.). 2. s. [Vid. HOLD, s.] ; e.g., to come into anybody’s grasp, in manus alicujus venire: to rescue or snatch anything from anybody’s grasp, aliquid e or ex manibus, or ex faucibus alicujus eripere.