proferre: afferre [☞ not producere; and it is better to avoid adducere, for which Sen., De Ir., 2, 16, 2, is the only passage cited, ea animalia in exemplum hominis adducit, quibus, etc. Krebs allows citare with or without testes or auctores. Livy has magistratuum libros Macer Licinius citat identidem auctores]: laudare (to quote with approbation): notare (with censure): memorare: commemorare: ponere: proponere (of examples). To quote as authority, auctorem laudare or memorare (Cic.) or citare (Liv.): a passage, locum afferre; dictum scriptoris commemorare; referre (often, habitually); usurpare: I like better to quote examples from Grecian history than from our own, malo Graecorum quam nostra proferre: I will quote this one example, ponam illud unum exemplum: to quote the words of an author without naming him, auctorem ad verbum transcribere, neque nominare (Plin., H.N.).