REACH Copy link • REACH 1. v. Intransitively, (A) PROP., (1) To extend, stretch, pertinere: porrigi: attingere: patere (Cic.): excurrere; procurrere [SYN. in EXTEND]. (2) To attain by the hand or the body, attingere: contingere: To be able to reach with one’s hand, manu attingere, contingere, posse aliquid: I cannot reach so far, istum locum attingere, contingere nequeo; eo usque manus porrigere non possum. (B) Figuratively, (1) To overtake, assequi, consequi; adipisci (to arrive with exertion at a point; to reach at last; locum or aliquem). (2) To equal, consequi, assequi (to equal a person in any property or quality; assequi usually to attain to the quality or property itself): adaequare: exaequare (to attain to a property or quality). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exaequare et assequi; aequare (to equal a person in a property; rarely = attain a property). The heaps of arms reached the top of the walls, muri altitudinem acervi armorum adaequabant: to reach the number of anything, multitudinem alicujus rei assequi et exaequare: to endeavor to reach a person or thing, aliquem or aliquid imitari: not to be able to reach anybody (by imitating), aliquem imitando consequi non posse: to reach with words, or a description, oratione assequi; verbis aequare; dicendo aequare (to make a representation equal to the greatness of a subject, Plin., Ep., 8, 4, 3). (3) To come to a place, pervenire ad or in with an accusative (general term): attingere locum (to touch, approach): capere locum (to gain a place, especially from the sea to land; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 4, 26, extr.). To reach a harbor, portum capere; in portum pervenire, pervehi: to reach a very great age, ad summam senectutem pervenire: to reach the ears of anybody, ad alicujus aures pervenire; ab aliquo audiri. Transitively, porrigere; praebere: suppeditare: suggerere alicui aliquid. To reach a hand, manum alicui porrigere, praebere. 2. s. Power of attainment, by circumlocution with quod manu prehendi, quod contingi, potest (within grasp, PROP.): *quod adipisci queas; *quod obtineri potest (figuratively): captus (capacity). Extent, space, Vid: Part of a river between two windings, spatium: tractus. A thrust, Vid.