RELATE Copy link • RELATETo narrate, narrare alicui aliquid or de aliqua re (to describe and tell of): referre (to inform, report, whether by word of mouth or in writing; proper word of chronicles, annals, etc.): memorare, commemorare (to mention): prodere, with or without memoriae; posteris tradere; scriptum relinquere (to hand down to posterity; of historians): alicujus rei auctorem esse (to declare a thing, and more or less to pledge one’s self for its truth): exponere: explicare (to expound; opposed to summas tantum attingere): enarrare (to relate in order, and with all the circumstances): persequi (to go through anything, to relate it thoroughly): garrire (to chatter of anything; e.g., fabellas, Hor., Sat., 2, 6, 77, sq.): to relate at length, pluribus verbis exponere: to relate in due order, rem ordine enarrare: to relate diffusely, rem paullo altius repetere. To relate the progress of a thing, cuncta, ut sunt acta, exponere; enarrare alicui rem, quo pacto se habeat. A thing is related in two different ways, de aliqua re duplex memoria est (of traditions) or duplex fama est (of rumors). The event is related (traditionally) in different ways, variatur memoria actae rei: they relate (as a phrase; parenthetical), traditur, fertur. I cannot suffer this to be related, abhorret aliquid ab aurium approbatione. To have reference to, spectare ad aliquid: referri, referendum esse, ad aliquid: this relates to me, hoc ad me attinet.