send Copy link Outline I. To throw, hurlII. To cause to be conveyed, despatch; both of persons and things1. mitto, 32. lēgo, 1 (to send on public business as an ambassador) • send: I. To throw, hurl: mitto, mīsi, missum, 3: to s. (let fly) javelins, pila m., Caes. B. C. 3, 93: Ov.: v. to throw, hurl. II. To cause to be conveyed, despatch; both of persons and things: 1. mitto, 3: they sent ambassadors to him to treat about surrender, legatos de deditione ad eum miserunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 27: et pass. See also send back, send for, etc. 2. lēgo, 1 (to send on public business as an ambassador): they sent an honourable and noble man as a deputation to Apronius, hominem honestum ac nobilem legarunt ad Apronium, Cic. Verr. 3, 48, 114: whom the Athenians had sent to Rome as ambassadors to the senate, quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum legaverant, Gell. 7, 14. (N.B.--To expr. English to send in sense of sending news by letter, use scribere or comp., he s.s word that he will quickly set out with the legions, in literis scribit se cum legionibus profectum celeriter fore, Caes. B. G. 5, 48.)