prescribe Copy link Outline I. To dictateII. To order a medicine1. praescrībo, 32. prōpōno, 3 • prescribe: I. To dictate: praescrībo, psi, ptum, 3: I p. to the Senate what has to be done, Senatui quae sunt agenda praescribo, Cic. Sen. 6, 18. To act according to a p.d rule, ad praescriptum agere, Caes. B. C. 3, 51. See also to instruct (II.). II. To order a medicine: 1. praescrībo, 3: cf. Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123, curationem valetudinis pr.: M. L. 2. prōpōno, 3: Nep. Att. 21 (remedia celeria faciliaque proponebantur, sc. a medicis).
PRESCRIBE Copy link • PRESCRIBETo command, praecipere, or praescribere alicui aliquid, or with ut: to prescribe to anybody what to do, praescribere alicui quae agenda sunt: to prescribe a rule or law to one’s self, sibi ipsi aliquid praescribere, or legem scribere, statuere. (As a physician), medicamenta praescribere (Cic.): for a disease, morbo remedium proponere (Nep.): valetudinis curationem praescribere (Cic.).