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.)
SEND Copy link • SENDTo despatch from one place to another, mittere (general term): legare (to see on public business). To send away, ablegare (Terentianus); dimittere aliquem (Cic.): to send for, arcessere (implying that the party comes and appears); accire aliquem; aliquem evocare or excire (of magistrates; to summon anybody to appear before them): to send help to anybody, auxilium submittere alicui: to send forth, emittere: to send forth, i. e., publish, a book, librum emittere, edere: to send out, mittere; dimittere; circummittere (with or without in omnes partes); emittere (only as a military term, of the sending out a division of an army against an enemy; as Caes., B.G., 5, 19, 2, essedarios ex sylvis emittebat). To grant, Vid: To transmit, Vid: ☞ In English “to send” must be scribere in reference to sending news, etc., by letter. I hear a somewhat different report from what I sent you in my last, nescio quid aliter audio atque ad te scribebam. To send me (all the news), perscribere (omnes res urbanas, etc.).