To write through, or to an end: to write at length or at large: to register or intoll. Diligentissimè te perscripta omnia. Cic. Al thinges were written of you at length with great diligence. Pleniora etiam atque vberiora Romam ad suos perscribebant. Cæsar. De suis rebus ad aliquem perscribere. Metellus Cicero. To write at large of, &c. Orationem mitissimam perscribere alicui. Cic. Rationes scitè & literatè perscribere. Cic. Versum puris perscribere verbis. Horat. Versu perscribere aliquid. Ouid. Perscribere. Cic. To register or enroll. Dicta omnia iudicum perscribere. Cic. To register all the sayinges of the Iudges. Senatusconsultum perscribere. Cic. Perscribere in tabulas publicas. Cic. To regisler. Perscribere pecuniam. Terent. To cause money to be deliuered to one frõ the banker, either in way of lone or otherwise. Pecuniam in ædem sacram reficiendam perscribere, Cicero. Perscriptum. Cic. A thing put in writing.

I. Lit., to write in full or at length, to write out, to write without abbreviations (cf.: conscribo, compono): verbo non perscripto, not being written in full, Tiro Tullius ap. Gell. 10, 1, 7: in M. Catonis quartā Origine ita perscriptum est, written out, written in full, Gell. 10, 1, 10: notata, non perscripta erat summa, Suet. Galb. 5: est circa perscribendas vel paucioribus litteris notandas voces studium necessarium, Val. Prob. Not. Sign. 1.—

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A. To write a full description of, to write in full or at length, to write out: nunc velim mihi plane perscribas, quid videas, Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2: de meis rebus ad Lollium perscripsi, id. Fam. 5, 3, 2: hoc perscriptum in monumentis veteribus reperietis, ut, etc., id. Agr. 2, 32, 88: res populi Romani a primordio urbis, Liv. praef. init.: versum puris verbis, Hor. S. 1, 4, 54. —

B. To write or note down; to enter, register, Caes. B. C. 1, 6: quoniam nondum perscriptum est senatūs consultum, ex memoriā vobis, quid senatus censuerit exponam, Cic. Cat. 3, 6, 13: in tabulas publicas ad aerarium perscribenda curavit, id. Verr. 1, 21, 57; 2, 1, 35, 89.—Hence, tabulae ubi aera perscribantur usuraria, i. e. inscribed, but never paid out, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 53.—Esp., of entering in an account-book: falsum nomen, Cic. Rosc. Com. 1, 1.—

C. To write a full account of to any one, to announce, relate, or describe in writing or by letter: rem gestam in Eburonibus perscribit, Caes. B. G. 5, 47; id. B. C. 1, 53: perscribit in litteris hostes ab se discessisse, id. B. G. 5, 49: orationem alicui, Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 2: omnia, id. ib. 14, 5, 1.—

D. To make over in writing, to assign any thing to any one: argentum perscripsi illis, quibus debui, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 30: pecuniam, Cic. Fl. 19, 44; cf. id. Att. 16, 2, 1: si quid usurae nomine numeratum aut perscriptum fuisset, Suet. Caes. 42; cf. Liv. 24, 18.—

E. To draw a line across, to cross a written character = diagra/fein (post-class.): as nummus est libralis et per I perscriptam notatur : dupondius nummus est bilibris per duas II perscriptas H, etc.... denarius quoque decem librarum nummus per X perscriptam notatur , Prisc. de Ponder. p. 1347 P.