prescribe

prescribe
v. trans.
Order: P. and V. ἐπῐτάσσειν, προστάσσειν, τάσσειν, ἐπισκήπτειν.
Dictate: P. and V. ἐξηγεῖσθαι.
Prescribe for (a patient, etc.): P. and V. θερᾰπεύειν (acc.).
Prescribed, appointed: P. and V. προκείμενος.

PRESCRIBE

To 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.).

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).