intrō-dūcō dūxī, ductus, ere, to lead in, bring in, introduce, conduct within, admit: Chremem, T.: noctu milites, S.: praesidium, Cs.: suas copias in finīs, Cs.: in cubiculum introductus: ad regem, Cu.: eo navīs, Cs.

—Fig., to bring in, introduce: philosophiam in domūs: ambitionem in senatum.

—In speaking, to introduce, represent, bring forward: Catonem senem disputantem: introducta rei similitudo.

—To bring forward as an assertion, insist, maintain: natum mundum.

—To institute, found, establish: hac introductā consuetudine: novum in re p. exemplum, set, Cs.: exemplum a patricio homine introductum, L.