narrar, to relate, tell. natural, natural; native.

referir, to relate, narrate, tell, mention, describe, report; refl., to refer, have to do, consist; ¿á qué se refiere?

relatar, to relate; las relataban, would tell of hiss deeds.

relate, m., narration, narrative, story.

The foregoing remarks relate almost exclusively to matters connected with our domestic concerns.

If you are disposed to credit the statement of those who relate that he was slain at the river Calor, the enemy got possession only of the head of Gracchus; which being brought to Hannibal, he immediately despatched Carthalo to convey it into the Roman camp to Cneius Cornelius, the quaestor, who buried the general in the camp, the Beneventans joining the army in the celebration.

Some authors relate that Cneius Scipio was slain on the eminence on the first assault of the enemy; others that he escaped with a few attendants to a castle near the camp; this, they say, was surrounded with fire, by which means the doors which they could not force were consumed; that it was thus taken, and all within, together with the general himself, put to death.

Some authors also relate, that he read the decree of the senate before he beheaded them, but that as there was a clause in it, to the effect, that if he thought proper he should refer the entire question to the senate, he construed it that the decision as to what was most for the interest of the state was left to himself.

Special orders relate to particular posts and duties.

He stands and has stood so long preëminent that I could relate but little of his history that would be new to you, so that I shall confine myself only to what has fallen under my own observation, and, of course, my remarks will be few.

The Prince Regent I had often seen before; the King of France I had a better sight of afterwards, as I will presently relate.

The apprehension which it becomes me to feel, in submitting these Poems to the judgment of the Public, may perhaps plead my excuse, for detaining the reader to relate, that they were written under the disadvantages of a confined education, and at an age too young for the attainment of an accurate taste.

" "That will I gladly relate, for all may draw from it a lesson;" So made the neighbor reply.

Now conclude the tale Of which thy brother only told me half Relate their end, who coming home from Troy, On their own threshold met a doom severe And most unlook'd for.

" With a quick perception that it was intended to relate to what she had asked, little Florence sat down on a stool at the nurse's feet, looking up into her face.

I shall in another, subsequent, place relate some of these miracles (narrated).

You relate a gruesome tale of some mysterious tragedy that you say has occurred there, and generally make your victim's flesh creep.

And some thirty years later, during a yachting excursion off the Scilly Isles, I saw an even more remarkable duel between a porbeagleas the Cornish people call the mackerel-sharkand a pipit, in which, strange to relate, the bird came off victorious.

Poetry never fails to relate itself to its age; if it is not with it, it is against it; it is never merely indifferent.

Owing, doubtless, to the incident I am about to relate, the light and warmth of that long-vanished day live with me still; I can see the great white clouds that moved across the strip of sky before my window, and feel again the spring languor which troubled my solitary work in the heart of London.

A government contract, more potent than the necromancy of the famed wizard Michael Scott, lifted this massive rock from its base, and, flying with it full two hundred miles, buried it fathoms below the surface of the Atlantic, at the Rip Raps, near Hampton Roads; and thus it happens that I cannot vouch the ocular proof of the Cave to certify the legend I am about to relate.

I may relate it in a few words.

He goes on to relate, that, after his return,[G] he sought out this lady, and made her his defence so effectually, that many persons spoke of it beyond the terms of courtesy, which weighed on him heavily.

After this poem was finished, Dante describes what he calls "a battle of thoughts" concerning Love within his mind, and then goes on to relate that it happened one day that he was taken, by a friend who thought to give him pleasure, to a feast at which many ladies were present.

But another source of interpretation is, the "comparison of a law with other laws, that are made by the same legislator, that have some affinity with the subject, or that expressly relate to the same point."