adduco

Adduco, adducere, adduxi, adductum is third conjugation, ad- plus duco. Like duco it drops the -e in the singular imperative: adduc, not adduce. The perfect adduxi has the same x-for-c-plus-s spelling as duxi.

Physically it means to lead a person or animal to a place, with ad or in plus the accusative. Figuratively it means to bring someone to a state of mind, and here the participle adductus does most of the lifting: adductus spe, "induced by hope", adductus timore, "driven by fear", with a bare ablative of cause. The passive participle is so common in this sense that you can often read adductus as "persuaded". English adduce narrowed to a courtroom sense, bringing forward evidence, and adduct went off to anatomy, so neither is much help in reading the Latin.