A laying claim to

vindĭco (on account of a supposed derivation from venum - dico, also written vendĭco), āvi, ātum, 1 (collat. form, acc. to the 3d conj., VINDICIT, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1 fin.), v. a. [vim - dico, prop. to assert authority, viz. in a case where legal possession of a thing claimed is refused; hence, transf.], to lay legal claim to a thing, whether as one's own property or for its restoration to a free condition.

Lit.: IN. IVS. DVCITO. NI IVDICATVM FACIT AVT QVIS ENDO EOM IVRE VINDICIT, i. e. eum in jure vindicat, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf., on the form of laying claim to disputed personal property, Gai Inst. 4, 16:

vindicare sponsam in libertatem,

Liv. 3, 45, 11; cf. id. 3, 48, 5; 3, 46, 7:

puellam,

id. 3, 46, 3:

ita vindicatur Virginia spondentibus propinquis,

id. 3, 46, 8.—

Transf., in gen. (freq. and class.; cf. assero).

To lay claim to as one's own, to make a claim upon, to demand, claim, arrogate, assume, appropriate a thing:

omnia non Quiritium sed sapientium jure pro suis vindicare,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 27:

videor id meo jure quodam modo vindicare,

id. Off. 1, 1, 2:

Homerum... Chii suum vindicant,

id. Arch. 8, 19:

ortūs nostri partem patria vindicat,

id. Off. 1, 7, 22:

maximam partem quasi suo jure Fortuna sibi vindicat,

id. Marcell. 2, 6:

ceterarum rerum quae sunt in oratore, partem aliquam sibi quisque vindicat,

id. Or. 19, 69:

quod neque summi imperatores... sibi umquam vindicare sunt ausi,

Quint. 1, prooem. §

14: partem oneris tui mihi vindico,

Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2:

majestatem sibi,

id. Pan. 42, 1:

partis sibi aequas potentiae,

Suet. Tib. 50; id. Tit. 5; Sen. Ira, 3, 30, 3; id. Cons. Helv. 3, 9; id. Q. N. 1, 1, 10; Val. Max. 4, 3, 1; 5, 3, ext. 2; cf. Plin. Pan. 8, 2; Val. Max. 4, 5, 3: iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est; prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur, Tac. Agr. 27:

victoriae majore parte ad se vindicatā,

Liv. 44, 14, 8:

decus belli ad se,

id. 9, 43, 14:

tanta tamen universae Galliae consensio fuit libertatis vindicandae, ut, etc.,

should be maintained, vindicated, Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

Trasimenum pro Tarsimeno multi auctores... vindicaverunt,

have adopted, Quint. 1, 5, 13; so id. 1, 5, 26:

vindicet antiquam faciem, vultusque ferinos Detrahat,

reassume, Ov. M. 2, 523.— Poet., with inf.:

vindicat hoc Pharius dextrā gestare satelles,

Luc. 8, 675.—

To place a thing in a free condition.

In libertatem vindicare, to set free, to free, emancipate:

in libertatem rem populi,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48:

ex dominatu Ti. Gracchi in libertatem rem publicam,

id. Brut. 58, 212:

rem publicam afflictam et oppressam in veterem dignitatem ac libertatem,

i. e. to restore, id. Fam. 2, 5, 2:

Galliam in libertatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

se et populum Romanum in libertatem,

id. B. C. 1, 22.—

To deliver, liberate, protect, defend:

te ab eo vindico et libero,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9:

nos a verberibus, ab unco, a crucis terrore neque res gestae neque acta aetas neque vestri honores vindicabunt?

id. Rab. Perd. 5, 16:

sapientia sola nos a libidinum impetu et formidinum terrore vindicat,

id. Fin. 1, 14, 46:

quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?

id. Fl. 17, 40:

aliquem a miseriis morte,

id. Brut. 96, 329:

a molestiā,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 2:

a labore,

id. Sull. 9, 26:

domum suam a solitudine,

id. de Or. 1, 45, 199:

laudem summorum oratorum ab oblivione hominum atque a silentio,

rescue, id. ib. 2, 2, 7:

sed ab hac necessitate egregie vos fortuna vindicat,

Liv. 37, 54, 10:

corpora a putrescendo (sal),

Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 98:

ebur a carie (vetus oleum),

id. 15, 7, 7, § 32:

capillum a canitie,

id. 28, 11, 46, § 164:

se non modo ex suspitione tanti sceleris, verum etiam ex omni hominum sermone,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

perpetienda illa fuerunt, ut se aliquando ad suos vindicaret,

might restore, id. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

quam dura ad saxa revinctam Vindicat Alcides,

sets free, Ov. M. 11, 213:

tandem absolutus vindicatusque est (reus),

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 1.—

With respect to some wrong perpetrated (cf. ulciscor), to avenge, revenge, punish; to take vengeance on any one; make compensation for:

omnia quae vindicaris in altero, sibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 4:

maleficium in aliis vindicare,

id. Sull. 6, 19:

facinus in nullo etiam,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

dolum malum et legibus,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61. acerrime maleficia, id. Rosc. Am. 5, 12:

consensionem improborum supplicio omni,

id. Lael. 12, 43:

eam rem quam vehementer,

id. Quint. 7, 28:

Ti. Gracchi conatus perditos,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

necem Crassi,

Ov. F. 6, 468:

offensas ense,

id. Tr. 3, 8, 40:

fortuita non civium tantummodo sed urbium damna principis munificentia vindicat,

Vell. 2, 126, 4.— Impers. pass.:

fateor non modo in socios, sed etiam in cives militesque nostros persaepe esse severe ac vehementer vindicatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 133:

vindicandum in eos,

Sall. J. 31, 18:

vindicatum in eos, qui, etc.,

id. C. 9, 4; cf.:

in quos (Venetos) eo gravius Caesar vindicandum statuit, quo diligentius, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 16.—

Transf. (after the analogy of ulcisci): vindicare se ab (de) aliquo, to revenge one's self upon one:

se ab illo,

Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 3:

se de fortunā praefationibus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 14.— Pass.:

quantā saevitiā opus erat, ut Sulla de Mario vindicaretur,

Flor. 3, 21, 19.

pĕtītĭo, ōnis, f. [peto].

Lit., an attack, a blow, thrust, pass:

tuas petiti ones effugi,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15; cf.:

petitiones proprie dicimus impetus gladiorum,

Serv. Verg. A. 9, 439.—

Trop., an attack made in words before a court of justice, Cic. Or. 68, 228;

or in debate,

id. Cat. 1, 6, 15; cf.:

novi omnis hominis petitiones rationesque dicendi,

methods of attack, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. de Or. 3, 54, 206.—

In gen., a requesting, beseeching; a request, petition for any thing (postAug.), Plin. 29, 4, 19, § 66: huic quoque petitioni tuae negare non sustineo, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 7 (23); Gell. 11, 16, 8 al.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.), a request offered to God, a prayer:

impleat Dominus omnes petitiones tuas,

Vulg. Psa. 19, 6; id. Phil. 4, 6; id. 1 Johan. 5, 15: petitionem offerre Domino Deo, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 16, 1, 4.—

In partic.

An applying or soliciting for office, an application, solicitation, candidacy, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1:

petitioni se dari,

to become a candidate for office, id. Fam. 13, 10, 2:

consulatus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 22:

pontificatūs,

Sall. C. 49, 2:

regni,

Just. 1, 10, 17:

tribunatūs et aedilitatis,

Val. Max. 6, 9, 14:

dare alicui petitionem consulatūs,

to admit one as a candidate for the consulship, Suet. Caes. 26:

abstinere petitione honorum,

Tac. A. 2, 43; Suet. Caes. 28:

petitioni se dare,

to solicit an office, Cic. Fam. 13, 10.—

A laying claim to any thing, a suit, petition, in private or civil cases (opp. the accusatio, in criminal cases):

petitio pecuniae,

Quint. 4, 4, 6:

hereditatis,

Dig. 44, 5, 3:

integram petitionem relinquere,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 56.—

A right of claim, a right to bring an action of recovery:

cavere, neminem, cujus petitio sit, petiturum,

Cic. Brut. 5, 18; Dig. 2, 14, 56.

vindĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.].

In jurid. lang., a laying claim to a thing, a civil action or lawsuit for a thing, Gai Inst. 2, 24; [p. 1993] 4, 16 sq.; Dig. 44, 7, 24; cf.:

De rei vindicatione,

Dig. 6, tit. 1: intestatorum civium concessam vindicationem bonorum adfirmare, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 88.—

A taking into protection, a protection, defence, vindication: an avenging, punishment of an offence:

vindicatio est, per quam vim et contumeliam defendendo aut ulciscendo propulsamus a nobis et a nostris, qui nobis esse cari debent: et per quam peccata punimus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 66; 2, 53, 161.

as-sĕro ( ads-, K. and H., Müller), sēvi, situm, 3, v. a., to sow, plant, or set near something (very rare;

not in Cic.), Agroet. de Orthogr. p. 2274 P.: vites,

Cato, R. R. 32 fin.:

vitis adsita ad olus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 16 fin.:

vites propter cupressos,

id. ib. 1, 26: Lenta quin velut adsitas Vitis implicat arbores, * Cat. 61, 102: populus adsita certis Limitibus, * Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 170 (quippe quae vitibus maritaretur, Agroet. l. c.).

as-sĕro ( ads-, Ritschl, Fleckeisen, Merk., Halm, Weissenb.), sĕrŭi, sertum, 3, v. a., to join some person or thing to one's self; hence,

As a jurid. t. t. (so this word is most freq. found; cf. assertor and assertio).

Aliquem manu, in libertatem or liberali causā (also merely manu, and finally absol. adserere), to declare one (a slave) to be free by laying hands upon him, to set free, to liberate:

adserere manu in libertatem...,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.:

qui in libertatem adserebant,

Suet. Vit. 10:

se adserit in libertatem,

Dig. 47, 10, 11 fin.:

in iis qui adserantur in libertatem, quia quivis lege agere possit, id juris esse,

Liv. 3, 45; so,

in ingenuitatem,

Suet. Aug. 74:

se ingenuitati,

Dig. 40, 14, 2:

manu eas adserat Suas populares liberali causā,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 83:

manuque liberali causā ambas adseras,

id. ib. 5, 2, 142: si quisquam hanc liberali adseruisset manu, id. Curc. 5, 2, 68:

ego liberali illam adsero causā manu,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40: cum in causā liberali eum, qui adserebatur cognatum, suum esse diceret, * Cic. Fl. 17, 40:

neminem venire, qui istas adsereret manu,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 11:

illam a lenone adserito manu,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 83;

and transf.: pisces manu adserere,

id. Rud. 4, 3, 34:

adserui jam me fugique catenas,

Ov. Am. 3, 11, 3 Merk.; Suet. Vesp. 3; id. Gram. 21.—

Aliquem in servitutem, to declare one to be a slave by laying the hand upon him, to claim as a slave:

M. Claudio clienti negotium dedit (Ap. Claudius), ut virginem in servitutem adsereret,

Liv. 3, 44; so Suet. Tib. 2; Liv. 34, 18; 35, 16 fin. —

After the poets of the Aug. per., transf. from the judicial sphere to common life.

(Acc. to I. A.) To free from, to protect, defend, defend against (esp. freq. in Flor. and Suet.):

habe ante oculos mortalitatem, a quā adserere te hoc uno munimento potes,

Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 4:

se ab injuriā oblivionis,

id. ib. 3, 5, 9:

liberatae Italiae adsertique imperii nuntius,

Flor. 3, 3, 19:

post adsertam a Manlio, restitutam a Camillo urbem,

id. 1, 13, 19:

Latini quoque Tarquinios adserebant,

id. 1, 11, 1:

Gracchanas leges,

id. 3, 16, 1:

easdem leges,

id. 3, 17, 1; so id. 2, 18, 16; 3, 3, 19; 3, 17, 4:

dignitatem,

Suet. Caes. 16 (cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 7, and Suet. Caes. 33:

defendere dignitatem,

id. ib. 72:

tueri dignitatem): senatus in adserendā libertate consensit,

in the restoring of freedom, Suet. Calig. 60; id. Claud. 10:

namque adserit urbes sola fames (liberas facit urbes contra dominos, Schol.),

Luc. 3, 56:

hoc focale tuas adserat auriculas,

i. e. guard against the hearing of bad verses, Mart. 14, 142:

non te cucullis adseret caput tectum (sc. a basiis),

id. 11, 99.—

(Acc. to I. B.) Aliquid sibi, to appropriate something to one's self, to claim, declare it one's own possession: nec laudes adsere nostras, claim not for yourself, etc., Ov. M. 1, 462:

haec (gaudia) utrāque manu complexuque adsere toto,

Mart. 1, 16, 9; and (per hypallagen): me adsere caelo, appoint me to the skies, i. e. declare me to be of celestial origin, Ov. M. 1, 761.—In prose, Vell. 2, 60 Runhk.; cf. Val. Max. 4, 4, 4:

Unus hominum ad hoc aevi Felicis sibi cognomen adseruit L. Sulla,

Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 137:

sapientis sibi nomen adseruit,

Quint. 12, 1, 20:

sibi artem figurarum,

id. 9, 3, 64:

ipse te in alto isto pinguique secessu studiis adseris?

are you devoting yourself? Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

dominationem sibi,

Suet. Oth. 9:

divinam majestatem sibi,

id. Calig. 22:

Gallaeci Graecam sibi originem adserunt,

Just. 44, 3.—

In gen., to maintain, affirm, assert, declare; diabebaioumai, Gloss.:

non haec Colchidos adserit furorem, Diri prandia nec refert Thyestae,

Mart. 10, 35:

Epicharmus testium malis hanc utilissime imponi adserit,

Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 89, where Jan conjectures ait:

mollissimum quemque beatum fore adserebant,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 28, 8; so id. ib. 3, 5:

non vacat adserere quae finxeris,

Quint. Decl. 7, 6; Pall. 1, 19, 3; so Veg. 1, 17, 4; 1, 17, 5; 5, 25, 1 al.

as-sĕro ( ads-, K. and H., Müller), sēvi, situm, 3, v. a., to sow, plant, or set near something (very rare;

not in Cic.), Agroet. de Orthogr. p. 2274 P.: vites,

Cato, R. R. 32 fin.:

vitis adsita ad olus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 16 fin.:

vites propter cupressos,

id. ib. 1, 26: Lenta quin velut adsitas Vitis implicat arbores, * Cat. 61, 102: populus adsita certis Limitibus, * Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 170 (quippe quae vitibus maritaretur, Agroet. l. c.).

as-sĕro ( ads-, Ritschl, Fleckeisen, Merk., Halm, Weissenb.), sĕrŭi, sertum, 3, v. a., to join some person or thing to one's self; hence,

As a jurid. t. t. (so this word is most freq. found; cf. assertor and assertio).

Aliquem manu, in libertatem or liberali causā (also merely manu, and finally absol. adserere), to declare one (a slave) to be free by laying hands upon him, to set free, to liberate:

adserere manu in libertatem...,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.:

qui in libertatem adserebant,

Suet. Vit. 10:

se adserit in libertatem,

Dig. 47, 10, 11 fin.:

in iis qui adserantur in libertatem, quia quivis lege agere possit, id juris esse,

Liv. 3, 45; so,

in ingenuitatem,

Suet. Aug. 74:

se ingenuitati,

Dig. 40, 14, 2:

manu eas adserat Suas populares liberali causā,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 83:

manuque liberali causā ambas adseras,

id. ib. 5, 2, 142: si quisquam hanc liberali adseruisset manu, id. Curc. 5, 2, 68:

ego liberali illam adsero causā manu,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40: cum in causā liberali eum, qui adserebatur cognatum, suum esse diceret, * Cic. Fl. 17, 40:

neminem venire, qui istas adsereret manu,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 11:

illam a lenone adserito manu,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 83;

and transf.: pisces manu adserere,

id. Rud. 4, 3, 34:

adserui jam me fugique catenas,

Ov. Am. 3, 11, 3 Merk.; Suet. Vesp. 3; id. Gram. 21.—

Aliquem in servitutem, to declare one to be a slave by laying the hand upon him, to claim as a slave:

M. Claudio clienti negotium dedit (Ap. Claudius), ut virginem in servitutem adsereret,

Liv. 3, 44; so Suet. Tib. 2; Liv. 34, 18; 35, 16 fin. —

After the poets of the Aug. per., transf. from the judicial sphere to common life.

(Acc. to I. A.) To free from, to protect, defend, defend against (esp. freq. in Flor. and Suet.):

habe ante oculos mortalitatem, a quā adserere te hoc uno munimento potes,

Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 4:

se ab injuriā oblivionis,

id. ib. 3, 5, 9:

liberatae Italiae adsertique imperii nuntius,

Flor. 3, 3, 19:

post adsertam a Manlio, restitutam a Camillo urbem,

id. 1, 13, 19:

Latini quoque Tarquinios adserebant,

id. 1, 11, 1:

Gracchanas leges,

id. 3, 16, 1:

easdem leges,

id. 3, 17, 1; so id. 2, 18, 16; 3, 3, 19; 3, 17, 4:

dignitatem,

Suet. Caes. 16 (cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 7, and Suet. Caes. 33:

defendere dignitatem,

id. ib. 72:

tueri dignitatem): senatus in adserendā libertate consensit,

in the restoring of freedom, Suet. Calig. 60; id. Claud. 10:

namque adserit urbes sola fames (liberas facit urbes contra dominos, Schol.),

Luc. 3, 56:

hoc focale tuas adserat auriculas,

i. e. guard against the hearing of bad verses, Mart. 14, 142:

non te cucullis adseret caput tectum (sc. a basiis),

id. 11, 99.—

(Acc. to I. B.) Aliquid sibi, to appropriate something to one's self, to claim, declare it one's own possession: nec laudes adsere nostras, claim not for yourself, etc., Ov. M. 1, 462:

haec (gaudia) utrāque manu complexuque adsere toto,

Mart. 1, 16, 9; and (per hypallagen): me adsere caelo, appoint me to the skies, i. e. declare me to be of celestial origin, Ov. M. 1, 761.—In prose, Vell. 2, 60 Runhk.; cf. Val. Max. 4, 4, 4:

Unus hominum ad hoc aevi Felicis sibi cognomen adseruit L. Sulla,

Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 137:

sapientis sibi nomen adseruit,

Quint. 12, 1, 20:

sibi artem figurarum,

id. 9, 3, 64:

ipse te in alto isto pinguique secessu studiis adseris?

are you devoting yourself? Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 3:

dominationem sibi,

Suet. Oth. 9:

divinam majestatem sibi,

id. Calig. 22:

Gallaeci Graecam sibi originem adserunt,

Just. 44, 3.—

In gen., to maintain, affirm, assert, declare; diabebaioumai, Gloss.:

non haec Colchidos adserit furorem, Diri prandia nec refert Thyestae,

Mart. 10, 35:

Epicharmus testium malis hanc utilissime imponi adserit,

Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 89, where Jan conjectures ait:

mollissimum quemque beatum fore adserebant,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 28, 8; so id. ib. 3, 5:

non vacat adserere quae finxeris,

Quint. Decl. 7, 6; Pall. 1, 19, 3; so Veg. 1, 17, 4; 1, 17, 5; 5, 25, 1 al.