abnueo

ab-nueo, ēre, altlat. = abnuo (s. Diom. 382, 11), m. Infinit., certare, Enn. ann. 283: ex eo futurum abnuebunt, Enn. tr. 371 (284).

ab-nŭo, ŭi, ŭĭtum (hence abnŭĭturus, Sall. Fragm. 1, 37 Kritz), or ūtum, 3, v. a. and n. (abnueo, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 378 P. or Ann. v. 283 Vahl.:

abnuebunt,

id. ib. or Trag. v. 371 id.), lit., to refuse by a nod (cf. Nigid. ap. Gell. 10, 4 fin.); hence, to deny, refuse, to decline doing a thing, to reject.

Lit.

In gen. (syn. recuso; opp. concedo), constr. absol., with the acc., the inf., quin, or de.

Absol.:

non recuso, non abnuo,

Cic. Mil. 36, 100; so Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 21; id. Truc. prol. 6; Hor. S. 2, 5, 52; Tac. A. 11, 12; id. Agr. 4 al.—

With acc. (in Cic. only with general objects, as quid, nihil):

cum intellegas, quid quisque concedat, quid abnuat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3:

nihil umquam abnuit meo studio voluntas tua,

refused, id. Fat. 2, 3; so,

aliquid alicui: regi pacem neque abnuere neque pollicere,

Sall. J. 47 fin.:

alia (opp. probo),

id. ib. 83 fin.:

abnuere cognomen Bruti,

Liv. 1, 56, 8:

imperium,

id. 3, 66, 3; cf.:

imperium auspiciumque,

to reject, id. 28, 27, 4:

regulae rationem,

Quint. 1, 6, 33:

omen,

Verg. A. 5, 531:

aliquem comitem inceptis,

Sil. 3, 110. —

With inf.:

certare abnueo, Enn. l. l.: nec abnuebant melioribus parere,

Liv. 22, 13 fin.; so id. 22, 37, 4.—With acc. and inf.:

aeternam sibi naturam abnuit esse,

Lucr. 3, 641; cf.:

abnueret a se commissum esse facinus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 14, 40; and:

haud equidem abnuo egregium ducem fuisse Alexandrum,

Liv. 9, 17, 5; so id. 5, 33, 4; 30, 20, 6; Quint. 5, 8, 3; 6, 2, 11 (opp. concedo); Verg. A. 10, 8 al.; cf.

also: manu abnuit quidquam opis in se esse,

Liv. 36, 34, 6.— Impers.:

nec abnuitur ita fuisse,

Liv. 3, 72, 6. —

With quin:

non abnuere se quin cuncta mala patefierent,

Tac. A. 13, 14.—

With de:

neque illi senatus de ullo negotio abnuere audebat,

Sall. J. 84, 3.

Esp., abnuens, like the Gr. apeipôn, declining service, giving up (very rare):

milites fessos itineris magnitudine et jam abnuentes omnia,

Sall. J. 68, 3; cf.:

fessos abnuentesque taedio et labore,

declining the combat, Liv. 27, 49, 3.

Transf., of abstract subjects, not to admit of, to be unfavorable ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

quod spes abnuit,

Tib. 4, 1, 25:

quando impetus et subita belli locus abnueret,

Tac. H. 5, 13:

hoc videretur, nisi abnueret duritia,

Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 145.