a marriagecontract

păcisco, ĕre, 3, v. n. and a. [collat. form of dep. paciscor, q. v.], to agree, contract, bargain, covenant (class. only in perf. part. pass.): id quoque paciscunt, Naev. ap. Non. 474, 17:

paciscit, obsides ut reddant,

id. ib. 18.—Hence, pactus, a, um, in pass. signif., agreed upon, settled, determined, covenanted, stipulated (class.).

In gen.:

pactum pretium,

Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107:

pacta praemia,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 2:

dies,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 24:

merces,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 22:

foedus,

Cic. Sest. 14, 33:

cum hoste pactae induciae,

id. Off. 1, 10, 33.—In the abl. absol.:

quidam pacto inter se ut victorem res sequeretur, ferro decreverunt,

by agreement, Liv. 28, 21, 5; Sil. 14, 97.—

In partic., betrothed:

haec tibi pacta'st Callicli filia,

Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 59:

cujus filio pacta est Artavasdis filia,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 2:

alii pacta puella,

Tac. A. 1, 55:

Turnus, cui pacta Lavinia fuerat,

Liv. 1, 2:

conjux,

Verg. A. 10, 722.—Hence, as subst.

pacta, ae, f., a betrothed woman:

gremiis abducere pactas,

Verg. A. 10, 79:

pacta ejus, Menelai filia,

Vell. 1, 1, 3; Juv. 6, 200.—

pactus, i, m., a betrothed husband, a man engaged or promised in marriage:

proles Amissum didicere patrem, Marpissaque pactum,

Stat. Th. 3, 172.—

pactum, i, n., an agreement, covenant, contract, stipulation, compact, pact (cf.:

conventio, pactio, obligatio): pactum est, quod inter aliquos convenit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 68; cf. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20:

pacta et promissa semperne servanda sint,

Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92:

mansit in condicione atque pacto,

id. Verr. 1, 6, 16:

pacti et conventi formula,

id. Caecin. 18, 51; cf.:

ex pacto et convento,

id. Att. 6, 3, 1:

pacta conventaque,

Sen. Ben. 3, 15, 1:

stare pacto,

Liv. 9, 11:

pactum violans,

Vulg. Mal. 2, 10 et saep.—Hence (eccl. Lat.), the covenant of God:

dereliquerunt pactum Domini,

Vulg. Deut. 29, 25; id. 3 Reg. 11, 11; id. 2 Par. 6, 14.— Poet.:

sacrum,

i. e. a marriagecontract, Val. Fl. 8, 401; cf. Juv. 6, 25.—

Transf., in gen., abl. pacto (like ratione and modo), manner, way, means (class.):

percontat Aeneas, quo pacto Troiam urbem liquerit,

Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 1:

si non fecero ei male aliquo pacto,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 27; id. Am. prol. 137:

nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit,

how, Cic. Mur. 21, 43; id. Quint. 17:

non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi, etc.,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 46:

aliquo pacto verba his dabo,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 13:

quoquo pacto tacito est opus,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 44: si nullo alio pacto, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 71:

alio pacto docere,

Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30:

fieri nullo pacto potest, ut, etc.,

id. Fin. 1, 8, 27; Ter. And. 1, 5, 12:

servi mei si me isto pacto metuerent,

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 10; 1, 8, 13:

hoc pacto,

Verg. G. 2, 248.