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challenged me to a game

  • 1 provoco

    prō-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., to call forth, call out.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen. (very rare):

    aliquem,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 43:

    ut ubi illaec prodeat, me provoces,

    id. Mil. 4, 3, 28; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 40:

    mandant, ut ad se provocet Simonidem,

    Phaedr. 4, 23, 25:

    dum rota Luciferi provocet orta diem,

    lead up, call forth, Tib. 1, 9, 62:

    Memnonis mater roseo provocet ore diem,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 58; cf. id. F. 1, 456:

    provocare et elicere novas radiculas,

    Col. 3, 15, 5.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To call out, challenge, invite one to any thing (as to play, sing, drink, fight, etc.):

    provocat me in aleam,

    challenged me to a game, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 75:

    pedibus,

    to a race, id. Ep. 5, 1, 58:

    aliquem tesseris,

    Macr. S. 1, 10:

    aliquem cantatum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:

    aliquem ad pugnam,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 49; cf. Liv. 8, 7, and Flor. 2, 17, 11 Duker: duces nec prohibere paucos temere provocantis volebant, nec, etc., Liv. 23, 16, 4:

    et oleo et mero viros provocant,

    Sen. Ep. 95, 21:

    aliquem ad bibendum,

    Vop. Firm. 4.—
    2.
    In jurid. lang., to take a cause before a higher court, to appeal, make an appeal; in this signif. usually neutr., ad aliquem; act. only post-class., with the judge to whom the appeal is made as object (cf. appello).
    (α).
    Neutr.:

    ut de majestate damnati ad populum provocent,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 9, 21; cf.: quam id rectum sit, tu judicabis;

    ne ad Catonem quidem provocabo,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 7:

    provoco ad populum,

    Liv. 8, 33:

    arreptus a viatore, Provoco, inquit,

    I appeal, id. 3, 56:

    si a duumviris provocarit, provocatione certato,

    id. 1, 26, 6; 3, 56:

    ab omni judicio poenāque provocari licere,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 54.—
    (β).
    Act., to appeal to a judge (post-class.):

    si judicem provocent,

    Dig. 8, 28, 6:

    si praefectus urbi judicem dederit, ipse erit provocandus, qui eum judicem dederit,

    ib. 49, 3, 1.—Also:

    provocare judicium ad populum,

    to bring the decision before the people by appeal, Val. Max. 8, 1, 1;

    rarely, aliquem ad judicem,

    to cite, summon before, App. Flor. p. 360, 24.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To challenge to a contest, to contend with, emulate, rival, vie with (post-Aug.):

    aliquem virtute,

    to vie with him in virtue, Plin. Ep. 2, 7, 4:

    elegia Graecos provocamus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 93; cf.:

    ea pictura naturam ipsam provocavit,

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 94.—Of things, Plin. 16, 8, 12, § 32:

    immensum latus Circi templorum pulchritudinem provocat,

    id. Pan. 51, 3.—
    B.
    To challenge, incite, provoke to any thing:

    felicitas temporum, quae bonam conscientiam civium tuorum ad usum indulgentiae tuae provocat,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7) fin.:

    omni comitate ad hilaritatem et jocum provocare,

    Suet. Calig. 27; id. Claud. 21:

    tacentes ad communionem sermonis,

    id. Aug. 74.—
    C.
    To excite, stimulate, exasperate, stir up, rouse with any thing (class.;

    syn.: irrito, lacesso): qui non solum a me provocatus sed etiam suā sponte solet, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 3:

    aliquem beneficio,

    id. Off. 1, 15, 48:

    sermonibus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 74:

    minis et verbis,

    Tac. H. 3, 24:

    bello,

    id. ib. 4, 17:

    injuriā,

    id. A. 14, 49 et saep.:

    ad iracundiam,

    Vulg. Isa. 63, 10; id. Deut. 4, 25. —
    D.
    To call forth, occasion, produce, cause:

    officia comitate,

    Tac. H. 5, 1:

    mortem tot modis,

    Plin. 19, praef. 1, §

    5: bellum,

    Tac. G. 35; Plin. Pan. 16.—
    E.
    (Acc. to I. B. 2.) To appeal to any thing, to cite as authority or proof (late Lat.):

    ad litteras Pudentillae,

    App. Mag. 84, p. 326, 40:

    ad Judaeorum Codices provocare,

    Aug. Serm. 202, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > provoco

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