com-pacīscor

com-păciscor ( conp-) or - pĕcis-cor, pactus or pectus, 3, v. dep., to make an agreement, form a compact with one (only in temp. perf. and partic., and rare):

si sumus compecti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 129: mecum matrimonio compecta sit, id. Cist. Fragm. Mai, p. 17, v. 11.—Hence,

P. a. as subst.: compactum ( conp-) or compectum ( conp-), i, n., an agreement, only in abl. sing.:

compacto (compecto,

Cic. Scaur. 5, 8 B. and K.), according to agreement or concert, in accordance with a previous compact, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 177 P.; Cic. Scaur. l. l.; id. Att. 10, 12, 2 Orell. N. cr.:

conpecto,

Liv. 5, 11, 7.—In a similar sense:

de conpecto,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 24; 3, 1, 29; id. Ps. 1, 5, 126; and:

ex compacto,

Suet. Caes. 20; Cod. Just. 7, 53, 3.

com-păciscor ( conp-) or - pĕcis-cor, pactus or pectus, 3, v. dep., to make an agreement, form a compact with one (only in temp. perf. and partic., and rare):

si sumus compecti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 129: mecum matrimonio compecta sit, id. Cist. Fragm. Mai, p. 17, v. 11.—Hence,

P. a. as subst.: compactum ( conp-) or compectum ( conp-), i, n., an agreement, only in abl. sing.:

compacto (compecto,

Cic. Scaur. 5, 8 B. and K.), according to agreement or concert, in accordance with a previous compact, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 177 P.; Cic. Scaur. l. l.; id. Att. 10, 12, 2 Orell. N. cr.:

conpecto,

Liv. 5, 11, 7.—In a similar sense:

de conpecto,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 24; 3, 1, 29; id. Ps. 1, 5, 126; and:

ex compacto,

Suet. Caes. 20; Cod. Just. 7, 53, 3.

com-păciscor ( conp-) or - pĕcis-cor, pactus or pectus, 3, v. dep., to make an agreement, form a compact with one (only in temp. perf. and partic., and rare):

si sumus compecti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 129: mecum matrimonio compecta sit, id. Cist. Fragm. Mai, p. 17, v. 11.—Hence,

P. a. as subst.: compactum ( conp-) or compectum ( conp-), i, n., an agreement, only in abl. sing.:

compacto (compecto,

Cic. Scaur. 5, 8 B. and K.), according to agreement or concert, in accordance with a previous compact, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 177 P.; Cic. Scaur. l. l.; id. Att. 10, 12, 2 Orell. N. cr.:

conpecto,

Liv. 5, 11, 7.—In a similar sense:

de conpecto,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 24; 3, 1, 29; id. Ps. 1, 5, 126; and:

ex compacto,

Suet. Caes. 20; Cod. Just. 7, 53, 3.

com-păciscor ( conp-) or - pĕcis-cor, pactus or pectus, 3, v. dep., to make an agreement, form a compact with one (only in temp. perf. and partic., and rare):

si sumus compecti,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 129: mecum matrimonio compecta sit, id. Cist. Fragm. Mai, p. 17, v. 11.—Hence,

P. a. as subst.: compactum ( conp-) or compectum ( conp-), i, n., an agreement, only in abl. sing.:

compacto (compecto,

Cic. Scaur. 5, 8 B. and K.), according to agreement or concert, in accordance with a previous compact, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 177 P.; Cic. Scaur. l. l.; id. Att. 10, 12, 2 Orell. N. cr.:

conpecto,

Liv. 5, 11, 7.—In a similar sense:

de conpecto,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 24; 3, 1, 29; id. Ps. 1, 5, 126; and:

ex compacto,

Suet. Caes. 20; Cod. Just. 7, 53, 3.

dē-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall off, fall down (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

decido de lecto praeceps,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 48; so,

anguis decidit de tegulis,

Ter. Ph. 4, 4, 26:

poma ex arboribus decidunt,

Cic. de Sen. 19 fin.; cf.:

e flore guttae,

Ov. M. 9, 345:

equo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48, 6;

for which ex equo (in terram),

Nep. Eum. 4;

and ab equo (in arva),

Ov. Ib. 259:

summo toro,

id. F. 2, 350:

arbore glandes,

id. M. 1, 106:

caelo,

Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 164; so,

caelo,

id. 2, 52, 53, § 138:

in terras imber,

Lucr. 6, 497; so,

imber,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 29:

celsae turres graviore casu,

id. Od. 2, 10, 11:

comae,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3 et saep.:

montium decidentium moles,

Plin. Ep. 8, 17, 3:

(volucris) decidit in terram,

Ov. M. 12, 569;

so in terras sidus,

id. ib. 14, 847:

in puteum foveamve auceps,

Hor. A. P. 458:

in lacum fulmen,

Suet. Galb. 8:

in dolia serpens,

Juv. 6, 432:

in casses praeda,

Ov. A. A. 2, 2:

in laqueos suos auceps,

id. Rem. Am. 502:

in turbam praedonum hic fugiens,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

in praeceps,

Ov. M. 12, 339:

ad pedes tunica,

Suet. Aug. 94. —

Pregn. (like cado and concido), to fall down dead, to sink down, to die (in class. Lat. only poet.):

morbo decidunt,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 143:

nos ubi decidimus, Quo pater Aeneas,

Hor. Od. 4, 7, 14:

scriptor abhinc annos centum qui decidit,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 36:

decidit exanimis vitamque reliquit in astris,

Verg. A. 5, 517; cf. Stat. Th. 8, 125; and id. ib. 9, 755: (nupta) Decidit;

in talum serpentis dente recepto,

Ov. M. 10, 10.

Trop., to fall, drop, fall away, fail, sink:

quanta de spe decidi!

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 9;

for which quanta spe decidi!

id. ib. 4, 8, 11; Suet. Oth. 5;

and a spe societatis Prusiae,

Liv. 37, 26:

ex astris,

Cic. Att. 2, 21, 4 (cf.: astrum, no. II. B. fin.):

ego ab archetypo labor et decido,

Plin. Ep. 5, 10, 1:

eo decidit ut exsul de senatore fieret,

has fallen so low, id. ib. 4, 11, 1: oculis captus in hanc fraudem decidisti (cf. katapiptein), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101:

ad eas rei familiaris angustias decidit, ut, etc.,

Suet. Claud. 9 fin.; cf.:

huc decidisse cuncta, ut, etc.,

Tac. A. 3, 59:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

perish, Cic. Off. 2, 12 fin.:

non virtute hostium sed amicorum perfidia decidi,

am fallen, defeated, Nep. Eum. 11 fin.:

an toto pectore deciderim,

wholly banished from her affections, Tib. 3, 1, 20 (cf. ek thumou peseein, Hom. Il. 23, 595):

qui huc deciderunt,

into this illness, Cels. 3, 21 fin.:

in hydropa,

id. ib. med.: in maximis necessitatibus, ad quas libidine deciderat, Schol. Juv. 5, 3.

dē-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut off.

Lit. (rare in ante-Aug. per.; more freq. abscīdo;

not in Caes.): taleas oleaginas tripedaneas,

Cato R. R. 45:

collum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 37:

aures,

Tac. A. 12, 14:

virgam arbori,

id. G. 10:

caput,

Curt. 7, 2;

prov.: pennas,

to clip the wings, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 50:

malleolum,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 162:

filicem nascentem falce,

Col. 2, 2, 13; Sil. 4, 389 et saep.—

Transf., to cudgel, beat soundly:

aliquem verberibus decidere,

Dig. 47, 21, 2.

Trop., to decide a disputed, or, indeed, any matter (qs. to cut the knot; cf.:

dirimo and secare lites, res,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 42; id. Sat. 1, 10, 15); to determine, settle, terminate, put an end to (class., most freq. in judic. lang.; cf.: transigo, paciscor).

With acc.: damnum, XII. Tab. 12, 4; Gai. Inst. 4, 37; 4, 45:

quibus rebus actis atque decisis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45 fin.; cf.:

decisa negotia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 59:

res transactione decisa,

Dig. 5, 2, 29;

and jam decisa quaestio,

ib. 18, 3, 4:

decidis statuisque tu, quid iis ad denarium solveretur,

Cic. Quint. 4, 17; id. Rosc. Com. 11, 32; Dig. 47, 2, 63; cf. ib. 9, 4, 22, § 4:

hoc loco praeter nomen cetera propriis decisa sunt verbis,

i. e. decidedly, clearly expressed, Quint. 8, 6, 47: ego pol istam jam aliquovorsum tragulam decidero, I will now dispose of this dart one way or another, i. e. I will now put an end to this attack, these tricks, Plaut. Casin. 2, 4, 18.—

With praepp.:

cum aliquo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § [p. 520] 79; 2, 1, 48, § 125; id. Rosc. Am. 39, 114; Plin. 7, 40, 41, § 130:

non erit uncia tota, decidat tecum qua pater ipse deum,

for which Jupiter may compound with you, Mart. 9, 4, 6; cf.:

cum patrono pecuniā,

Dig. 12, 6, 26, § 12:

de rebus,

Cic. Quint. 5, 19; id. Rosc. Com. 12, 35 sq.; id. Att. 1, 8; Just. 31, 7: decidere jactu coepit cum ventis, to compound with the winds by throwing overboard (the cargo), Juv. 12, 33.—

Absol.:

in jugera singula ternis medimnis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48; id. Rosc. Com. 36; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. 56, 4.—

To cut down, reduce, diminish:

ad tertiam partem vectigal,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38.

pactĭo, ōnis, f. [paciscor].

In gen., an agreeing, covenanting; an agreement, covenant, contract, bargain, pact (syn. pactum):

est autem pactio duorum plurinmve in idem placitum et consensum,

Dig. 2, 14, 1:

in pactionibus faciendis legem spectare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 12:

pactionem facere de aliquā re,

id. Rosc. Com. 12, 34, and 14, 40:

nefarias cum multis pactiones conflare,

id. Har. Resp. 20, 42:

pactionem cum aliquo facere, ut, etc.,

id. Att. 4, 18, 2:

condiciones pactionesque bellicas perturbare perjurio,

id. Off. 3, 29, 108; id. Caecin. 18, 51:

arma per pactionem tradere,

Liv. 9, 11:

summā fide in pactione manere,

Nep. Ag. 2, 4:

talibus pactionibus pacem facere,

conditions, id. Dion. 5:

interpositā pactione,

Just. 7, 6, 4; 22, 2, 3:

pactionem de republicā facere,

id. 35, 1, 4:

collegam suum Antonium pactione provinciae perpulerat, ne, etc.,

by making over to him his province according to agreement, Sall. C. 26, 4:

pactionem nuptialem facere,

Liv. 4, 4:

praemiorum,

a promise, Cic. post Red. in Sen. 13, 31.—

In partic.

An agreement, compact, between the farmers general and the inhabitants of a province:

pactiones cum aliquo conficere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 65, 1; id. Att. 5, 13, 1.—

A corrupt bargaining, an underhand agreement or compact:

nonnullos pactionis suspicionem non vitasse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 17:

Aulum spe pactionis perpulit, uti, etc.,

Sall. J. 38, 2; cf. id. C. 26, 4.—

A truce:

aut pax aut pactio,

Flor. 4, 12, 24.—

Pactio verborum, a form of words:

ex pactione verborum, quibus jusjurandum comprehenditur,

on account of the form of oath, Cic. Rosc. Com. 16, 46; cf.:

deos cum pactionibus adorare et formulis,

Arn. 7 med. —

A marriage-contract:

hic eam rem volt, scio, mecum adire ad pactionem (= mecum pacisci),

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 25.