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fētus ( foet-), a, um, adj. [Part., from ‡ FEO, whence also: fecundus, femina, fenus, felix], that is or was filled with young (syn.: gravidus, praegnans).

Pregnant, breeding (mostly poet.).

Lit.:

lenta salix feto pecori,

Verg. E. 3, 83; 1, 50:

vulpes,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 5.—

Transf.

Of land, fruitful, productive:

(terra) feta parit nitidas fruges, etc.,

Lucr. 2, 994; cf.: terra feta frugibus et vario leguminum genere, * Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156:

loca palustribus ulvis,

Ov. M. 14, 103:

regio nec pomo nec uvis,

id. P. 1, 7, 13; id. F. 1, 662.—Also of plants:

palmites,

Col. 3, 21, 3.—

In gen., filled with any thing, full:

machina armis,

Verg. A. 2, 238:

loca furentibus austris,

id. ib. 1, 51:

colla serpentis veneno,

Sil. 17, 448.—

Trop., full of. —With abl.:

feta furore Megaera,

Sil. 13, 592:

praecordia bello,

id. 17, 380:

praecordia irā,

id. 11, 203. —With gen.:

fetas novales Martis,

Claud. Bell. Get. 25;

and in a Gr. construction: fetus Gradivo mentem,

id. 10, 14.—

That has brought forth, newly delivered: veniebant fetam amicae gratulatum, Varr. ap. Non. 312, 12:

agiles et fetae (opp. tardiores et gravidae),

Col. 7, 3 fin.:

ursa,

Ov. M. 13, 803:

lupa,

Verg. A. 8, 630:

ovis,

id. E. 1, 50; Ov. F. 2, 413:

qua feta jacebat uxor et infantes ludebant,

Juv. 14, 167.— Absol.:

insueta gravis temptabunt pabula fetas,

Verg. E. 1, 49.

fētus ( foet-), ūs ( heteroclit. abl. plur.: fetis, Att. ap. Non. 489, 6, v. in the foll.), m. [‡ feo, v. the preced. art.]..

Abstr., a bringing forth, bearing, dropping, hatching of young (rare but class.):

pater (Juppiter) curavit, uno ut fetu fieret,

at one birth, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 25:

quarum (bestiarum) in fetu et in educatione laborem cum cernimus,

Cic. Fin. 3, 19, 63:

cornix inauspicatissima fetus tempore,

Plin. 10, 12, 14, § 30:

secundi fetus pecudes signari oportet,

Col. 11, 2, 38.—

Transf., of plants, a bearing, producing:

quae frugibus atque bacis terrae fetu profunduntur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 8, 25:

periti rerum adseverant, non ferre (Arabiam) tantum annuo fetu (casiae), quantum, etc.,

Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 83. —

Concr., young, offspring, progeny, brood (the predom. signif. of the word, in sing. and plur.; esp. freq. in poets; cf.:

catulus, pullus, hinnus, hinnuleus): quae (bestiae) multiplices fetus procreant, ut sues, ut canes, his mammarum data est multitudo,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

facile illa (piscium ova) aqua et sustinentur et fetum fundunt,

id. ib.:

fetus ventri exsecti,

Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 217:

cervae lactens fetus,

a fawn, Ov. M. 6, 637:

melliferarum apium,

id. ib. 15, 382:

ex die emptionis, et fetus pecorum et ancillarum partus ad emptorem pertinent,

Paul. Sent. 2, 17, 7:

quis (paveat), Germania quos horrida parturit Fetus?

the German brood, Hor. C. 4, 5, 27.—So very rarely of human beings:

si vitium factum esset, ut (mulier) concipere fetus non posset,

Gell. 4, 2, 10.—

Transf., of plants, fruit, produce:

ager novatus et iteratus, quo meliores fetus possit et grandiores edere,

Cic. de Or. 2, 30, 131; cf.:

nutriant fetus et aquae salubres Et Jovis aurae,

Hor. Carm. Sec. 31:

(arbores) crescunt ipsae fetuque gravantur,

Lucr. 1, 253; cf. id. 1, 351: Cithaeron frondet viridantibus fetis, Att. ap. Non. 489, 6:

arborei,

Verg. G. 1, 55:

mutatis requiescunt fetibus arva,

id. ib. 1, 82;

4, 231: silvae dant alios aliae fetus,

id. ib. 2, 442:

triticei,

Ov. F. 1, 693: gravidi ( of grapes), id. M. 8, 294:

nucis, i. e. surculus, auricomi,

the golden-bough, id. Am. 6, 141; Verg. G. 2, 69:

omnis fetus repressus exustusque flos,

Cic. Brut. 4, 16.—Of veins of metals:

atros fetus chalybis,

Sil. 1, 230.—

Trop.:

nec ulla aetate uberior oratorum fetus fuit,

progeny, growth, Cic. Brut. 49, 182:

animi,

production, id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

dulces Musarum expromere fetus,

Cat. 65, 3.

manceps, ĭpis, m. [manus-capio], a purchaser of any thing at a public auction, a renter, farmer, contractor, etc. (syn.: redemtor, exactor).

Lit.: manceps dicitur, qui quid a populo emit conducitve, quia manu sublata significat se auctorem emptionis esse: qui idem praes dicitur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 151 Müll.:

postremo ne in praedae quidem societate mancipem aut praedem... reperire potuisti,

Cic. Dom. 18, 48:

si res abiret ab eo mancipe, quem ipse apposuisset,

contractor for building, id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 141:

hominis studiosissimi nobilitatis manceps fit Chrysogonus,

the purchaser, id. Rosc. Am. 8, 21:

mancipes a civitatibus pro frumento pecuniam exegerunt,

the contractors with the government, farmers, id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 33; id. Dom. 10, 25:

nullius rei neque praes neque manceps,

Nep. Att. 6, 3:

aliquis praevalens annonam flagellet,

i. e. a forestaller, speculator, Plin. 33, 13, 57, § 164:

sutrinae,

a keeper of a stall, id. 10, 43, 60, § 122; Plin. Ep. 3, 19:

operarum,

one who hires laborers to let them out again, Suet. Vesp. 1;

itinera fraude mancipum et incuria magistratuum interrupta,

a farmer of the revenue, farmer-general, Tac. A. 3, 31:

VIAE APPIAE,

Inscr. Orell. 3221.—

Transf.

A surety, bondsman, bail, = praes:

ego mancipem te nihil moror,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 29.—

One who hires people to applaud:

conducti et redempti mancipes,

Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 4.—

The owner, proprietor, or possessor of a thing:

deus et manceps divinitatis,

Tert. Apol. 11.—

A master, chief: carceris, i. e. jailer, Prud. steph. 5, 345; Tert. de Spect. 10.

rēscissĭo, ōnis, f. [rescindo, II.), a making void, annulling, rescinding, rescission (in jurid. and eccl. Lat.).

Lit.:

prioris decreti,

Dig. 50, 9, 5:

emptionis,

ib. 43, 24, 11 fin.:

emancipationis,

ib. 37, 4, 3.—

Trop.:

mortis,

Tert. Res. Carn. 57, 5; cf. id. adv. Marc. 2, 7.

rē-spĭcĭo, spexi, spectum, 3 (old form of subj. perf. respexis, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 19; id. Most. 2, 2, 90; id. Rud. 3, 3, 16), v. n. and a., to look back or behind, to look about, look; to see behind one; to look back upon, to look at, look to or for any thing (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

Neutr.:

respicere quasi retro aspicere, Varro Manio: sedens... neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens,

Non. p. 442, 31 sq. (cf. infra, b):

longe retro respicere non possunt,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 2, 6; Liv. 21, 22, 7; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

subito exaudivit hinnitum respexitque et equum alacrem laetus aspexit,

id. ib. 1, 33 fin.: Er. Ergasilum qui vocat? He. Respice... respice ad me, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 54 sq.:

huc ad aliquem,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 61; so,

ad aliquem,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 20; id. Cas. 3, 5, 10; id. Ps. 1, 3, 16; id. Poen. 4, 2, 35; id. Truc. 2, 2, 2; Ter. And. 2, 5, 6; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

nocte ad oppidum,

Cic. Div. 1, 32, 69:

patriae ad oras,

Ov. M. 11, 547:

ad libellos,

Quint. 10, 7, 31; 11, 2, 45; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 51:

ad laevam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 8:

in aliquem,

App. M. 2, p. 118:

huc,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 30; id. Rud. 3, 4, 2; id. Truc. 1, 2, 20; 21:

tanta militum virtus fuit, ut non modo de vallo decederet nemo, sed paene ne respiceret quidem quisquam,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

transque caput jace, nec respexeris,

Verg. E. 8, 102:

respicit Aeneas subito,

id. A. 6, 548:

a tergo,

id. ib. 8, 697:

quod respicere vetitus est,

Liv. 21, 22.—

Act. (in lit. sense rare in good prose, but freq. in all styles in the trop. signif.; v. infra, II.):

ipsi Respiciunt atram in nimbo volitare favillam,

look back on, see behind them, Verg. A. 5, 666:

modo Prospicit occasus, interdum respicit ortus,

Ov. M. 2, 190:

respice me et relinque egentem parasitum,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 7:

repudia istos comites atque hoc respice et revortere,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 30:

proxima respiciens signa,

Caes. B. C. 2, 39; cf.

Caesarem,

id. ib. 3, 91:

(Hannibalem) respexisse saepe Italiae litora,

Liv. 30, 20, 7:

nec prius amissam (Creüsam) respexi animumve reflexi, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 2. 741; id. G. 4, 491; Ov. M. 11, 66; cf.:

ut stetit et frustra absentem respexit amicum,

Verg. A. 9, 389:

instantem tergo Cloanthum,

id. ib. 5, 168:

donec versas ad litora puppes Respiciunt,

id. ib. 10, 269; cf. id. ib. 5, 666:

oculis pignora cara,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 60: medio cum Sol altissimus orbe Tantum respiceret, quantum superesse videret, looked back upon, i. e. had already passed over, id. M. 11, 354. —

Trop.

In gen., to look, have regard, turn attention.

Neutr.:

neque se in multa simul intendere animus totum potest: et, quocumque respexit, desinit intueri, quod propositum erat,

at whatsoever it looks, Quint. 10, 3, 23:

si propter singula verba ad singulas formas respiciendum erit,

id. 11, 2, 26; cf.:

non respiciendum ad haec,

id. 7, 10, 14:

M. Bibulus cuncta administrabat: ad hunc summa imperii respiciebat,

looked to him, was centred in him, Caes. B. C. 3, 5 fin.; cf.:

periculum (emptionis) ad venditorem respicere,

Dig. 18, 6, 4 (with ad venditorem pertinere). —

Act., to look at, regard, look to:

quom respicias immensi temporis omne Praeteritum spatium,

Lucr. 3, 854; cf.:

quoad longissime potest mens mea respicere spatium praeteriti temporis,

Cic. Arch. 1, 1: cum vastitatem Italiae respexerint, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1: subsidia, quae respicerent in re trepidā, etc., which they might look to, i. e. from which they might expect aid, Liv. 4, 46; cf.:

ne respicere spem ullam ab Romanis posset,

id. 4, 17:

respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem,

to look at, have in his eye, Hor. A. P. 317:

de te pendentis, te respicientis amici,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 105. — With rel.-clause:

quid sit prius actum, respicere aetas Nostra nequit, nisi, etc.,

Lucr. 5, 1446; cf. id. 3, 972:

respiciens, an vera soror,

Val. Fl. 6, 661.—

Pregn., to look at with solicitude, i. e. to have a care for, regard, be mindful of, consider, respect, etc. (in this sense mostly act.; cf. provideo).

Of a protecting deity:

di homines respiciunt,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 29:

deus respiciet nos aliquis,

id. Bacch. 4, 2, 39; Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 34; id. Hec. 5, 2, 6:

nisi quis nos deus respexerit,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 6: [p. 1581] Sive neglectum genus et nepotes Respicis auctor, Hor. C. 1, 2, 36; Verg. E. 1, 28:

nisi idem deus, qui, etc., respexerit rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2:

et me et te, nisi quid dī respiciunt, perdidi,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 19.— Hence, Rēspĭcĭens, the Provident, an epithet of Fortuna:

ad opem ferendam,

Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28; Inscr. Orell. 477; 1766.—

Rarely, in a bad sense, of an avenging deity: at vos, devota capita, respiciant di perjuriorum vindices,

may they remember it against you, Just. 14, 4, 10.—

Of persons that have a care or regard for any thing:

hercle alius nemo respicit nos,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 55; so,

aliquem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 19; id. Aul. 2, 2, 54:

age, me in tuis secundis respice,

Ter. And. 5, 6, 11; id. Ad. 5, 8, 9:

miseros aratores,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 10, § 26; Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

sin Caesarem respiciant,

id. B. C. 1, 1; Mart. 10, 10, 5:

non Pylium Nestora respicis,

Hor. C. 1, 15, 22:

quantum quisque ferat respiciendus erit,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 38: mox deos respexere;

restitui Capitolium placuit,

bethought themselves of, Tac. H. 4, 4:

aetatem tuam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 87:

populi Romani commoda (with prospicere),

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 55, § 127:

salutem cum meam tum aliorum,

id. Planc 38, 91; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 5:

rem publicam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 46, 118; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 3:

mala sua,

Lucr. 4, 1159 et saep. —With se, to think of or have regard for one ' s self, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 18; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 18; 5, 1, 46; Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79; id. pro Scaur. Fragm. 41, p. 267 Orell.: quod si Caesar se respexerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 8.—With ad (Quintilian):

ad utilitatem Ligarii respicit,

looks to the advantage of, Quint. 9, 2, 28; so,

modice ad hanc partem,

id. 9, 4, 36:

Graecas litteras (corresp. to studere Latinis),

id. 1, 12, 6:

saepius ad curam rerum ab elocutione,

id. 10, 1, 120.—With an abstr. subj.:

si quid pietas antiqua labores Respicit humanos,

Verg. A. 5, 689.— With object-clause, to observe, perceive, notice:

respicio nihili meam vos gratiam facere,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 68.

rē-spĭcĭo, spexi, spectum, 3 (old form of subj. perf. respexis, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 19; id. Most. 2, 2, 90; id. Rud. 3, 3, 16), v. n. and a., to look back or behind, to look about, look; to see behind one; to look back upon, to look at, look to or for any thing (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

Neutr.:

respicere quasi retro aspicere, Varro Manio: sedens... neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens,

Non. p. 442, 31 sq. (cf. infra, b):

longe retro respicere non possunt,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 2, 6; Liv. 21, 22, 7; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

subito exaudivit hinnitum respexitque et equum alacrem laetus aspexit,

id. ib. 1, 33 fin.: Er. Ergasilum qui vocat? He. Respice... respice ad me, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 54 sq.:

huc ad aliquem,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 61; so,

ad aliquem,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 20; id. Cas. 3, 5, 10; id. Ps. 1, 3, 16; id. Poen. 4, 2, 35; id. Truc. 2, 2, 2; Ter. And. 2, 5, 6; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

nocte ad oppidum,

Cic. Div. 1, 32, 69:

patriae ad oras,

Ov. M. 11, 547:

ad libellos,

Quint. 10, 7, 31; 11, 2, 45; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 51:

ad laevam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 8:

in aliquem,

App. M. 2, p. 118:

huc,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 30; id. Rud. 3, 4, 2; id. Truc. 1, 2, 20; 21:

tanta militum virtus fuit, ut non modo de vallo decederet nemo, sed paene ne respiceret quidem quisquam,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

transque caput jace, nec respexeris,

Verg. E. 8, 102:

respicit Aeneas subito,

id. A. 6, 548:

a tergo,

id. ib. 8, 697:

quod respicere vetitus est,

Liv. 21, 22.—

Act. (in lit. sense rare in good prose, but freq. in all styles in the trop. signif.; v. infra, II.):

ipsi Respiciunt atram in nimbo volitare favillam,

look back on, see behind them, Verg. A. 5, 666:

modo Prospicit occasus, interdum respicit ortus,

Ov. M. 2, 190:

respice me et relinque egentem parasitum,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 7:

repudia istos comites atque hoc respice et revortere,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 30:

proxima respiciens signa,

Caes. B. C. 2, 39; cf.

Caesarem,

id. ib. 3, 91:

(Hannibalem) respexisse saepe Italiae litora,

Liv. 30, 20, 7:

nec prius amissam (Creüsam) respexi animumve reflexi, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 2. 741; id. G. 4, 491; Ov. M. 11, 66; cf.:

ut stetit et frustra absentem respexit amicum,

Verg. A. 9, 389:

instantem tergo Cloanthum,

id. ib. 5, 168:

donec versas ad litora puppes Respiciunt,

id. ib. 10, 269; cf. id. ib. 5, 666:

oculis pignora cara,

Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 60: medio cum Sol altissimus orbe Tantum respiceret, quantum superesse videret, looked back upon, i. e. had already passed over, id. M. 11, 354. —

Trop.

In gen., to look, have regard, turn attention.

Neutr.:

neque se in multa simul intendere animus totum potest: et, quocumque respexit, desinit intueri, quod propositum erat,

at whatsoever it looks, Quint. 10, 3, 23:

si propter singula verba ad singulas formas respiciendum erit,

id. 11, 2, 26; cf.:

non respiciendum ad haec,

id. 7, 10, 14:

M. Bibulus cuncta administrabat: ad hunc summa imperii respiciebat,

looked to him, was centred in him, Caes. B. C. 3, 5 fin.; cf.:

periculum (emptionis) ad venditorem respicere,

Dig. 18, 6, 4 (with ad venditorem pertinere). —

Act., to look at, regard, look to:

quom respicias immensi temporis omne Praeteritum spatium,

Lucr. 3, 854; cf.:

quoad longissime potest mens mea respicere spatium praeteriti temporis,

Cic. Arch. 1, 1: cum vastitatem Italiae respexerint, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1: subsidia, quae respicerent in re trepidā, etc., which they might look to, i. e. from which they might expect aid, Liv. 4, 46; cf.:

ne respicere spem ullam ab Romanis posset,

id. 4, 17:

respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem,

to look at, have in his eye, Hor. A. P. 317:

de te pendentis, te respicientis amici,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 105. — With rel.-clause:

quid sit prius actum, respicere aetas Nostra nequit, nisi, etc.,

Lucr. 5, 1446; cf. id. 3, 972:

respiciens, an vera soror,

Val. Fl. 6, 661.—

Pregn., to look at with solicitude, i. e. to have a care for, regard, be mindful of, consider, respect, etc. (in this sense mostly act.; cf. provideo).

Of a protecting deity:

di homines respiciunt,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 29:

deus respiciet nos aliquis,

id. Bacch. 4, 2, 39; Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 34; id. Hec. 5, 2, 6:

nisi quis nos deus respexerit,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 6: [p. 1581] Sive neglectum genus et nepotes Respicis auctor, Hor. C. 1, 2, 36; Verg. E. 1, 28:

nisi idem deus, qui, etc., respexerit rem publicam,

Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2:

et me et te, nisi quid dī respiciunt, perdidi,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 19.— Hence, Rēspĭcĭens, the Provident, an epithet of Fortuna:

ad opem ferendam,

Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28; Inscr. Orell. 477; 1766.—

Rarely, in a bad sense, of an avenging deity: at vos, devota capita, respiciant di perjuriorum vindices,

may they remember it against you, Just. 14, 4, 10.—

Of persons that have a care or regard for any thing:

hercle alius nemo respicit nos,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 55; so,

aliquem,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 19; id. Aul. 2, 2, 54:

age, me in tuis secundis respice,

Ter. And. 5, 6, 11; id. Ad. 5, 8, 9:

miseros aratores,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 10, § 26; Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

sin Caesarem respiciant,

id. B. C. 1, 1; Mart. 10, 10, 5:

non Pylium Nestora respicis,

Hor. C. 1, 15, 22:

quantum quisque ferat respiciendus erit,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 38: mox deos respexere;

restitui Capitolium placuit,

bethought themselves of, Tac. H. 4, 4:

aetatem tuam,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 87:

populi Romani commoda (with prospicere),

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 55, § 127:

salutem cum meam tum aliorum,

id. Planc 38, 91; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 5:

rem publicam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 46, 118; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 3:

mala sua,

Lucr. 4, 1159 et saep. —With se, to think of or have regard for one ' s self, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 18; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 18; 5, 1, 46; Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79; id. pro Scaur. Fragm. 41, p. 267 Orell.: quod si Caesar se respexerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 8.—With ad (Quintilian):

ad utilitatem Ligarii respicit,

looks to the advantage of, Quint. 9, 2, 28; so,

modice ad hanc partem,

id. 9, 4, 36:

Graecas litteras (corresp. to studere Latinis),

id. 1, 12, 6:

saepius ad curam rerum ab elocutione,

id. 10, 1, 120.—With an abstr. subj.:

si quid pietas antiqua labores Respicit humanos,

Verg. A. 5, 689.— With object-clause, to observe, perceive, notice:

respicio nihili meam vos gratiam facere,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 68.

sub-scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a.

To write underneath or below (class.; cf. subnoto).

In gen.:

statuis inauratis... subscripsit, Reges ab se in gratiam esse reductos,

Cic. Clu. 36, 101; cf.:

subscripsere quidam L. Bruti statuae: utinam viveres, etc.,

Suet. Caes. 80:

si quaeret Pater Urbium Subscribi statuis,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 28; cf.:

meo subscribi causa sepulcro,

Ov. M. 9, 563: quarum (litterarum) exemplum subscripsi, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 13, A, § 1; Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 3; cf.:

seminaria ulmorum parentur eā ratione, quam deinceps subscripsimus,

Col. 5, 6, 5.—

In partic.

Jurid. t. t., to write down, sign, or subscribe one's name to an accusation (either as principal prosecutor or as seconding others), together with the ground of the charge; hence, in gen., to charge, accuse, prosecute: in L. Popillium subscripsit L. Gellius, quod is pecuniam accepisset, quo innocentem condemnaret, Cic. Clu. 47, 131; cf.:

quia parricidii causa subscripta esset,

id. Inv. 2, 19, 58:

Gabinium de ambitu reum fecit P. Sulla, subscribente privigno Memmio, fratre Caecilio, etc.,

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

Capito Agrippae subscripsit in C. Cassium,

Vell. 2, 69, 5; and:

accusanti patrono subscripsit,

Suet. Rhet. 3; Nep. Att. 6, 3:

cras subscribam homini dicam,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 5:

in crimen,

Dig. 47, 1, 3; 47, 2, 92:

in crimine,

ib. 48, 10, 24.—

Publicists' t. t., of the censor, to write down, set down, note down the reason of his official censure under or against the name of the person censured:

video animadvertisse censores in judices quosdam illius consilii Juniani, cum istam ipsam causam subscriberent,

Cic. Clu. 42, 119:

censor C. Ateium notavit, quod ementitum auspicia subscripsit,

id. Div. 1, 16, 29:

haec quae de judicio corrupto subscripserint, etc.,

id. Clu. 45, 127: ac primum illud statuamus, utrum quia censores subscripserint, ita sit;

an quia ita fuerit, illi subscripserint,

id. ib. 44, 123:

quod censores de ceteris subscripserunt,

Quint. 5, 13, 33.—

To sign, subscribe a document (by appending one's name or a formula of greeting;

perh. not ante-Aug.): omnes (tutores) debent unius editioni subscribere,

Dig. 2, 13, 6:

rationibus, testamento,

ib. 40, 7, 40;

for which, also, rationes,

ib. 35, 1, 80 fin.; 34, 3, 12:

si subscripserit in tabulis emptionis, concessisse videtur,

ib. 20, 6, 8 fin.:

cum de supplicio cujusdam capite damnati, ut ex more subscriberet, admoneretur,

Suet. Ner. 10; id. Calig. 29:

ipse Commodus in subscribendo tardus et neglegens, ita ut libellis una forma multis subscriberet, in epistolis autem plurimis Vale tantum scriberet,

Lampr. Commod. 13; Suet. Tib. 32 Wolf (cf. Dio, 57, 11).—

Transf.

To assent to, agree to, approve of any thing:

nec quicquam prius pro potestate subscripsit, quam quingenties sestertium ad peragendam Auream domum,

Suet. Oth. 7:

Caesaris irae,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 3:

aut gratiae aut odio suo,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 57:

odiis accusationibusque Hannibalis,

Liv. 33, 47:

orationi alicujus,

id. 10, 22:

luxuriae,

Cels. 3, 4:

si fortuna voto subscripserit,

Col. 1, 2, 3: tuo desiderio, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 95 (96):

amoribus alicujus,

Val. Max. 4, 7, 4.—

To grant, allow, accord a thing to any one (post-class.), Tert. Virg. Vel. 10; id. Idol. 13; id. Anim. 40.—

(With the idea of the verb predom.) To write or note down (=notare;

very rare): numerum aratorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 51, § 120:

audita,

Quint. 12, 8, 8:

quaedam,

Suet. Aug. 27; cf.:

suspiria nostra (a delatoribus),

Tac. Agr. 45 (acc. to others this passage belongs to B. 1.).