ex-auctōro

auctōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (access. form auctōror, āri, Dig. 26, 8, 4; 27, 6, 9; App. M. 9, p. 225, 40; Tert. ad Scap. 1) [auctor].

To become security for, to give a pledge as bondsman, Dig. 27, 6, 9; 26, 8, 4.— Trop., in the pass.:

observatio satis auctorata consensūs patrocinio,

confirmed, supported, Tert. Cor. Mil. 2.—

More freq. se auctorare, or pass. auctorari, to bind or oblige one ' s self to something, to hire one ' s self out for some service (mostly post-Aug.;

never in Cic.): vindemitor auctoratus,

Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 10.—Esp. of gladiators: Quid refert, uri virgis ferroque necari Auctoratus eas, * Hor. S. 2, 7, 59 (qui se vendunt ludo (gladiatorio) auctorati vocantur;

auctoratio enim dicitur venditio gladiatorum, Acro): proximo munere inter novos auctoratos ferulis vapulare placet,

Sen. Apocol.p.251 Bip.:

auctoratus ob sepeliendum patrem,

Quint. Decl. 302; Inscr. Orell. 4404.—Hence, in the pun:

ipsum magis auctoratum populum Romanum circumferens,

i. e. brought into greater danger than the gladiators, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 117.—Hence,

In gen., to bind:

eo pignore velut auctoratum sibi proditorem ratus est,

Liv. 36, 10; Manil. 5, 340.—

Sibi mortem aliquā re, to bring death to one ' s self by some means, Vell. 2, 30.

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auctōrāmentum, i, n. [auctoro].

That which binds or obliges to the performance of certain services; hence (in concr.), a contract, stipulation: illius turpissimi auctoramenti (sc. gladiatorii) verba sunt;

uri, vinciri ferroque necari,

Sen. Ep. 37.— More freq.,

That for which one binds himself to some service or duty (as that of soldiers, gladiators, etc.), wages, pay, hire, reward.

Lit.: est in illis ipsa merces, auctoramentum servitutis, *Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; so Tert. Apol. 39:

rudiariis revocatis auctoramento centenūm milium,

Suet. Tib. 7:

jugulati civis Romani auctoramentum,

Vell. 2, 28, 3; 2, 66, 3.—

Trop., reward:

nullum sine auctoramento malum est,

Sen. Ep. 69:

discriminis,

Eum. Pan. ad Constant. 12.

ex-auctōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. Milit. t. t., to discharge from service (after sixteen years of service, before the end of the usual term of twenty years, i. e. before the regular missio; see missio. This discharge was either an honorable one or a punishment. The honorably discharged soldiers remained four years in the army as a separate corps under a vexillum, with peculiar privileges; cf. mitto, dimitto).

Prop.

Of an honorable discharge (not ante-Aug.):

omnes milites exauctorati domum dimitterentur,

Liv. 32, 1; 25, 20; 29, 1; 36, 40 fin.; 41, 5 fin.; Suet. Tib. 30; Tac. A. 1, 36 fin.:

milites licentia sola se, ubi velint, exauctorent,

Liv. 8, 34, 9.—

In a bad sense, to dismiss, cashier on account of a crime = dimittere ignominiae causa, Dig. 3, 2, 2, § 2; Suet. Aug. 24; id. Vitell. 10; id. Vesp. 8; Tac. H. 1, 20; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 638 a.—

Trop.:

verba exauctorata a sequenti aetate repudiataque,

discarded, obsolete, Macr. S. 1, 5.