praebĭta

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occāsĭo, ōnis, f. [occĭdo, a falling out, a happening, hap; hence], an occasion, opportunity, fit time, convenient season, favorable moment for doing any thing; eukairia, kairos (syn.: opportunitas, locus, facultas).

In gen.:

occasio est pars temporis, habens in se alicujus rei idoneam faciendi aut non faciendi opportunitatem... in occasione, ad spatium temporis, faciendi quaedam opportunitas intellegitur adjuncta,

Cic. Inv. 1, 27, 40: tempus actionis opportunum Graece eukairia, Latine appellatur occasio, id. Off. 1, 40, 142: occasio opportunitas temporis casu quodam provenientis est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 178 Müll.:

dum datur mihi occasio Tempusque,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 30; cf.:

nunc occasio est et tempus,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 3; Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 4:

an ego occasionem tantam, tam brevem, tam optatam, tam insperatam Amitterem?

id. Eun. 3, 5, 56:

minima,

Suet. Calig. 14; cf.

summa,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 2 infra: occasionem nancisci, Afran. ap. Non. 308, 13:

quem, si interficere voluisset, quantae quoties occasiones, quam praeclarae fuerunt,

Cic. Mil. 14, 38:

occasio opprimendi,

id. ib. 15:

inrumpendi in urbem,

Curt. 4, 5, 16:

resistendi,

id. 7, 4, 4: majores occasiones ad opitulandum haberem, more opportunities, Planc [p. 1250] up. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 2:

ut primum occasio data est rem publicam defendendi,

as soon as an opportunity presented itself, Cic. Fam. 12, 242:

occasionem sibi ad occupandam Asiam oblatam esse arbitratur,

has presented itself, id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4:

amplam occasionem calumniae nactus,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 25, § 61:

occasio mirifica,

id. Att. 2, 14, 2:

opportuna,

Val. Max. 5, 4, 3:

quo faciliorem occasionem Salvio praebuit perficiendi conata,

Suet. Galb. 17:

occasio minor opinione,

id. Caes. 3:

tam bona,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 9:

lepida,

id. Mil. 4, 1, 30:

bellissima,

Petr. S. 25:

occasionem amittere,

to lose, let slip, Cic. Caecin. 5, 15:

omittere,

Suet. Cal. 14; so,

praetermittere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 25:

capere,

to seize, Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 5:

arripere,

Liv. 35, 12, 17:

occasiones quaerere,

Sen. Ben. 3, 14, 4:

rapere de die,

Hor. Epod. 13, 4:

amplecti,

Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 1:

sumere,

Plin. 2, 1, 1, § 3:

occasione uti,

Just. 38, 5, 1:

non deesse occasioni,

not to miss, to profit by, Caes. B. C. 3, 79:

cunctationem hostium suam fore occasionem rati,

Curt. 4, 6, 13:

dum datur mihi occasio tempusque,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 29:

ne a fortunā datam occasionem liberandae Graeciae dimitterent,

Nep. Milt. 3, 3; id. Alc. 8, 5:

cujus (rei) se occasio dederit,

Quint. 12, 2, 12: (paratus) depugnare, si occasio tulerit, mori, si casus inciderit, etc., Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6:

occasionem aperire ad invadendum,

Liv. 4, 53, 9:

occasionem sibi ad occupandam Asiam oblatam esse,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4:

occasione datā,

should an opportunity offer, id. Phil. 7, 6, 18; cf.:

occasione oblatā simultates deponere,

Suet. Caes. 73:

praebere,

id. Galb. 17:

offerre,

id. Aug. 16:

per occasionem,

on a favorable opportunity, Liv. 30, 3:

rem inmaturam nisi per occasionem aperire noluerat,

id. 1, 5, 5; 1, 53, 7; 2, 11, 2; Sall. C. 51, 6:

fratris memoriā per omnem occasionem celebratā,

on every occasion, Suet. Claud. 11; id. Aug. 67:

ad occasionem aurae evehi,

the wind being fair, taking advantage of a fair wind, id. ib. 97:

levia proelia ex occasione hujus aut illius partis oriebantur,

Liv. 24, 3, 17:

ex occasione,

as occasion offered, Suet. Caes. 60:

occasione omni,

on every occasion, id. Claud. 42.—With inf.:

nunc adest occasio Benefacta cumulare = occasio cumulandi,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 63:

nunc est illa occasio inimicum ulcisci,

id. Pers. 4, 7, 15:

agere tuam rem occasio est,

id. Poen. 3, 3, 46; 5, 4, 42; id. Curc. 1, 1, 60; cf.:

summa eludendi occasio'st mihi nunc senes Et Phaedriae curam adimere,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 45.—With ut and subj.:

fuit occasio, si vellet, jam pridem argentum ut daret,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 51:

quoniam occasio fuit Mea virtute parta ut quantum velles sumeres,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 22:

rara haec occasio est, ut referri possint divini honores,

Quint. 3, 7, 17.—

Personified: Occasio, Opportunity, as a goddess, Phaedr. 5, 8; Aus. Epigr. 12, 3.—

In partic.

Facility or means of having a thing:

solitudinis,

Tac. A. 15, 50.—

A supply, stock (post-Aug.):

oleae,

Col. 9, 1:

lapidum,

Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 191:

vetusti olei,

id. 23, 4, 40, § 82.—

A pretext, plea, plausible explanation:

hāc illi opus est occasione, ne illum talium precum pudeat,

Quint. 3, 8, 47:

occasiones et ex causis et ex dictis adversariorum oriuntur,

id. 6, 1, 5; 12, 10, 13:

quantulacunque adeo est occasio, sufficit irae,

Juv. 13, 183.—

Occasion, motive, reason:

non habeo ullam occasionem, ut apud te falsa fabuler,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 38.—

Milit. t. t., a dash, raid, surprise:

occasionis esse rem, non proelii,

they were undertaking a surprise, not a battle, Caes. B. G. 7, 45, 9:

cujus (belli) maxima momenta in occasionibus sunt,

Sen. Ira, 3, 21, 1:

occasionibus imminere,

Front. 2, 5, 22. —

A cause (late Lat.): cum calcis ictu mortis occasio praebita videatur, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 10, 1.

praebĕo, ŭi, ĭtum (old inf. praeberier, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 49; id. Am. 4, 2, 7), 2, v. a. [contr. from praehibeo, q. v. from prae-habeo], to hold forth, reach out, proffer, offer (class., esp. in the trop. signif.; syn.: ministro, suppedito, suggero).

Lit.:

canis parvulo praebens ubera,

Just. 1, 4:

cibum de manu,

Col. 9, 1, 6: collum cultris, Juv [p. 1411] 10, 269:

praebenda gladio cervix,

id. 10, 345:

jugulum,

Sen. Agam. 973:

cervicem,

Petr. 97:

os ad contumeliam,

Liv. 4, 35:

verberibus manus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 16:

aures,

to give ear, listen, attend, Liv. 38, 52; Vulg.Sap. 6, 3: aurem, id. Job, 6, 28.—

Transf., in gen., to give, grant, furnish, supply:

aurum, vestem, purpuram Bene praebeo, nec quicquam eges,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 11:

panem,

Nep. Them. 10, 3:

sumptum,

Just. 31, 4, 1:

spectaculum,

Sall. J. 14, 23:

sponsalia,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 1: vicem, to supply the place of:

vicem postium,

to supply the place of posts, serve as posts, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 31:

eundem usum,

id. 28, 11, 49, § 179.—

Trop., to give, grant, furnish, render, cause, make, occasion; to show, exhibit, represent; and with se, to show, approve, behave one's self in a certain manner:

operam reipublicae,

Liv. 5, 4:

materiam seditionis,

id. 3, 46:

honorem alicui,

Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19 (al. perhibuit):

fidem alicui in periculis,

Nep. Att. 4, 4.—Esp. with se and acc. of adj.:

se talem alicui, qualem, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11:

in re misericordem et in testimonio religiosum se praebuit,

id. Caecin. 10, 26:

Pompeius se auctorem meae salutis praebuit,

id. Sest. 50, 107:

in eo vehementer se moderatum praebere,

id. Off. 2, 21, 73:

se in malis hominem praebuit,

id. Fam. 15, 17, 3:

se dignum suis majoribus,

id. ib. 2, 18, 3:

in eos, qui ea perficere voluerunt, me severum vehementemque praebeo,

id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

me similem in utroque praebui,

towards both, id. Sull. 8, 16.—With nom. of adj. (very rare):

ut vobis videtur, praebebit se periculis fortis,

Sen. Ep. 85, 26.—With abl.:

pari se virtute praebuit,

Nep. Dat. 2, 1:

in eo magistratu pari diligentiā se Hannibal praebuit,

id. Hann. 7, 5.—So, also, without se:

Phormio in hac re ut aliis strenuum hominem praebuit,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 12; so, too, in neutr. signif. of a woman, to surrender herself to her lover:

odi quae praebet, quia sit praebere necesse,

Ov. A. A. 2, 685:

praebere se legibus,

i. e. to resign one's self to, submit to, Sen. Ep. 70, 9:

praebere causam tollendi indutias,

to give, Liv. 30, 4:

suspicionem insidiarum,

Nep. Dat. 10, 3:

spem impunitatis aut locum peccandi,

Col. 11, 1:

gaudium et metum,

Liv. 25, 27:

tumultum,

id. 28, 1:

opinionem timoris,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17:

sonitum,

Liv. 7, 36:

caput argutae historiae,

matter for an entertaining story, Prop. 3 (4), 20, 28:

ludos,

to furnish sport, Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 9.—With an obj.-clause, to permit, allow, let a thing be done ( poet.):

quae toties rapta est, praebuit ipsa rapi,

suffered herself to be carried off, Ov. H. 5, 132.—Hence, praebĭta, ōrum, n., what is furnished for support, allowance (postAug.):

annua,

Col. 1, 8, 17:

praebitis annuis privavit,

Suet. Tib. 50.