pugnam+non+detrectare

dē-posco, pŏposci, 3, v. a., to demand, require, request earnestly (freq. and class.).

In gen.:

unum ab omnibus sociis et civibus ad id bellum imperatorem deposci atque expeti,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5; cf. id. 15, 44:

id non modo non recusem, sed etiam appetam atque deposcam,

id. Phil. 3, 13, 33;

so opp. recusare,

id. Fl. 38 fin.:

sibi naves,

Caes. B. C. 1, 56, 3:

pugnam,

Suet. Oth. 9; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 1; 2, 1, 3:

pericula (opp. detrectare),

Tac. Agr. 11 et saep. — Absol.:

de proelio cogitandum, sicut semper depoposcimus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85 fin.:

omnibus pollicitationibus deposcunt, qui belli initium faciant,

id. B. G. 7, 1, 5.—

In partic.

To demand, request for one's self the performance of any duty or business:

sibi id muneris,

Caes. B. C. 1, 57:

tibi partis istas,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 45:

primas sibi partes,

Suet. Calig. 56:

illam sibi officiosam provinciam,

Cic. Sull. 18 fin.; cf.:

consulatum sibi,

Suet. Aug. 26:

sibi has urbanas insidias caedis atque incendiorum,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 6:

coloniam tutandam,

Suet. Vit. 1.—

To demand a person, in order to bring him to punishment:

aliquem ad mortem,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 5; cf.:

aliquem ad supplicium,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 38, 3:

aliquem ad poenam,

Suet. Tit. 6:

aliquem morti,

Tac. A. 1, 23:

ad ducem ipsum in poenam foederis rupti deposcendum,

Liv. 21, 6:

auctorem culpae,

id. 21, 10; cf.

Hannibalem,

Just. 32, 4, 8:

ausum Talia deposcunt,

Ov. M. 1, 200; Luc. 5, 296 et saep.: altera me deposcere putabatur, to demand my death, Cic. post red. in Sen. 13, 33.—

( Transf. from the gladiator's t. t.) To call out, challenge one to fight, Liv. 2, 49, 2; cf.

hostes,

Val. Fl. 5, 635.