suitors

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Mĕdon, ontis, m., = Medôn.

A Centaur, Ov. M. 12, 303.—

Son of Codrus, king of Athens, the first archon; hence, Mĕdontĭdae, ārum, m., his descendants, Vell. 1, 2, 2.—

One of Penelope's suitors; acc. Medonta, Sabin. Ep. 1, 47.

Mĕdon, ontis, m., = Medôn.

A Centaur, Ov. M. 12, 303.—

Son of Codrus, king of Athens, the first archon; hence, Mĕdontĭdae, ārum, m., his descendants, Vell. 1, 2, 2.—

One of Penelope's suitors; acc. Medonta, Sabin. Ep. 1, 47.

Phīdippus, i, m., = Pheidippos.

Grandson of Hercules, one of Helen's suitors, Hyg. Fab. 80.—

A famous courier, v. Phidippides.—

A physician of king Deiotarus, Cic. Deiot. 6, 17.

Pŏlybus, i, m., = Polubos.

A king of Corinth, at whose court Œdipus was brought up, Stat. Th. 1, 64; Hyg. Fab. 66; 67; Sen. Oedip. 12.—

One of Penelope's suitors, Ov. H. 1, 91.

rĕ-pello, reppuli (less correctly repuli), rĕpulsum, 3, v. a., to drive, crowd, or thrust back; to reject, repulse, repel, etc., = reicere (freq. and class.; syn.: reicio, repono, removeo).

Lit.:

eum ego meis Dictis malis his foribus atque hac reppuli, rejeci hominem,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 19:

aliquem foribus,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 90:

foribus tam saepe repulsus,

Ov. Am. 3, 11, 9:

homines inermos armis,

Cic. Caecin. 12, 33:

adversarius, qui sit et feriendus et repellendus,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

aliquem ab hoc templo,

id. Phil. 14, 3, 8:

homines a templi aditu,

id. Dom. 21, 54:

Sabinos a moenibus urbis,

id. Rep. 2, 20, 36:

hostes a ponte,

Caes. B. C. 1, 16;

ab castris,

id. ib. 1, 75:

a citeriore ripā,

Front. Strat. 1, 4, 10:

aliquem inde,

Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 63:

hostes in silvas,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28 fin.:

in oppidum,

id. ib. 3, 22 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 14 fin.— Absol.:

nostri acriter in eos impetu facto, repulerunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17. —Of impersonal objects (mostly poet.):

reppulit mihi manum,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 14; cf. Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 72:

telum aere repulsum,

repelled, Verg. A. 2, 545:

mensas,

to push back, Ov. M. 6, 661; cf.

aras,

id. ib. 9, 164:

repagula,

to shove back, id. ib. 2, 157:

tellurem mediā undā,

crowds back, id. ib. 15, 292:

navem a terrā, Auct. B. Alex. 20: serpentes,

Amm. 14, 2, 5. — Poet., of the apparent pushing back or away of the starting-point, in flying up or sailing away:

Oceani spretos pede reppulit amnes,

Verg. G. 4, 233; cf.:

cum subito juvenis, pedibus tellure repulsā, Arduus in nubes abiit,

spurning the ground, Ov. M. 4, 710:

impressā tellurem reppulit hastā,

id. ib. 2, 786;

6, 512: aera repulsa,

i. e. cymbals struck together, Tib. 1, 3, 24; 1, 8, 22; cf.:

aera Aere repulsa,

Ov. M. 3, 533.—

Trop., to drive away, reject, remove; to keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse, etc.:

repelli oratorem a gubernaculis civitatum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46:

aliquem a consulatu,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:

ab hoc conatu,

id. Or. 11, 36:

a cognitione legum,

id. Balb. 14, 32:

ab impediendo ac laedendo,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 14, 55:

ab hac spe repulsi Nervii,

Caes. B. G. 5, 42:

repulsum ab amicitiā,

Sall. J. 102, 13:

fracti bello fatisque repulsi,

Verg. A. 2, 13:

repulsus ille veritatis viribus,

Phaedr. 1, 1, 9:

hinc quoque repulsus,

Nep. Lys. 3:

per colloquia repulsus a Lepido,

Vell. 2, 63, 1. —

Of suitors for office,

Cic. Planc. 21, 51:

haud repulsus abibis,

Sall. J. 110, 8; Liv. 39, 32. —

Of lovers: saepe roges aliquid, saepe repulsus eas,

Prop. 2, 4, 2 (12):

proci repulsi,

Ov. M. 13, 735:

aliquam ad meretricium quaestum,

to drive, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 43.—

Of abstract objects: dolorem a se repellere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

furores Clodii a cervicibus vestris,

id. Mil. 28, 77:

illius alterum consulatum a re publicā,

id. Att. 7, 18, 2:

quod tamen a verā longe ratione repulsum'st,

removed, Lucr. 1, 880; cf. id. 2, 645; 5, 406:

tegimenta ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 6, 767: cute ictus, Ov. M. 3, 64:

pericula,

Cic. Mur. 14, 30; Caes. B. C. 1, 79, 2:

vim (opp. inferre),

Cic. Mil. 19, 51:

crimen (with transferre),

Quint. 4, 2, 26:

temptamina,

Ov. M. 7, 735:

facinus,

id. ib. 15, 777:

fraudem,

id. A. A. 3, 491:

verba,

id. P. 4, 1, 19:

ver hiemem repellit,

id. M. 10, 165:

conubia nostra,

to reject, disdain, Verg. A. 4, 214 amorem, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 76:

preces,

id. M. 14, 377:

diadema,

to refuse, reject, Vell. 2, 56, 4; Suet. Caes. 79; cf.

dictaturam,

Vell. 2, 89, 5:

ut contumelia repellatur,

be discarded, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 137.— Hence, rĕpulsus, a, um, P. a., removed, remote; once in Cato: ecquis incultior, religiosior, desertior, publicis negotiis repulsior, Cato ap. Fest. p. 286, and ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 287 Müll.

spondĕo, spŏpondi, sponsum, 2 ( perf. spepondi, Cic., Caes., and Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 12 sq.; Inscr. Orell. 4358;

without redup. sponderat,

Tert. Carm. adv. Mart. 3, 135; subj. sponsis = spoponderis, an ancient formula of prayer in Fest. p. 351 Müll.), v. a. [akin with spendô, to pour out, = libare; cf. spondai, league].

Jurid. and publicists' t. t.

In bargains, covenants, treaties, etc., to promise solemnly, to bind, engage, or pledge one's self (class.; syn.: recipio, stipulor, promitto; cf.: vadimonium obire, vadari); according to the civil law in its original form, it was essential to a binding contract verbally made (verbis) that a proposition and its acceptance should be expressed by the question spondes? and the answer spondeo; and only at a later period was the use of promitto, etc., valid (v. Sandars, Introd. ad Just. Inst. p. LV): verbis obligatio fit ex interrogatione et responsione, velut, Dari spondes? Spondeo. Dabis? Dabo. Promittis? Promitto;

sed haec quidem verborum obligatio: dari spondes? spondeo, propria civium Romanorum est, cetera vero juris gentium sunt,

Gai. Inst. 3, 91 sq.; Dig. 45, 1, 126; 45, 1, 133; cf.

the whole title,

ib. 45, 1: De verborum obligationibus: He. Aeternum tibi dapinabo victum, si vera autumas... Er. Sponden' tu istut? He. Spondeo, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 118: qui stulte spondet, Cato ap. Rufin. 18, p. 210:

quis stipulatus est? Ubi? Quo die? Quis spopondisse me dicit? Nemo,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 13:

ut aliquando spondere se diceret,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142:

si quis quod spopondit, quā in re verbo se obligavit uno, si id non facit, etc.,

id. Caecin. 3, 7:

faeneris, quod stipulanti spoponderam tibi, reliquam pensiunculam percipe,

Col. 10 praef.:

ego meā fide spondeo futurum ut omnia invenias, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 10.—

To promise for another, to become security for a person, to enter bail, etc.:

quod multis benigne fecerit, pro multis spoponderit,

has become security, Cic. Planc. 19, 47:

sed tamen scire velim quando dicar spopondisse et pro patre anne pro filio,

id. Att. 12, 14, 2:

quod pro Cornificio me abhinc annis XXV. spopondisse dicit Flavius,

id. ib. 12, 17:

et se quisque paratum ad spondendum Icilio ostendere,

Liv. 3, 46, 7:

sponsum diceres advocasse, Cic. Fragm. Clod. et Cur. 3, 4, p. 29 B. and K.: hic sponsum vocat,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 67:

sponsum descendam, quia promisi,

Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2. —

Transf., of promises or pledges made in behalf of a government, etc.:

non foedere pax Caudina, sed per sponsionem facta est... Spoponderunt consules, legati, quaestores, tribuni militum,

Liv. 9, 5, 4:

quod spondendo pacem servassent exercitum,

id. 9, 8, 15:

quid tandem si spopondissemus urbem hanc relicturum populum Romanum?

id. 9, 9, 6:

ea demum sponsio esset, quam populi jussu spopondissemus,

id. 9, 9, 13:

hosti nihil spopondistis, civem neminem spondere pro vobis jussistis,

id. 9, 9, 16.—

Esp., to promise or engage in marriage, betroth: qui uxorem ducturus erat ab eo unde ducenda erat, stipulabatur eam in matrimonium ductam iri; [p. 1746] qui daturus erat itidem spondebat. Tum quae promissa erat sponsa appellabatur, qui spoponderat ducturum, sponsus, Sulp. Dot. ap. Gell. 4, 4, 2: Ly. Istac lege filiam tuam sponden' mihi uxorem dari? Ch. Spondeo. Ca. Et ego spondeo idem hoc, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 38 sq.; 2, 4, 172: Me. Etiam mihi despondes filiam? Eu. Illis legibus, Cum illā dote quam tibi dixi. Me. Sponden' ergo? Eu. Spondeo, id. Aul. 2, 2, 78: Ph. Spondesne, miles, mi hanc uxorem? Th. Spondeo. Ph. Et ego huic victum spondeo, id. Curc. 5, 2, 73 sq.: sponden tu ergo tuam gnatam uxorem mihi? Ch. Spondeo et mille auri Philippum dotis, id. Trin. 5, 2, 34.—Hence, of women, alicui sponsam esse, to be betrothed, engaged to a man:

si volt Demipho Dare quantum ab hac accipio, quae sponsa est mihi,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 52:

scis, sponsam mihi (esse)?

id. Eun. 5, 9 (8), 6; Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 101 sq.; 2, 4, 172; 2, 4, 174; id. Poen. 5, 3, 43.—

= sponsionem facere (v. sponsio, II.), to lay a judicial wager, to enter into an agreement to pay contingent on the truth or falsity of an assertion: si hoc ita est, qui spondet mille nummūm? P. Afric. ap. Gell. 6 (7), 11, 9.— So, absol.:

cum illi jacenti latera tunderentur, ut aliquando spondere se diceret,

should declare that he made the required wager, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142 (cf. sponsum, P. a. fin. infra); Dig. 11, 5, 3.—

In gen., to promise sacredly, to warrant, vow (class.).

With fut. inf.:

promitto, recipio, spondeo, C. Caesarem talem semper fore civem, qualis hodie sit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 51:

ut (eum) inimicissimum huic conjurationi futurum esse, promittam et spondeam,

id. Mur. 41, 90:

et ipse spondeo et omnes hoc tibi tui pro me recipient, te fructum esse capturum, etc.,

id. Fam. 13, 50, 2:

quis est qui spondeat eundum, si differtur bellum, animum postea fore,

Liv. 5, 5, 9:

quae si perpetua concordia sit, quis non spondere ausit, maximum hoc imperium brevi futurum esse?

id. 5, 3, 10:

spondebant animis id (bellum) P. Cornelium finiturum,

with full conviction, id. 28, 38, 9; cf. id. 3, 59, 3:

sponde affore reges,

Val. Fl. 3, 504.—

With inf. pres., to warrant, give assurance of an existing fact:

spondebo enim tibi, vel potius spondeo in meque recipio, eos esse M'. Curii mores,

Cic. Fam. 13, 17, 2.—

With acc. of thing (and often dat. pers.):

quibus cum consulem suum reliquissent, honores et praemia spopondistis,

Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 28: mihi sex menses sati' sunt vitae, septimum Orco spondeo, Poët. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 22: ea spondent, confirmant, quae, quidem mihi exploratiora essent, si remansissem, Cic Att. 11, 6, 3:

quod ego non modo de me tibi spondere possum, sed de te etiam mihi,

id. Fam. 15, 21, 1:

ac de infante (Tiberio) Scribonius mathematicus praeclara spopondit,

Suet. Tib. 14:

tantum sibi vel de viribus suis, vel de fortunā spondentes,

Just. 3, 4, 1; Amm. 24, 1, 8:

illius et dites monitis spondentibus Indi,

Val. Fl. 6, 117:

non si mihi Juppiter auctor Spondeat, hoc sperem Italiam contingere caelo,

Verg. A. 5, 18:

spondere fidem,

Ov. M. 10, 395:

officium Amori,

id. ib. 10, 418.—

Transf., of inanim. or abstract subjects (mostly poet. and post-Aug.):

nec quicquam placidum spondentia Martis Sidera presserunt,

Ov. Ib. 217:

quod prope diem futurum spondet et virtus et fortuna vestra,

Liv. 7, 30, 8:

eorum hominum erat, qui, quantum spes spopondisset, cuperent, ni, etc.,

id. 45, 19, 7:

magna de illo (Philippo) spes fuit propter ipsius ingenium, quod magnum spondebat virum,

Just. 7, 6, 1.— Hence, sponsus, a, um, P. a., promised, engaged, betrothed, affianced; substt,

sponsus, i, m., a betrothed man, a bridegroom: virgo Sponso superba, Titin. ap. Non. 305, 5:

accede ad sponsum audacter,

id. ib. 227, 15; Cic. Inv. 2, 26, 78:

sponsus regius,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 10.— Poet., of Penelope's suitors, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 28.—

spon-sa, ae, f., a betrothed woman, a bride:

scio equidem, sponsam tibi esse et filium ex sponsā tuā,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 12; Ter. And. 2, 1, 24:

flebilis sponsa,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 21 et saep.—Prov.: suam cuique sponsam, mihi meam, i. e. every one to his taste, Atil. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 20, 3.—

sponsum, i, n., a covenant, agreement, engagement: sponsum negare, to break or disown one's pledge, Hor. S. 1, 3, 95:

sponsus contra sponsum rogatus,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 107 Müll.—

Esp., a judicial wager (cf. sponsio, II.):

ex sponso egit,

Cic. Quint. 9, 32.