write in verse

canto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cano], freq. in form, but mostly agrees in meaning with cano.

Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).

Of men:

Pamphilam Cantatum provocemus,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:

saltare et cantare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

neque enim vocum suavitate videntur aut novitate quădam cantandi revocare eos solitae (sirenes),

id. Fin. 5, 18, 49:

Arcades ambo Et cantare pares,

Verg. E. 7, 5; 10, 32:

cantando victus,

id. ib. 3, 21; Tib. 2, 1, 66:

adimam cantare severis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9:

ut (cantores) numquam inducant animum cantare rogati,

id. S. 1, 3, 2; Suet. Tit. 3: non est Cantandum, there is no occasion for singing, i. e. for imagination, fiction, Juv. 4, 35.—Of an actor:

cantante eo (Nerone) ne necessariă quidem causă excedere theatro licitum erat,

Suet. Ner. 23; 20; id. Vesp. 4 al.; cf.

under II. B. 2.: conducta veni, ut fidibus cantarem seni,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 64:

structis avenis,

Ov. M. 1, 677:

ad chordarum sonum,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1.—Less freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument (cf. cano):

tibiis,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1; id. ib. praef. § 1; Vulg. Luc. 7, 32:

lituo, tubă,

Gell. 20, 2, 2:

calamo,

Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 5: ad manum histrioni, in comedy, to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, Liv. 7, 2, 10; cf. Val. Max. 2, 4, 4.— Pass. impers.:

in caelo cantatur et psallitur,

Arn. 3, 21.—Prov.:

surdo,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 47, and ad surdas aures, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 61, to preach to deaf ears; cf. cano, II. B.—

Of the singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim in a singing tone, to sing, drawl: si cantas, male cantas, si legis, cantas, C. Caesar ap. Quint. 1, 8, 2; 11, 1, 56; 11, 3, 57; 11, 3, 58; 11, 3, 59; 11, 3, 60; cf. Juv. 10, 178.—Hence, to recite, declaim:

quaecumque sedens modo legerat, haec eadem... cantabit versibus isdem,

Juv. 7, 153.—

Of birds and fowls:

prius quam galli cantent,

crow, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 96; so,

deos gallis signum dedisse cantandi,

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 57:

cantantes aves,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 30.—

Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound:

pastoris bucina cantat,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30:

cantabat fanis, cantabat tibia ludis,

Ov. F. 6, 659 sq. —

Act., to make some person or thing the subject of one ' s singing, playing, or song (cf. cano, II.).

With the song itself, carmen, versus, etc., as object, to sing, play, recite:

carmina non prius Audita canto,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

rustica verba,

Tib. 2, 1, 52:

Hymen cantatus,

Ov. H. 12, 137; cf.:

Hymenaeum qui cantent,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7:

obscena,

Ov. F. 3, 676.—

With particular persons or things, the subjects of song, as objects, to sing, to celebrate or praise in song, sing of, write poetry upon, etc.:

celebrem deum,

Tib. 2, 1, 83:

absentem amicam,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 15:

rivos,

id. C. 2, 19, 11:

convivia, proelia virginum,

id. ib. 1, 6, 19:

Augusti tropaea,

id. ib. 2, 9, 19:

Pythia (sc. certamina),

id. A. P. 414:

cantari dignus,

Verg. E. 5, 54:

per totum cantabimur orbem,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 25; 2, 17, 33; cf.:

illa meis multum cantata libellis,

Mart. 9, 50, 1:

cantatus Achilles,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 29:

laudes tuas,

id. F. 2, 658. —Esp.,

Of an actor, to represent a part, to act (cf. supra, I. A.):

cantavit (Nero) Orestem matricidam, Oedipodem excaecatum, etc.,

Suet. Ner. 21:

Nioben,

id. ib. 21:

tragoedias,

id. ib. 21:

fabulam,

id. ib. 46 fin.:

epinicia,

id. ib. 43 fin. —

Hence, because the oracles were of old uttered in verse, of any mysterious, prophetic, or warning utterance, to predict, warn, point out, indicate, make known, say:

vera cantas? vana vellem,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 64. —Of inanimate things:

urna haec litterata est: ab se cantat cuja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21:

civi inmoeni scin quid cantari solet?

id. Trin. 2, 2, 69; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 61.—

To bring something repeatedly to recollection, to reiterate, harp upon, forewarn of or against:

haec dies noctes canto, ut caveas,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 12:

harum mores,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 19:

nam, ut scis, jam pridem istum canto Caesarem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 1:

quid fati provida cantet avis,

Tib. 2, 5, 12:

quae me juvene utique cantare solebant,

Quint. 8, 3, 76.—

In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27:

frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,

Verg. E. 8, 71:

cantata Luna,

exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13:

falx,

Ov. H. 6, 84:

herbae,

id. M. 7, 98:

ignis,

Sil. 1, 430:

tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,

an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—

To call forth, produce by charms:

et chelydris cantare soporem,

Sil. 8, 498:

cantata umbra,

Luc. 6, 767.

cōgo, cŏēgi, cŏactum (COGVIT = cogit, Inscr Marin Fratr Arv. p. 170), 3, v. a. [contr. from co-ago], to drive together to one point, to collect, compress, crowd, bring, or urge together, to assemble, gather together (class. and very freq.; syn.: colligo, congrego)

Lit.

In gen. (constr. as a verb of motion with in and acc., or with adv. of direction):

cogantur (oves) intro,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 15; Verg. E. 3, 98; cf.

pecus,

id. ib. 3, 20:

oves stabulis,

id. ib. 6, 85:

nubes in unum locum,

Lucr. 6, 274; cf. id. 6, 464; 6, 734:

oleam,

to collect, Cato, R. R. 64, 1; 65, 2; 144, 1.—So of the collecting together of fruits, also in Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Col. 11, 2, 70; 12, 3, 9:

talenta ad quindecim Coëgi,

received, collected, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94 Ruhnk.; so Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 120; id. Att. 6, 2, 8; id. Rab. Post. 11, 30:

Orgetorix ad judicium omnem suam familiam undique coëgit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 4; cf.:

multitudinem hominum ex agris, id. ib: concilium,

id. ib. 7, 77; Verg. A. 11, 304:

concilium Hypatam,

Liv. 36, 26, 1:

bucina cogebat priscos ad verba Quirites,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—So of the collecting of troops ( = contrahere), Caes. B. C. 1, 15 fin.; cf. Sall. J. 95, 1:

copias in unum locum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 6, 10 al.:

exercitum in unum,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 2:

multitudinem in unum,

Sall. J. 80, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 4:

in classem,

Liv. 36, 3, 5:

milites in provinciam,

id. 43, 15, 7:

exercitum Dyrrhachium,

Sall. H. 1, 31 Gerl.:

ad militiam aliquos,

id. J. 85, 3:

acies in proelia,

Verg. A. 9, 463:

auxilia undique,

id. ib. 8, 7.—And of the calling together of a senate:

quam cito senatum illo die coëgerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 39, 6 al.:

dum senatus cogeretur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 7:

coguntur senatores non pignoribus, sed gratiā,

id. Phil. 1, 5, 12; Liv. 1, 48, 3 al.; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—And of a single senator:

cur in senatum hesterno die tam acerbe cogerer?

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 11 sq.:

ex duabus syllabis in unam cogentes,

contracting, combining, Quint. 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt:

quod ex omnibus partibus cogitur,

id. 5, 14, 9.—

Esp.

Of liquids, to thicken, condense, curdle, coagulate:

mella frigore (opp. calore remittere),

Verg. G. 4, 36:

lac in duritiam,

Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 126; cf. Ov. M. 8, 666:

fel sole,

Plin. 29, 6, 37, § 116:

liquorem in nivem,

id. 2, 39, 39, § 105; 2, 42, 42, § 111.—Similarly:

coacta alvus,

hard fœces, Cels. 2, 8; 2, 3 al.; so,

vestis coacta,

fulled, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 192. —

Of places, to draw together or contract into a narrow place: Italia coacta in angustias, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 400:

saltus in arctas coactus fauces,

Liv. 22, 15, 11.—

Agmen, milit. t. t., to bring up the rear (cf. claudo, I. B. 2.), Liv. 34, 28, 7; 44, 4, 12; 35, 27, 15; 42, 64, 5; 42, 10, 8; Curt. 3, 3, 25 al.—

Trop.

In gen.:

hac re in angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur copiae (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.),

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2:

me ex comparato et constituto spatio defensionis in semihorae curriculum coëgisti,

have confined, restricted, Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 6:

in eam desperationem, ut,

Suet. Caes. 20:

verba in alternos pedes,

i. e. to write in elegiac verse, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 10.—More freq.,

Esp. with acc., inf., ut, ad, in or absol., to urge one to any action, to force, compel, constrain (syn.: impello, compello, adigo).

With acc.:

coactus legibus Eam uxorem ducet,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 41; cf. id. Ad. 1, 1, 44; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 36:

vis cogendae militiae,

Liv. 4, 26, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.—

With inf:

omnia vertere,

Lucr. 5, 831; id. 5, 1167; 6, 837:

mori me,

Verg. E. 2, 7:

plerasque ad officium redire,

Nep. Milt. 7, 1; Liv. 38, 13, 2:

neque cogi pugnare poterat,

id. 45, 41, 4 et saep.—

With ut:

vi coepi cogere ut rediret,

Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 26; so id. And. 4, 1, 30; id. Ad. 5, 3, 65; Lucr. 1, 976; 6, 127; Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Cic. de Or. 3, 3, 9; id. Fam. 5, 6, 1; Nep. Alcib. 4, 5; Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 2.—With subj. without ut, cf. Ter. And. 4, 4, 41 supra.—

With ad:

ingratiis ad depugnandum omnes,

Nep. Them. 4, 4:

ad lacrimas,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 57:

ad proelia,

Verg. A. 12, 581:

Samnites belloque ad bellum cogere,

Liv. 10, 11, 11; 23, 1, 4; 4, 22, 4; 34, 18, 2; Tac. A. 2, 21.—

With in:

in lacrimas,

Ov. Ib. 204; Quint. 3, 8, 23;

Auct. B. G. 8, 38: aliquem in deditionem,

Liv. 43, 1, 1; Sen. Clem. 1, 1.—

With acc.

With double acc.:

cogere aliquem aliquid, or cogi aliquid,

Quint. 11, 1, 22:

quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 44:

quod sua quemque mala cogebant,

Liv. 3, 7, 8; 6, 15, 13; 23, 10, 6:

cogi aliquid pro potestate ab tribuno,

to be extorted, id. 4, 26, 10:

quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames!

Verg. A. 3, 56.—

With acc. of the thing:

ne ad id, quod natura cogeret, ipse quoque sibi acceleraret,

Nep. Att. 22, 2:

quod cogere se putat posse, rogare non sustinet,

Vell. 2, 81, 1:

adulterium,

Ov. A. A. 2, 367.—

Sometimes as philos. t. t. = colligo, concludo, to infer, conclude:

ex quibus id quod volumus efficitur et cogitur,

Cic. Leg. 2, 13, 33; so id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 7, 4.—

Cogere agmen, to be the last (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.;

v. I. B. 3. supra): ut nec duces simus, nec agmen cogamus,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 1; cf.:

sic ordinandus est dies omnis, ut tamquam cogat agmen,

Sen. Ep. 12, 8.—Hence,

coactum, i, P. a. subst., a thick, fulled covering, a mattress (cf. coactilis), Caes. B. C. 3, 44 fin. —

coactus, a, um, P. a., forced, constrained, unnatural:

quod absurdum et nimis coactum foret,

Gell. 1, 4, 7; cf. id. 16, 14, 3:

lacrimae,

Verg. A. 2, 196; Ov. M. 6, 628.—

coactē, adv. (prop. in a contracted manner; hence), [p. 363]

Shortly, quickly:

coactius quid factum et festinantius,

Gell. 10, 11, 8.—

Accurately, strictly:

coactius interpretari verbum,

Gell. 19, 2.—

In a forced, constrained manner, Tert. Bapt. 12; id. Anim. 42 al.

cōgo, cŏēgi, cŏactum (COGVIT = cogit, Inscr Marin Fratr Arv. p. 170), 3, v. a. [contr. from co-ago], to drive together to one point, to collect, compress, crowd, bring, or urge together, to assemble, gather together (class. and very freq.; syn.: colligo, congrego)

Lit.

In gen. (constr. as a verb of motion with in and acc., or with adv. of direction):

cogantur (oves) intro,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 15; Verg. E. 3, 98; cf.

pecus,

id. ib. 3, 20:

oves stabulis,

id. ib. 6, 85:

nubes in unum locum,

Lucr. 6, 274; cf. id. 6, 464; 6, 734:

oleam,

to collect, Cato, R. R. 64, 1; 65, 2; 144, 1.—So of the collecting together of fruits, also in Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Col. 11, 2, 70; 12, 3, 9:

talenta ad quindecim Coëgi,

received, collected, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94 Ruhnk.; so Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 120; id. Att. 6, 2, 8; id. Rab. Post. 11, 30:

Orgetorix ad judicium omnem suam familiam undique coëgit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 4; cf.:

multitudinem hominum ex agris, id. ib: concilium,

id. ib. 7, 77; Verg. A. 11, 304:

concilium Hypatam,

Liv. 36, 26, 1:

bucina cogebat priscos ad verba Quirites,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—So of the collecting of troops ( = contrahere), Caes. B. C. 1, 15 fin.; cf. Sall. J. 95, 1:

copias in unum locum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 6, 10 al.:

exercitum in unum,

Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 2:

multitudinem in unum,

Sall. J. 80, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 4:

in classem,

Liv. 36, 3, 5:

milites in provinciam,

id. 43, 15, 7:

exercitum Dyrrhachium,

Sall. H. 1, 31 Gerl.:

ad militiam aliquos,

id. J. 85, 3:

acies in proelia,

Verg. A. 9, 463:

auxilia undique,

id. ib. 8, 7.—And of the calling together of a senate:

quam cito senatum illo die coëgerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 3; Liv. 3, 39, 6 al.:

dum senatus cogeretur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 7:

coguntur senatores non pignoribus, sed gratiā,

id. Phil. 1, 5, 12; Liv. 1, 48, 3 al.; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 1, 13.—And of a single senator:

cur in senatum hesterno die tam acerbe cogerer?

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 11 sq.:

ex duabus syllabis in unam cogentes,

contracting, combining, Quint. 1, 5, 23 Spald. and Zumpt:

quod ex omnibus partibus cogitur,

id. 5, 14, 9.—

Esp.

Of liquids, to thicken, condense, curdle, coagulate:

mella frigore (opp. calore remittere),

Verg. G. 4, 36:

lac in duritiam,

Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 126; cf. Ov. M. 8, 666:

fel sole,

Plin. 29, 6, 37, § 116:

liquorem in nivem,

id. 2, 39, 39, § 105; 2, 42, 42, § 111.—Similarly:

coacta alvus,

hard fœces, Cels. 2, 8; 2, 3 al.; so,

vestis coacta,

fulled, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 192. —

Of places, to draw together or contract into a narrow place: Italia coacta in angustias, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 400:

saltus in arctas coactus fauces,

Liv. 22, 15, 11.—

Agmen, milit. t. t., to bring up the rear (cf. claudo, I. B. 2.), Liv. 34, 28, 7; 44, 4, 12; 35, 27, 15; 42, 64, 5; 42, 10, 8; Curt. 3, 3, 25 al.—

Trop.

In gen.:

hac re in angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur copiae (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.),

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2:

me ex comparato et constituto spatio defensionis in semihorae curriculum coëgisti,

have confined, restricted, Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 6:

in eam desperationem, ut,

Suet. Caes. 20:

verba in alternos pedes,

i. e. to write in elegiac verse, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 10.—More freq.,

Esp. with acc., inf., ut, ad, in or absol., to urge one to any action, to force, compel, constrain (syn.: impello, compello, adigo).

With acc.:

coactus legibus Eam uxorem ducet,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 41; cf. id. Ad. 1, 1, 44; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 36:

vis cogendae militiae,

Liv. 4, 26, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.—

With inf:

omnia vertere,

Lucr. 5, 831; id. 5, 1167; 6, 837:

mori me,

Verg. E. 2, 7:

plerasque ad officium redire,

Nep. Milt. 7, 1; Liv. 38, 13, 2:

neque cogi pugnare poterat,

id. 45, 41, 4 et saep.—

With ut:

vi coepi cogere ut rediret,

Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 26; so id. And. 4, 1, 30; id. Ad. 5, 3, 65; Lucr. 1, 976; 6, 127; Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Cic. de Or. 3, 3, 9; id. Fam. 5, 6, 1; Nep. Alcib. 4, 5; Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 2.—With subj. without ut, cf. Ter. And. 4, 4, 41 supra.—

With ad:

ingratiis ad depugnandum omnes,

Nep. Them. 4, 4:

ad lacrimas,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 57:

ad proelia,

Verg. A. 12, 581:

Samnites belloque ad bellum cogere,

Liv. 10, 11, 11; 23, 1, 4; 4, 22, 4; 34, 18, 2; Tac. A. 2, 21.—

With in:

in lacrimas,

Ov. Ib. 204; Quint. 3, 8, 23;

Auct. B. G. 8, 38: aliquem in deditionem,

Liv. 43, 1, 1; Sen. Clem. 1, 1.—

With acc.

With double acc.:

cogere aliquem aliquid, or cogi aliquid,

Quint. 11, 1, 22:

quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 44:

quod sua quemque mala cogebant,

Liv. 3, 7, 8; 6, 15, 13; 23, 10, 6:

cogi aliquid pro potestate ab tribuno,

to be extorted, id. 4, 26, 10:

quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames!

Verg. A. 3, 56.—

With acc. of the thing:

ne ad id, quod natura cogeret, ipse quoque sibi acceleraret,

Nep. Att. 22, 2:

quod cogere se putat posse, rogare non sustinet,

Vell. 2, 81, 1:

adulterium,

Ov. A. A. 2, 367.—

Sometimes as philos. t. t. = colligo, concludo, to infer, conclude:

ex quibus id quod volumus efficitur et cogitur,

Cic. Leg. 2, 13, 33; so id. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 7, 4.—

Cogere agmen, to be the last (the figure borrowed from milit. lang.;

v. I. B. 3. supra): ut nec duces simus, nec agmen cogamus,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 1; cf.:

sic ordinandus est dies omnis, ut tamquam cogat agmen,

Sen. Ep. 12, 8.—Hence,

coactum, i, P. a. subst., a thick, fulled covering, a mattress (cf. coactilis), Caes. B. C. 3, 44 fin. —

coactus, a, um, P. a., forced, constrained, unnatural:

quod absurdum et nimis coactum foret,

Gell. 1, 4, 7; cf. id. 16, 14, 3:

lacrimae,

Verg. A. 2, 196; Ov. M. 6, 628.—

coactē, adv. (prop. in a contracted manner; hence), [p. 363]

Shortly, quickly:

coactius quid factum et festinantius,

Gell. 10, 11, 8.—

Accurately, strictly:

coactius interpretari verbum,

Gell. 19, 2.—

In a forced, constrained manner, Tert. Bapt. 12; id. Anim. 42 al.

pango, nxi, nctum, and pēgi or pĕpĭgi, pactum (v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 474 sq.), 3, v. a. [root pac-; Sanscr. pāca, band, fetter; Gr. pêgnumi, fix; pachnê, frost; passalos, peg, etc.; cf.: pagus, pagina, paciscor; old form paco, pago; cf.: rem ubipacunt, XII.Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20; v. Prisc. 894 P.], to fasten, make fast, fix; to drive in, sink in (syn.: figo, configo).

Lit.: pangere, figere;

unde plantae pangi dicuntur,

Fest. p. 213 Müll.:

clavum,

Liv. 7, 3; v. clavus: tonsillam pegi laevo in litore, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v tonsilla, p. 356 Müll.; Col. poët. 10, 252; Pall. 3, 9, 7.—

Transf.

To set, plant any thing:

ramulum,

Suet. Galb. 1:

vicena millia malleolorum,

Col. 3, 12, 3: lactucam id. 11, 3, 26:

taleam olearum,

id. 11, 2, 42;

hence, transf.: filios,

to beget children, Tert. Apol. 9 fin. —

To set or plant any thing with any thing:

ipse seram vites pangamque ex ordine colles,

Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 15:

vitiaria malleolis,

Col. 11, 2, 18.—

Trop.

Versus carmina or facta (like componere), to make, compose, write, record: hic vostrum panxit maxuma facta patrum, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34 (Epigr. v. 2 Vahl. p. 162;

but the verse: horrida Romuleum certamina pango duellum, is spurious): carmina,

Lucr. 4, 8:

versus de rerum naturā,

id. 1, 25:

aliquid Sophocleum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3: anekdota, id. Att. 2, 6, 2:

poëmata,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 40:

chartas,

Mart. 11, 3, 7:

pangendi facultas,

Tac. A. 14, 16; Val. Max. 2, 1, 10:

de pangendo nihil fieri potest,

Cic. Att. 2, 14, 2.—

In gen., to make:

neque prima per artem temptamenta tui pepigi,

Verg. A. 8, 142.—

To fix, settle, determine, agree upon, agree, covenant, conclude, stipulate, contract (class., but only in the perf. forms; for the pres. and fut. pacisci was used; v. Quint. 1, 6, 10 sq.: paciscor facit et pepigi et pactus sum, Serv. ad. Verg. A. 8, 144; cf.:

paciscor, stipulor, despondeo): ducentis Philippis rem pepigi,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 38:

pactam rem habeto,

id. Poen. 5, 3, 38:

terminos, quos Socrates pepigerit (al. pegerit),

Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 56:

fines,

id. Pis. 16, 37.—With ne:

si quis pepigerit ne illo (medicamento) usquam postea uteretur,

Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92; so Tac. A. 13, 14:

pacem nobiscum pepigistis, ut, etc.,

Liv. 9, 11:

inducias pepigisse,

id. 27, 30:

non fuit armillas tanti pepigisse Sabinas,

Ov. Am. 1, 10, 49:

resumere libertatem occultis insidiis pepigerant,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

cui pretium pepigerat,

id. ib. 14, 42. —Freq. of a marriage contract, to promise, engage, pledge, etc.: habeon' pactam (Sororem)? Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 99; 5, 2, 59:

quod pepigere viri, pepigerunt ante parentes,

Cat. 62, 28:

te peto quam lecto pepigit Venus aurea nostro,

Ov. H. 16, 35: haec mihi se pepigit;

pater hanc tibi,

id. ib. 20, 157.