Expeto, expetis, pen. cor. expetíui, expetîtum, pen. prod. expétete. Ci. To desire much: to couet: to happen: to indeuour to gette.Expetere & Abijcere, contraria.Cic.Expetere & fugere, contraria.Cic.Oprare & expetere.Cic.Expetere & postulare.Cic.Vitare & Expetere, contraria.Cic.Abs te hoc bona venia expeto. Ter. With your good leaue, I desire this earnestly at your hand.Deposcere & expetere aliquem imperatorem ad bellum. Ci. To demaunde and reguire.A natura expetere aliquid.Cic.To desire of.Vehementer aliquid expetere.Cic.Summa cupiditate expetere aliquid. Cicero. To desire verie earnestly, or with great affection.Maximè aliquem expetere.Cic.Expetere aliquem aliquid Plaut.To desire a thing of one.Expetam alterum præ te.Plaut.Expetere ab aliquo auxilium.Cic.To desire helpe of one.Expetere ius alicuius, id est curare vt ius illi fiat. Plautus. To indeuour to get or procure ones right.Pace multis hostijs. Plautus. To feeke to please with manye sacrisices.Pœnas ab aliquo. Cicero. To seeke to punish: or to cause to make satisfaction.Preces deo, pro precari deum.Plaut.Saprentiam.Cic.Supplicium.Liu.To seeke earnesily to punish.Vitam alicuius.Cic.Natura voluptatem expeti. Cice. That by nature pleasure is desired. In seruitute expetunt multa iniqua. Plautus. In bondage many vnreasonable things happen. Audire expeto. Seneca. I desire to heare it.Cognoscere expero.Ouid. Expetitur vnguentis radix aspalathi. Pli. It is very good, or much sought for in making ointments.
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ex-pĕto, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act.A.To long for, seek after, aspire to, desire, covet, wish a thing (freq. and class.; syn.: appeto, affecto, cupio, concupisco, aveo, gestio, volo, opto, desidero, requiro). (a). With acc.: assunt, me expetunt, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 49, ed. Vahl.): nihil hominem, nisi quod honestum sit, aut admirari aut optare aut expetere debere, Cic. Off. 1, 20, 66: unum ab omnibus ad id bellum imperatorem deposci atque expeti, id. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5: Italia ab hoc auxilium absente expetivit, id. ib. 11, 30; cf.: Apollo unde sibi populi et reges consilium expetunt, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 1, 45, 199 (Trag. v. 186, ed. Vahl.): nunc a Flacco Lentuli poenae per vos expetuntur,
are demanded
, Cic. Fl. 38, 95: poenas ab aliquo, id. Pis. 7, 16; Liv. 1, 23, 4; cf.: jus ab invitis, id. 3, 40, 4: facinora ab aliquo, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 25: Plautinas fabulas, id. Cas. prol. 12: pecunia tantopere expetitur, Cic. de Or. 2, 40, 172; cf.: expetuntur divitiae ad usus vitae necessarios, id. Off. 1, 8, 25: mortem pro vita civium, id. Tusc. 1, 48, 116: ea vita expetitur, quae sit animi corporisque expleta virtutibus, id. Fin. 5, 13, 37: in qua (societate) omnia insunt, quae putant homines expetenda, honestas, gloria, etc., id. Lael. 22, 84: non ficto crimine insectari, non expetere vitam, non capitis arcessere,
to attempt one's life
, id. Deiot. 11, 30: stulta sibi consilia,
to seek out
,
contrive
, Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 4.—Of an inanimate subject: mare medium terrae locum expetens, striving or tending towards, Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116.—(b). With an object-clause (mostly poet.): quem quisque odit, periisse expetit, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23 (Trag. v. 403, ed. Vahl.); cf.: audire expetis?Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 25: aliquid facere, id. Trin. 3, 2, 48: periisse expetunt, Liv. 40, 10, 5: dum nostram gloriam tua virtute augeri expeto, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2: di me etsi perdunt, tamen esse adjutam expetunt, Pac. ap. Non. 104, 7: videre expeto te, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 20; cf.: hoc prius scire expeto, quid perdideris, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 17; id. Hec. 5, 1, 1; Hor. Epod. 11, 3; Ov. M. 7, 476; 9, 550 al.: quod et scire expeto et quaerere pudet, Curt. 4, 10, 32; 9, 3, 8; Plin. praef. 14.—(g). With ut and subj.: fatebor et fuisse me et Sejano amicum et ut essem expetisse, Tac. A. 6, 8.—(d).Absol.: ne legaretur A. Gabinius Cn. Pompeio expetenti ac postulanti,
requesting
, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57.— B.To reach, attain to any thing; with respect to time, to outlast: malo si quid bene facias, id beneficium interit: Bono si quid male facias, aetatem expetit, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 23.— Hence, expĕtendus, a, um, P. a., desirable, excellent: forma expetunda mulier, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 60.II.Intr. (perh. only ante-class.; cf. Liv. 1, 22, 7 Weisenb. ad loc.). A.To light upon, fall upon, befall a person. 1. With in aliquem: delictum suum suamque culpam expetere in mortalem, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 33: illius ira et maledicta in hanc, id. ib. 3, 2, 15: omnes clades hujus belli in eum, Tullus ap. Liv. 1, 22, 7: quojus ego hodie in tergum faxo ista expetant mendacia, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 42.—2. With alicui: mea sit culpa, si id Alcumenae innocenti expetat, Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 12.—B.Absol., to fall out, happen, occur, result: nequiter paene expetivit prima parasitatio, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 22 Lamb. (al. expedivit): in servitute expetunt multa iniqua,
befall
, id. ib. 1, 1, 20; so, eadem in vigilanti expetunt, id. Mil. 2, 4, 40 (not vigilantes, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).