Ptefacio, patéfacis, pen. cor. pateféci, pen. prod. patefactum, patefácere. Liu.To open: to make open: to declare: to disclose: to discouer: to reueale.Lanuam patefacere. Cicero. Fores virga patefecit.Ouidius.Aulam vacuam parefecit. Horat. Ocellos lassos patefecit. Propert. Fenestram patefacere ad nequitiam.Terent.To make away: to open a gappe: to giue an occasion for mischiefe to be wrought.Illa actio mihi ianuam famæ patefecit.Plin. iun.That actiú was it that first brought me in renoume.Huic ego tantummodo aditum ad tuam cognitionem patefacio.Cic.I onely make the way for this man to be acquainted with you.Patefactum iter ad vrbem.Cic.A way made to come to the citie.Ni legatí patefecissent vna porta hostibus viam. Liuius. If the ambassodours had not suffered the enimies to enter at one gate.Viam patefacere illustrem atque latam auaritiæ. Ci. To giue a notable and great occasion of conetousnesse & extortion.Patefactus ad Consulatum ac triumphos locus nouis hominibus vidcbatur.Liu.A way or occasion seemed to be ginen or opened for late risen gentlemen to ascend to the honour of Consnlship and triumphes.Patefacere aures assentatoribus, quod & Dare aures dicimus.Cic.To giue eare to flaiterers. Patefacere.Terent.To declare: to disconer: to reueale.Oftendere & patefacere aliquid.Cic.Coniurationem patefacere.Cic.To vtter and make knowne the conspiracie.Vide quam tibi defensionem patefecerim.Cicer.Sce what a way I haue opened for thee to defend thy selfe.Odium suum patefacere in aliquem. Ci. To declare or shew.Patefacere & illustrare obscura.Cic.Verum patefacere & illustrare.Cic.Patefaciendum mihi esse arbitror.Cic.I thinke it my parte to declare it.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pătĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3 (scanned pătēfēcit, Lucr. 4, 320; and in pass. pătēfīet, id. 6, 1001), v. a. [pateo-facio], to make or lay open, to open, throw open (freq. and class.; syn.: pando, recludo, aperio). I.Lit.: iter, Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: patefacere et munire alicui aditum ad aliquid, id. Fam. 13, 78, 2: aures assentatoribus, id. Off. 1, 26, 91: portas, Liv. 2, 15: ordines, aciem, id. 28, 14: sulcum aratro, Ov. M. 3, 104: oculos, Plin. 11, 37, 55, 150: patefacta triumphis Janua. Prop. 1, 16, 1: iter per Alpes patefieri volebat, Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 27.—Poet.: postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem, i. e.
had exposed to view
,
made visible
, Ov. M. 9, 794.—Esp. (= a/noi/gein), to open the way, as a discoverer or pioneer; to be the first to find: vias, Caes. B G 7, 8: tellus in longas est patefacta vias, Tib. 1, 3, 36, cf.: patefactumque nostris legionibus Pontum, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 8, 21: loca, Nep. Hann. 3, 4.—II.Trop., to disclose, expose, detect, bring to light: si hoc celatur, in metu; sin patefit, in probro sum, Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 6: odium suum in aliquem, Cic. Att. 11, 13, 2: patefacere verum et illustrare, id. Lael. 26, 97: rem, id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: patefacere et proferre aliquid, id. Mil. 37, 103: veritas patefacta, id. Sull. 16, 45; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122: Lentulus patefactus indiciis,
convicted
, id. Cat 3, 6, 15: qui ea proferenda et patefacienda curavit, id. Fl. 2, 5: se aliquid patefacturam, id. Ac. 2, 14, 44.