Consiscation or seysing. hinc Commisso tollere, Vendicare. To seyse or forfeite. In commisium cadere, Incidere, & In causam commissi incidere: vsitatæ apud lurisconsultos lo quendi formulæ.

To commit into ones handes and charge: to enioyne: to ioyne or put togither: to offende or trespasse: to doe or beginne: also to deliuer: to compare: to bring to contention: to set togither: to consiscate: to seyfe for a forfeyture: to prouoke or stirre. Animos committere. Catul. To vnite and ioyne togither. Noctes duas committere. Ouid. To ioyne two nightes togither without day. Furta committere latebris. Stat. To keepe thefte priuy. Gemmas committere mero. Stat. Committere alicuius plagæ oras suturis. Cels. To sowe together the brimmes of the wounde. Suturæ capitis in vnguem commissæ. Vide IN. Committere semen solo. Col. To sow the ground. Sulcis committere semina. Virg. Idem. Stirpes committere ramis. Lucret. Vinum committere venis. Hor. To drinke wine that the force may pierse the veynes. Vitem tenui committere sulco. Virg. To plant in a smal forow. Committere se in conclaue. Cicer. To fling himselfe into his chamber. Tecto se committere. Ouid. Vrbi se committere. Cic. For suretie to enter into the citie. Committere. Ter. To commit to ones charge. Committere & commendare. Cic. Committere & communicare. Cic. Committere & credere bonorem alicui. Cic. To committe and put to one an honourable office. Alendum aliquem committere alicui. Ouid. To giue one to be nourished of him. Regendum aliquem committere alicui. Ouid. Arbitrio alicuius aliquid committere. Horat. To put to ones iudgement and discretion. Committere se in fidem, vel tutelam alicuius. Ter. To put himselfe into ones tuition. Commendare & committere se fidei alicuius. Ter. Idem. Ingenijs coniecturæque aliquorum aliquid commietere, Cic. To leaue to their wit and coniecture. Potestati alicuius Remp. & arma populi committere. Cic. Publicis præsidijs & armis se committere. Cic. Causam committere alicui. Cic. To commit the cause vnto. Consilia sua alicui committere. Cic. To tell one his intent and purpose: to credite his secretes to him. Delictum hominum fortunæ iudicio committere. Cicer. To commit or put to the iudgement of fortune. Epistolam alicui committere. Ci. To giue him a letter to beare: to put him in trust to deliuer, &c. Existimationem ac spem reliquæ vitæ alicui committere. Cic. Habenas committere. Sen. To commit the gouernment vnto. Incommoda sua legibus committere. Cic. To referre the punishments of his iniuries vnto magistrates and lawes. Literas alicui committere. Cic. To deliuer letters to cary. Magistratus aliquibus committere. Cic. To giue the offices to them. Rem magnam difficilémque alicui committere. Cic. Rem & vitam cõmittere alicui. Hor. To put into ones handes. Suffragium & inrisdictionem alicui committere. Sen. Vices suas alicui committere. Senec. To leaue the charge of his office to him. Caput committere tonsori. Hor. Committere collum suum alicui. Cic. Crus commisit laqueo volucris. Ouid. Put hit leg into. Literis committere aliquid. Cic. To put in writing. Amores suos committere tabellis. Ouid. To put in writing. Committere gnatam suam vxorem alicui. Ter. To giue his daughter to wife. Committere in discrimen. Liu. To put in daunger: to hazard. Committere se in præcipitem locum. Cic. To put himselfe in perill and daunger. Ausis magnis se committere. Claud. Fortunæ se committere. Cic. To put himselfe to the hazarde of fortune. Frigori committere. Cels. To put in the colde. Itineri se committere. Cic. To enter a iourney: to betake him to. Se hyerni & fluctibus committere. Cic. To venture the sea in the winter. Se labori committere. Cels. To labour or traueyle. Nauigationi se committere. Cic. To take the sea: to sayle. Nocti se committere. Ouid. To go by night: to aduenture by night. Committere se periculo mortis, aut seruitutis. Cic. Ponti sese committere Virg. To veter to go ouer the bridge. Ponto se committere. Cic. Pugnæ se committere. Ouid. To enter battell. Ratem committere pelago. Horat. Ratem committere vento. Ouid. Rixæ se committere. Ouid. To go where chiding is. Longius portibus committere se non audebant. Cæs. They durst not go out of the hauens. Soli se committere. Cels. To go into the sunne. Viæ se committere. Cic. To enter a iourney. Vnda se commisit ventis. Ouid. Committere. Sueton. To bring to contention: to set togither: to prouoke: to stirre. Committere. Suet. Non cessauit inter se omnes committere. He ceased not to set or stirre euery man one against an other. Fratres committere odijs. Claud. To make hatred betweene brothers: to set brothers by the eares togither. Committere bellum Liu. To mooue or beginne warre. Committere certamen. Liu. To begin the fight or combate. Iudicium committitur. Cic. Ludos committere. Plaut. Cic. To begin sightes or games. Committere manum alicui. Virg. To warre vpon. Prælium committere. Cæs. To beginue sight: to begin battayle. Gladiatores committere. To set matches of sworde players togither. Pugnam committere. Sil. Idem. Spectaculum committere. Liu IdÊ. Quod ludos cõmittere. Verba cõmittere cæcis modis. Sen. To propose an obscure question: to speake darkely. Committere aliquid. Cic. To offend or do amisse. Non timent qui nihil commiserunt. Cic. Committere contra legem. Cic. To offende against. Committere multa in deos & homines. Cic. Adulterium committere. Quint. To commit. Cædem committere. Ouid. To do a murder. Culpam committere. Cic. To offende. Delictum committere. Cæs. Idem. Facinus. Cæs. Flagitium. Cic. Fraudem. Hor. Iurgia. Plaut. To brawle or chide. Maleficium committere. Cic. Multam committere. Cic. Multas nefarias res committere. Cic. Rixam committere. Liu. To chide or scolde. Non committere vt, vel quamobrem. Cicer. Not so to do, that, &c. Not to giue cause, that. Non est meum committere vt, &c. Cic. It is not my part so to do, that, &c. Non placet nobis committere vt, &c. Cic. Alicuius consilio commissum esse vt, &c. Cic. By his counsayle cause was giuen, that, &c. Committere se in aciem. Liu. To enter into battayle. Committere se in conspectum populi. Cic. To shewe himselfe in the sight of the people. Committere se in Senatum. Cic. To come into the Senate. Committere de existimatione sua alicui. Cic. To put into ones handes a matter touching his estimation. Committere Cic. To confiscate. Qui illam hæreditatem veneri commissam esse dicerent. Confiscate or seysed.

I. Of two or more objects, to bring, join, combine into one whole; to join or put together, to connect, unite.

A. In gen. (rare; not in Cic.), constr. inter se, cum aliquā re, alicui, with in and acc., and with acc. only.

(a). Inter se: res in ordinem digestae atque inter se commissae, Quint. 7, prooem. 1: per nondum commissa inter se munimenta urbem intravit, Liv. 38, 4, 8; cf. thus with inter se: oras vulneris suturis, Cels. 7, 19: duo verba, Quint. 9, 4, 33: easdem litteras, id. ib.: duo comparativa, id. 9, 3, 19.—

(b). With cum: costae committuntur cum osse pectoris, Cels. 8, 1.—

(g). With dat.: viam a Placentiā ut Flaminiae committeret, Liv. 39, 2, 10: quā naris fronti committitur, is joined to, Ov. M. 12, 315: quā vir equo commissus erat, id. ib. 12, 478 (of a Centaur); cf. of Scylla: delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum, Verg. A. 3, 428: commissa dextera dextrae, Ov. H. 2, 31: medulla spinae commissa cerebro, Cels. 8, 1: moles, quae urbem continenti committeret, Curt. 4, 2, 16; Flor. 1, 4, 2 Duker.—

(d). With in and acc.: commissa in unum crura, Ov. M. 4, 580: committuntur suturae in unguem, Cels. 8, 1.—(e) With acc. only: barbaricam pestem navibus obtulit, commissam infabre, Pac. ap. Non. p. 40, 31 (Trag. Rel. v. 271 Rib.): commissis operibus, Liv. 38, 7, 10: fidibusque mei commissa mariti moenia, Ov. M. 6, 178: (terra) maria committeret, Curt. 3, 1, 13; 7, 7, 14: noctes duas, Ov. Am. 1, 13, 46; cf.: nocte commissā. Sen. Herc. Oet. 1698: commissa corpore toto, Ov. M. 4, 369; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 248, 25: cervix committitur primo artu, Val. Fl. 4, 310: domus plumbo commissa, patched, Juv. 14, 310.—

B. In partic., to set or bring men or animals together in a contest or fight, as competitors, etc., to set together, set on (freq. in Suet.; elsewhere rare): pugiles Latinos cum Graecis, Suet. Aug. 45: quingenis peditibus, elephantis vicenis, tricenis equitibus hinc et inde commissis, id. Caes. 39; id. Claud. 34: camelorum quadrigas, id. Ner. 11; Luc. 1, 97: victores committe, Mart. 8, 43, 3; cf. id. Spect. 28, 1: licet Aenean Rutulumque ferocem Committas, i.e. you describe their contest in your poem, you bring them in contact with each other, Juv. 1, 162: eunucho Bromium committere noli, id. 6, 378: inter se omnes, Suet. Calig. 56: aequales inter se, id. Gram. 17.—

b. Trop., to bring together for comparison, to compare, put together, match: committit vates et comparat, inde Maronem, Atque aliā parte in trutinā suspendit Homerum, Juv. 6, 436; cf. Prop. 2, 3, 21; Mart. 7, 24, 1.—

2. Transf., of a battle, war: proelium, certamen, bellum, etc.

a. To arrange a battle or contest, to enter upon, engage in, begin, join, commence, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77: proelii committendi signum dare, Caes. B. G. 2, 21: cum proelium commissum audissent, id. ib. 7, 62: commisso ab equitibus proelio, id. B. C. 1, 40: in aciem exercitum eduxit proeliumque commisit, Nep. Eum. 3 fin.; id. Hann. 11, 3; id. Milt. 6, 3; Just. 2, 12, 7; 15, 4, 22; 22, 6, 6: postquam eo ventum est, ut a ferentariis proelium committi posset, Sall. C. 60, 2: commisso proelio, diutius nostrorum militum impetum hostes ferre non potuerunt, Caes. B. G. 4, 35; id. B. C. 1, 13; 2, 6 Kraner ad loc.: Caesar cohortatus suos proelium commisit, id. ib. 1, 25: utrum proelium committi ex usu esset, necne, id. ib. 1, 50; 1, 52; 2, 19; Nep. Milt. 5, 3: pridie quam Siciliensem pugnam classe committeret, Suet. Aug. 96: avidus committere pugnam, Sil. 8, 619: pugnas, Stat. Th. 6, 143: rixae committendae causā, Liv. 5, 25, 2: cum vates monere eum (regem) coepit, ne committeret, aut certe differret obsidionem, Curt. 9, 4, 27.—Of a drinking contest for a wager: a summo septenis cyathis committe hos ludos, Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 19: nondum commisso spectaculo, Liv. 2, 36, 1: musicum agona, Suet. Ner. 23: aciem, Flor. 4, 2, 46: commissum (bellum) ac profligatum conficere, Liv. 21, 40, 11; 8, 25, 5; 31, 28, 1 al.; cf.: si quis trium temporum momenta consideret, primo commissum bellum, profligatum secundo, tertio vero confectum est, Flor. 2, 15, 2: committere Martem, Sil. 13, 155: quo die ludi committebantur, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 6: ludos dedicationis, Suet. Claud. 21: ludos, Verg. A. 5, 113.—

b. In gen., to maintain a contest, etc., to fight a battle, to hold, celebrate games, etc. (rare): illam pugnam navalem... mediocri certamine commissam arbitraris? Cic. Mur. 15, 33: levia inde proelia per quatriduum commissa, Liv. 34, 37, 7: commisso modico certamine, id. 23, 44, 5.—

(b). Absol. (post-Aug. and rare): contra quem Sulla iterum commisit, Eutr. 5, 6; 9, 24; Dig. 9, 1, 1: priusquam committeretur, before the contest began, Suet. Vesp. 5.—

3. In gen.: committere aliquid, to begin any course of action, to undertake, carry on, hold (rare): tribuni sanguine commissa proscriptio, Vell. 2, 64 fin.: judicium inter sicarios committitur, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 11. —In part. perf.: egregie ad ultimum in audacter commisso perseveravit, Liv. 44, 4, 11; cf. id. ib. 8; 44, 6, 14.—

4. In partic., to practise or perpetrate wrong, do injustice; to commit a crime (very freq. and class.).

(a). With acc.: ut neque timeant, qui nihil commiserint, et poenam semper ante oculos versari putent, qui peccaverint, Cic. Mil. 23, 61; cf. Quint. 7, 2, 30: commississe cavet quod mox mutare laboret, Hor. A. P. 168: ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti, Verri crimini daturus sum, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35: quantum flagitii, id. Brut. 61, 219: tantum facinus, id. Rosc. Am. 23, 65: virilis audaciae facinora, Sall. C. 25, 1: majus delictum, Caes. B. G. 7, 4: nil nefandum, Ov. M. 9, 626: nefarias res, Cic. Phil. 6, 1, 2: scelus, id. Sull. 2, 6; Dig. 48, 9, 7: adulterium, Quint. 7, 2, 11; 7, 3, 1: incestum cum filio, id. 5, 10, 19: parricidium, id. 7, 2, 2: caedem, id. 7, 4, 43; 10, 1, 12; 5, 12, 3: sacrilegium, id. 7, 2, 18: fraudem, Hor. C. 1, 28, 31.—Aliquid adversus, in, erga: committere multa et in deos et in homines impie nefarieque, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 2, 6; cf.: in te, Verg. A. 1, 231: aliquid adversus populum Romanum, Liv. 42, 38, 3: aliquid erga te, Cic. Att. 3, 20, 3.—

(b). Committere contra legem, in legem, lege, to offend, sin, commit an offence: quasi committeret contra legem, Cic. Brut. 12, 48: in legem Juliam de adulteriis, Dig. 48, 5, 39; 48, 10, 13: adversus testamentum, ib. 34, 3, 8, 2: ne lege censoriā committant, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16: lege de sicariis, Quint. 7, 1, 9. —

(g). Absol.: hoc si in posterum edixisses, minus esset nefarium... nemo enim committeret, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 43, 110.—

(d). With ut, to be guilty or be in fault, so that, to give occasion or cause, that, to act so as that: id me commissurum ut patiar fieri, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 78: non committet hodie iterum ut vapulet, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 5: ego nolo quemquam civem committere, ut morte multandus sit: tu, etiam si commiserit, conservandum putas, Cic. Phil. 8, 5, 15: committere ut accusator nominere, id. Off. 2, 14, 50; so Liv. 25, 6, 17: non committam, ut tibi ipse insanire videar, Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 3; 3, 7, 3; id. Att. 1, 6, 1; 1, 20, 3; id. de Or. 2, 57, 233; id. Off. 3, 2, 6; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1, Quint. 1, 10, 30; 5, 13, 27; Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37.—More rare in a like sense, (e) With cur or quare: Caedicius negare se commissurum, cur sibi quisquam imperium finiret, Liv. 5, 46, 6: neque commissum a se, quare timeret, Caes. B. G. 1, 14.—(z) With inf.: non committunt scamna facere, Col. 2, 4, 3: infelix committit saepe repelli, Ov. M. 9, 632.—

b. Poenam, multam, etc., jurid. t. t., to bring punishment upon one's self by an error or fault, to incur, make one's self liable to it: poenam, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, 30; cf. Quint. 7, 4, 20; and: committere in poenam edicti, Dig. 2, 2, 4: ut illam multam non commiserit, Cic. Clu. 37, 103; Dig. 35, 1, 6 pr.—

(b). Committi, with a definite object, to be forfeited or confiscated, as a penalty: hereditas Veneri Erycinae commissa, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, 27; 2, 2, 14, 36; so, commissae hypothecae, id. Fam. 13, 56, 2: commissa tibi fiducia, id. Fl. 21, 51: merces, Dig. 39, 4, 11, 2: mancipium, ib. 39, 14, 6: praedia in publicum, ib. 3, 5, 12: hanc devotionem capitis esse commissam, incurred, Cic. Dom. 57, 145.—

c. Also (mostly in jurid. Lat.) of laws, judicial regulations, promises, etc., that become binding in consequence of the fulfilment of a condition as the commission of a crime, etc.: in civitatem obligatam sponsione commissa iratis omnibus diis, a promise the condition of which has been fulfilled, Liv. 9, 11, 10 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf.: hanc ego devotionem capitis mei... convictam esse et commissam putabo, Cic. Dom. 57, 145: si alius committat edictum, transgresses, incurs its penalty, makes himself liable to, Dig. 37, 4, 3, 11; cf.: commisso edicto ab alio filio, ib. lex 8, 4: commisso per alium edicto, ib. lex 10, 1 al.: statim atque commissa lex est, ib. 18, 3, 4, 2: committetur stipulatio, ib. 24, 3, 56.

II. To place a thing somewhere for preservation, protection, care, etc.; to give, intrust, commit to, to give up or resign to, to trust (syn.: commendo, trado, credo; very freq. and class.); constr. with aliquid (aliquem) alicui, in aliquid, or absol.

(a). Aliquid (aliquem, se) alicui: honor non solum datus sed etiam creditus ac commissus, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, 35: nec illi (Catoni) committendum illud negotium, sed inponendum putaverunt, id. Sest. 28, 60: qui capita vestra non dubitatis credere, cui calceandos nemo commisit pedes? Phaedr. 1, 14, 16: ego me tuae commendo et committo fidei, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 47 (cf. id. And. 1, 5, 61): ne quid committam tibi, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 21; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 15; id. And. 3, 5, 3; cf.: his salutem nostram, his fortunas, his liberos rectissime committi arbitramur, Cic. Off. 2, 9, 33; id. Att. 1, 13, 1; cf. id. ib. 4: tibi rem magnam, id. Fam. 13, 5, 1; id. Mil. 25, 68: quia commissi sunt eis magistratus, id. Planc. 25, 61: summum imperium potestatemque omnium rerum alicui, Nep. Lys. 1 fin.: domino rem omnem, Hor. S. 2, 7, 67: caput tonsori, id. A. P. 301: ratem pelago, id. C. 1, 3, 11: sulcis semina (corresp. with spem credere terrae), Verg. G. 1, 223; cf.: committere semen sitienti solo, Col. 2, 8, 4: ulcus frigori, Cels. 6, 18, n. 2: aliquid litteris, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 8; so, verba tabellis, Ov. M. 9, 587: vivunt commissi calores Aeoliae fidibus puellae, Hor. C. 4, 9, 11 al.: committere se populo, senatui, publicis praesidiis et armis (corresp. with se tradere), Cic. Mil. 23, 61; so, se urbi, id. Att. 15, 11, 1: se theatro populoque Romano, id. Sest. 54, 116: se proelio, Liv. 4, 59, 2: se pugnae, id. 5, 32, 4: se publico, to venture into the streets, Suet. Ner. 26: se neque navigationi, neque viae, Cic. Fam. 16, 8, 1; cf. id. Phil. 12, 10, 25; id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 31: se timidius fortunae, id. Att. 9, 6, 4: civilibus fluctibus, Nep. Att. 6, 1 al.—Prov.: ovem lupo (Gr. katalei/pein o)/i+n e)n lu/koisi), Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 16.—

(b). Aliquid (aliquem, se) in aliquid (so esp. freq. in Liv.): aliquid in alicujus fidem committere, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 34; cf. Liv. 30, 14, 4: se in id conclave, Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64: se in conspectum populi Romani, id. Verr. 2, 4, 11, 26; cf. Pompei. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, C, 2: se in senatum, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2; id. Ac. 2, 21, 68: summae fuisse dementiae dubiā spe impulsum certum in periculum se committere, id. Inv. 2, 8, 27: rem in casum ancipitis eventus, Liv. 4, 27, 6; cf.: duos filios in aleam ejus casus, id. 40, 21, 6: rem in aciem, id. 3, 2, 12; cf.: se in aciem, id. 7, 26, 11; 23, 11, 10; rempublicam in discrimen, id. 8, 32, 4; cf.: rerum summam in discrimen, id. 33, 7, 10. —

(g). Simply alicui, or entirely absol.: sanan' es, Quae isti committas? in trusting to him, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 55: ei commisi et credidi, Ter, Heaut. 5, 2, 13: haec cum scirem et cogitarem, commisi tamen, judices, Heio, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 7, 16: universo populo neque ipse committit neque illi horum consiliorum auctores committi recte putant posse, id. Agr. 2, 8, 20: venti, quibus necessario committendum existimabat, Caes. B. C. 3, 25: sed quoniam non es veritus concredere nobis, accipe commissae munera laetitiae, intrusted, Prop. 1, 10, 12: instant enim (adversarii) et saepe discrimen omne committunt, quod deesse nobis putant, often hazard the most important advantage, Quint. 6, 4, 17: cum senatus ei commiserit, ut videret, ne quid res publica detrimenti caperet, Cic. Mil. 26, 70.—With de: iste negat se de existimatione suā cuiquam nisi suis commissurum, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 60, 137. —Hence, P. a. as subst.: commissum, i, n.

A. (Acc. to I. 3.) An undertaking, enterprise: nec aliud restabat quam audacter commissum corrigere, Liv. 44, 4, 8: supererat nihil aliud in temere commisso, quam, etc., id. 44, 6, 14.—

B. (Acc. to I. 4.) A transgression, offence, fault, crime: sacrum, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: nisi aut quid commissi aut est causa jurgi, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 21: ecquod hujus factum aut commissum non dicam audacius, sed quod, etc., Cic. Sull. 26, 72; cf. turpe, Hor. C. 3, 27, 39: commissi praemia, Ov. F. 4, 590.—In plur.: post mihi non simili poenā commissa luetis, offences, Verg. A. 1, 136; so, fateri, Stat. S. 5, 5, 5: improba, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 304.—

2. Jurid. Lat., an incurring of fines, a confiscation or confiscated property, Suet. Calig. 41: in commissum cadere, Dig. 39, 4, 16: causa commissi, ib. 39, 4, 16 al.; 19, 2, 61 fin.: aliquid pro commisso tenetur, Quint. Decl. 341.—

C. (Acc. to II.) That which is intrusted, a secret, trust: enuntiare commissa, Cic. Tusc. 2, 13, 31: commissa celare, Nep. Epam. 3, 2; cf. Juv. 9, 93: commissa tacere, Hor. S. 1, 4, 84: prodere, id. ib. 1, 3, 95: retinent commissa fideliter aures, id. Ep. 1, 18, 70: commissum teges (corresp. with arcanum scrutaberis), id. ib. 1, 18, 38; cf. id. A. P. 200.