Deprecor, pe. cor. deprecaris, deprecatus sum, deprecâri. Catu. To beseech: to intreate: to pray earnestly. To refuse and desire the contrary. To put away by prayet or intreaty: to haue in detestation: to resist.Te lachrymæ fratris deprecantur.Cic.Intreate thee.Authoritas atque virtos alicuius deprecatur. Ci. Deprecari aliquid ab altero.Cic.To desire.Deprecabitur vobis, ne patiamini talem imperatorem. Ci. Deprecatum venit ad me vt sibi iguoscerem.Cic.To intreat.Si quid deliquero, nullæ sunt imagines quæ me vobis deprecentur.Cic.I haue no noblenes of ancestours that can make intreaty for me to you.Deprecari alicui ne vapulet.Plaut.To intreate for one that he be not beaten.In hoc te deprecor, ne, &c. Cælius Ciceroni. I request of you in this point.Deprecari pro reditu alicuius.Cic.To sue for.Pacem deprecari.Cic.To sue for peace.Deprecari sibi exilium & fugam.Cic.To sue that men wyl be content with his banishment, and secke no further punishment, or to make request that he be not bauished.Vitam alicuius deprecari ab aliquo.Cic.To sue to a man to saue ones life. Precari & Deprecati, contratia.Ouid.To wishe for, & wishe away.Anteacta deprecari. Tac. To request or sue that he be not punished for those things that were past.Calamitatem ab sese deprecari. Ci. Is vllam ab sese calamitatem poterit deprecari? May he intreat that no yl bee doneor wrought vnto him.Deprecari auaritiæ crimina laudibus frugalitatis. Cice. To request that one be excused of niggardship, or not count a niggard, because his temperaunce in liuing semeth worthy commendation.Claudij inuidiam, Gratchi charítas deprecabatur.Cicer.The loue of Gracchus did put away the hatred of Claudius: or Graechus was so wel beloued, that for his sake, the faults of Claudius were hid and exrused.Non ius, sed iniuriam deprecor.Liu.I require not that you should omit right, but onely that you wil not doe me iniury.Maleuolentiam deprecari.Cicer.To request that he may not seeme to beare malice to one.Munus aliquod. Qui. To refuse or to desire that be may not be put to an office.Deprecari odium summæ improbitatis excusatione summæ stultitiæ.Cic.To put away the hatred of great wickednes with the pretence and colour of ertreame foolishnes: or to trcuse himselfe of some great lewdnes and wickedues cõmitted vnder the colour and precente that it was done by extreame folly.Detestari ac deprecari querimoniam alterius se.Cic. Mortem deprecari.Ouid.To desire pardon of deathDeprecari periculum.Cic.To wish or desire that he fall not into daunger, or to request that he be not put in daunger.Refugere periculum aut deprecari. Asinius Cicer.To refuse to put himselfe in daunger and desire he may not.Nullam deprecor pœnam.Liu.I refuse no paine.Deprecari sanguinem & mortem innocentissimi ciuis.Cic.To sue and desire that they wil saue the life of a most innocent man.Deprecari supplicium & recusare.Cic.
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dē-prĕcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a.I.To avert, ward off (from one's self or others) by earnest prayer; to deprecate; also to pray, to intercede for the averting of any evil, or to obtain pardon for any transgression (cf. Gell. 6, 16, 3). A. In gen. (for syn. cf.: averto, averrunco, avoco, revoco —freq. and class.), constr. with the acc. (rei v. personae), the inf., the acc. and inf., ne, quominus, quin, and absol.(a). With acc. rei: ullam ab sese calamitatem, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 60 fin.; cf.: ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer, id. Cat. 1, 11: quibus servitutem mea miseria deprecor? Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 9; cf.: ego meae cum vitae parcam, letum inimico deprecer?id. ib.10: qui nullum genus supplicii deprecatus est neque recusavit, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: mortem, Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 6; cf.: non jam mortem neque aerumnas, tantummodo inimici imperium et cruciatus corporis deprecor, Sall. J. 24, 10: periculum, Caes. B. C. 1, 5; Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 3 (with refugere), Liv. 3, 58: poenam, id. 40, 15: ignominiam, id. 27, 20 fin.: iram senatus, id. 39, 35: praecipiendi munus, Quint. 2, 12, 12 et saep.—Of abstract subjects: Claudii invidiam Gracchi caritas deprecabatur,
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, Cic. Rep. 6, 2 (ap. Gell. 6, 16, 11; and Non. 290, 17).—(b). With acc. pers., usually in the sense of praying: quem deprecarentur, cum omnes essent sordidati?Cic. Sest. 12: in hoc te deprecor, ne, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1: Patres, ne festinarent decernere, etc., Liv. 34, 59: senatum litteris deprecatus est, ne, etc., Suet. Caes. 29: dispensatorem deprecati sumus, ut, etc., Petr. 30, 9: deos mala (opp. bona rogare), Sen. Q. N. 2, 33; cf.: hoc superos, hoc te quoque deprecor, Val. Fl. 8, 53: numina versu, Petr. 133, 2: Dominum, Vulg. Esth. 14, 3 et saep.—Less freq. in the sense of averting: lecto te solum, lecto te deprecor uno, Prop. 2, 34, 17 (3, 32, 7 M.).—(g). With inf.: umbram accipere, Stat. Th. 8, 116; Luc. 9, 213.— (d). With acc. and inf., to plead in excuse: postquam errasse regem et Jugurthae scelere lapsum deprecati sunt, Sall. J. 104, 4.—(e) With ne: primum deprecor, ne me, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 1: unum petere ac deprecari ... ne se armis despoliaret, Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4: spem ne nostram fieri patiare caducam, deprecor, Ov. H. 15 (16), 170; cf. no., b; so, opp. to postulo ut, Liv. 40, 15, 8.—And with the dat. of the person for whom one entreats: deprecari alicui ne vapulet, Plaut. As. grex 5.—(z) With quominus: neque illum se deprecari, quominus pergat, Liv. 3, 9, 10 (but non precarere is the true reading in Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 79 fin.).—So very rarely (h) with quin: quin gravedinem ipsi ferat frigus, Cat. 44, 18.—(q) With ut (rarely): deprecatus esse dicitur, ut se tertium in amicitiam reciperent, Lact. 5, 17, 23; cf. supra, Petr. 30, 9.—(i) Absol.: pro amico, pro republica deprecari, Cic. Sest. 12 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 21; id. Vit. 14: arma deponat, roget, deprecetur, Cic. Phil. 5, 1, 3; id. Or. 40, 138; Caes. B. G. 4, 7, 3; Quint. 5, 13, 2; Verg. A. 12, 931 al.— B. In relig. lang., to imprecate: diras devotiones in eum deprecata, Ap. M. 9, p. 227.—2.Transf.: quasi non totidem mox deprecor illi Assidue,
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, Cat. 92, 3 (dictum est quasi detestor vel exsecror vel depello vel abominor, Gell. 6, 16, 5).—II.To pray for, intercede in behalf of (that which is in danger): vitam alicujus ab aliquo, Cic. Sull. 26; cf. vitam sibi, Auct. B. Afr. 89, 3; paucos dies exsolvendo donativo deprecatum, Tac. H. 1, 41: quos senatus non ad pacem deprecandam, sed ad denuntiandum bellum miserat, Cic. Fam. 12, 24. Also with personal objects: a vobis deprecor custodem salutis meae, Cic. Planc. 42, 102: nullae sunt imagines, quae me a vobis deprecentur, id. Agr. 2, 36 fin.: te assiduae lacrimae C. Marcelli deprecantur, id. Fam. 4, 7 fin.—Sometimes, by zeugma, deprecor is used in both senses, I. and II., with different objects: non mortem sed dilationem mortis deprecantur, Justin. 11, 9, 14; Gronov. ad loc.!*? dēprĕcātus, in pass. signif.: deprecatum bellum, Just. 8, 5, 4: deprecato summo numine, Ap. M. 11, p. 270.