I tel you and doe you wel vnderstand, that he, &c. Proscribere & edicere diem. Cic. To set vp and proclaime or publish the day. Comitia edicere ad Calendas Februarias. Cic. To publish or proclaime the election to be, &c. Concilium edicere. Gel. To command a counsaile to bee assembled. Iustitium edicere. Cic. To publish or make knowne that a vacation shal be. Legem edicere. Cic. Edicere Senatum. Suet. To ordaine a Senate to bee holden. Edixit socijs conuentum Tarraconem. Liu. He ordeined that his fellowes should assemble at Tarracon. Edicere diem ad conueniendum in Herruriã Li. To publishe or proclaime a day to assemble. Edicere militibus prædam. Liu. To proclaime that the soldiers shall haue the spoile. Edicere, pro prædicere, & præmonere. Cic. Est tibi edicendum quæ sis obseruaturus, &c. Cic. You must aduertise or tel before hande. Edici, Passiuum. Cic. Iustitium edici, dicit placere. Edictus. Particip. Proclaimed: denounced. vt. Edicto mercatu vÊ dere. Plin. To sel in open sale proclaimed by the trumpet.

To rehearse to one what he shall write: to speake. Grauiter ornatéque dictare. Cic. Dictare actionem, iurisconsultis dicitur, quod Terentio Dicam impingere vel dicere. Budæus, Vide DICA. Fugam lucis, & rædium pudor dictat. Quint. Dictare alicui orationem. Cic. To make one a bill or note of that he shall pronounce: to drawe out in writing what he shal say. Iudicium dictare. Paul. To bring processe againste. Rationem. Plautus. Vt, rationem te dictare intelligo. As I perceine that you do account or reckon. Sententiam dictare. Quin. Testamentum alicui. Plin. iun. To appoint or tell one howe he shall make his will. Vota dictar sacerdos. Val. Flac. Dicitur etiam, Ratio dictat. Reason so biddeth, or coÛselleth. Plin. Adijciemúsque quas ratio dictauerit. Ratio ita videtur dictare. Quint.

I. In gen. (very rare): rogarem te, ut diceres pro me tu idem, qui illis orationem dictavisses, Cic. Fin. 4, 22 fin.: mercemur servum qui dictet nomina, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 50; cf. Gell. 4, 1, 2.—Far more freq. and class.,

II. In partic.

A. To dictate to one for writing: quod non modo Tironi dictare, sed ne ipse quidem audere scribere, Cic. Att. 13, 9; 7, 13 b. fin.; 2, 23; Quint. 2, 4, 12; 10, 3, 18; Plin. Ep. 9, 36, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 49 et saep. So of the dictating of teachers (common for want of books): memini quae mihi parvo Orbilium dictare, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 71; cf. id. Sat. 1, 10, 75.—

2. Transf. As the practice of dictating came, in the course of time, to be very general (v. Gesner upon Quint. 10, 3, 18), dictare, since the Aug. per., acquired the signif. to express in written language, make, compose: elegidia, Pers. 1, 52; so, ducentos versus, Hor. S. 1, 4, 10: carmina (for which, shortly before and after, scribere), id. Ep. 2, 1, 110: codicillos, to draw up, make, Suet. Tib. 22; cf. testamentum, id. Ner. 32; hence also, summas, i. e. to dispose of by will, Dig. 32, 95; and in the pass.: non unus tibi rivalis dictabitur heres, appointed, designated, Juv. 6, 218; so, actionem, to draw up a declaration, Suet. Rhet. 2; and among jurists in gen., to bring an action, go to law, Dig. 15, 1, 50; also, judicium, ib. 9, 4, 22; 49, 9, 3 al.—

B. To prescribe, recommend, order, dictate (cf. 2. dico, no. I. B. 10; in this sense the primitive of dictator, although no ante-Aug. examples occur): sportulam, Quint. 11, 3, 131: dictataque jurant Sacramenta deis, Sil. 10, 448.—

2. Transf., of abstract subjects: ita videtur ratio dictare, Quint. 3, 4, 11; cf. Dig. 1, 2, 11: quibus sordet omne, quod natura dictavit, Quint. 8 prooem. 26; so with acc., id. 1, 3, 16; 2, 15, 6; Plin. 26, 4, 9, 20.—Hence, dictāta, ōrum, n. (acc. to no. II. A.).

A. Things dictated by the master to his scholars, i. e. lessons, exercises, rules, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4; id. Fin. 4, 4, 10; id. N. D. 1, 26; id. Tusc. 2, 11, 96; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 55; 1, 18, 13; Pers. 1, 29 al.—Also, in gen.,

B. Precepts, rules, e. g. for gladiators, Suet. Caes. 26; for mimes, Juv. 5, 122.