Erogo, erogas, pe. cor. erogáre. Plin. iu. To employ and bestow on a thing: to lay out vpon: to distribute, deliuer, and giue to them that aske.Erogare pecunias ex ærario. Cice. To deliuer mouey out of the common treasurie.Pecunias alicui erogare in rem aliquam. Ci. To deliuer money to one to bestow vpon a thing.Erogare pecuniam in classem.Cic.Vnde in eos sumptus pecunia erogaretur.Liu.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-rŏgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I. Orig., a pub. law t. t., to expend, pay out money from the public treasury, after asking the consent of the people: pecunias ex aerario, Cic. Vat. 12; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 71; 2, 5, 19; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, 14; Liv. 22, 23; 33, 47 al.; cf.: pecuniam in classem, Cic. Fl. 13: in aes alienum, id. Att. 6, 1, 21: unde in eos sumptus, pecunia erogaretur, Liv. 1, 20; Vulg. Marc. 5, 26.—B.Transf. beyond the pub. law sphere, to pay, pay out, disburse, expend (cf.: pendo, expendo, perpendo, pondero, solvo, luo): Tironem Curio commendes, ut ei, si quid opus erit, in sumptum eroget, Cic. Att. 8, 5 fin.: aliquid in pretium servi, Dig. 25, 2, 36 fin.: bona sua in fraudem futurae actionis,
to squander
, ib. 17, 2, 68: grandem pecuniam in Tigellinum,
to bequeath
, Tac. A. 16, 17; cf.: in Tiridatem erogavit, Suet. Ner. 30: odores, unguenta ad funus, Dig. 15, 3, 7: nihil de bonis, ib. 24, 1, 5 fin.; cf.: aliquid ex bonis, ib. 26, 7, 12: aliquid pro introitu, ib. 32, 1, 102 fin. et saep.—C.Trop., in Tertullian: aliquem, to expose to death, to destroy, kill: tot innocentes, Tert. Apol. 44; id. Spect. 12; id. Praescript. 2.—II.To entreat, prevail on by entreaties: precibus erogatus, App. M. 5, p. 165.