To put on: to put in: to set vpon: to deceiue: to beguile: to blind ones eies: to giue: to inioyne: to laye to ones charge. Imponentes capita clunibus præcedentium. Plini. Laying or putting their heades vpon. Imponere aliquid alicui cum fide. Cicer. To commit to ones charge, with sure trust that he wil faithfully performe it. Arces imponere montibus Vir. To set or build, castles vpon the hilles. Imponere argentum in stipendium. Liu. To appoint or inioyne to pay a summe of money for souldiers wages. Calculum. Col. To cast an account. Claues alias portis. Liui. To chaunge the keyes of the gates. Clausulam disputationi. Col. To finish and conclude the dispntation. Cognomen vel nomen alicui. Plin. To giue one a name. Cui Syriacæ nomen imponunt. Pli. Which they cal Syriacas Coloniam imponere in aliquo agro. Liu. To set newe inhabitance in a place. Consulem populo. Cic. To set or appoint a consull ouerthe people. Coronam alicui. Cic. To set a garland on ones heade. Imponere diadema. Cic. Imponere dignationÊ imperatoris alicui. Tacit. To auaunce one to the state of an emperoure. Dominum aliquibus imponere. Cicer. To set a maister ouer them. In ceruicibus aliquorum sempiternum dominum imponere Cic. Exercitnm Brundusij imposuit. Cic. He set a garison of souldiers at Brundiso. Exitum alicui rei, aut sermonibus imponere. Liu. To make an end of: to conclude. Fastigium operi. Cic. To atchiue or make an ende of that he taketh in hande. Finem bello, vel curis. Plin. iun. Finem luctibus. Ouid. Formam operi. Sen. Plurimas iniurias alicui. Cic. To doe many iniuries to one. LaborÊ alteri. Cic. To inioyne an other to laboure: to put an other to paine or trauaile. Sibi laborem. Cæs. To charge himselfe with paine and tranaile. Legem alicui. Cic. To appoint one what he shall doe. Sibi leges. Cic. To bridle and restraine himselfe. Leges populo. Cic. To appoint lawes for. Per vim leges imponere Reipublicæ. Cic. Manum imponere rei alicui. Oui. To begin: to set hande to a thing. Manum extremam alicui rei. Virgil. To atchieue or make an ende of. Imponere summam manum alicui operi. Plin. Idem. Summam manum imponere in re aliqua. Quin. Idem. Manum supremam bellis imponere. Ouid. To make an end of warres. Pœnæ capiendæ ministerium patri de liberis consulatus imposuit. Liu. The dignitie of % Consulship caused, or iniotned the father to take punishment of his owne sonnes. Modum prosperæ pugnæ. Liu. In prosperous fight to kepe a meane. ModÛ tempori. Liu. To limit the time: to appoint how long. Modum suo dolori. Pli. iun. To moderate, or to vse measure in his sorrow. Multam. Liu. To set a fine or penaltie. Necessitat em. Cic. To constraine. Necesstatem quandam nitoris imponit. Plin. iun. To cause of necessitie to vse a certaine trimnes. Nomen alicui. Ouid. To giue a name to. Nomen vitio. Cic. Onus alicui. To commit the charge to one. Onus simultatis alicui imponere. Ci. To cõstraine one to fall out with other. Partes alicui. Cic. To appo int the office or charge to. Personam alicui. Cicero. To repute one for such a kinde of man. Cui improbã personã imponeret. C. Whome he did appoint to take vpon him that wicked part. Imponatur honestæ ciuitati turpissima persona calumniæ. Cic. Let that honest and worshipful citie be thought or appointed to play the vuhonest part of a false cauiller. Plagam mortiferam Reipublicæ imponere. Ci. To giue the common weale a mortal and deadly wound. Plus aliquid imponere quibusdam populis, qum serre possunt. Cic. To charge or burden some people more, &c. Portam in aliquam regionem. Liui. Vna tantum in eam regionem porta imposita. There was but one gate toward that cost. Præsidium ciuitati. Liu. To set a garison of men in. Pretium. Cic. To set a price. Plagiario pudorem. Mart. To make ashamed. Regem alicui regioni. Liuius. To make or appoint a king ouer. Imponere aliquem in regnum alterius. Liu. Sarcinam alicui. Plaut. To lay the burden on ones shoulders. Seruitutem fundo. Cicero. To appoint a certaine seruice to lande. Silentium alteri. Sueto. To put to silence: to cause to holde his peace. Stipendium. Liu. To inioyne a tribute. Testem. Cic. To put in. Tributum. Cæs. To set at a certaine tribute. Vectigal. Cic. To set a rent. Villicum imponere aliquem aut precori preficere. Ci. To appoint a fermer. Vim alicui. Cic. To constraine. Vocabulum alicui. Tac. To giue one a name. Vulnera Reip. Cic. To hurt & wound the common weale. Imponere in collum, in manÛ, in nauim. Plaut. Liu. To lay on his shoulder: to put into his bande. In aliquam causam aliquem imponere. Cæl. Ciceroni. In eculeum imponere aliquem. Cic. To put into. Imponere aliquem in equum. Liuius. To set up one on horsebacke. In naues exercitus imponere, Lentulus Ciceroni. To ship armies. Imponere in aliquem on us. Plaut. To commit the charge to one. Imponere alicui. Quin. To deceiue: to beguile. Cui egregiè imposuit Milo noster. Cic. Whome our friende Milo deceiued notably.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: pedem in undam. Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 4: hunc in collum, id. Pers. 4, 6, 10: aliquem in rogum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; cf.: in ignem imposita'st: fletur, Ter. And. 1, 1, 102: omnem aciem suam redis et carris circumdederunt: eo mulieres imposuerunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 51 fin.: milites eo (i. e. in equos), id. ib. 1, 42, 5: aliquid in foco Lari, Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 16: coronam auream litteris, Cic. Fl. 31, 76; cf.: collegae diadema, id. Phil. 5, 12: operi incohato fastigium, id. Off. 3, 7, 33: pondera nobis, Lucr. 5, 543: serta delubris et farra cultris, Juv. 12, 84: clitellas bovi, Cic. Att. 5, 15, 3: juvenes rogis, Verg. G. 4, 477: artus mensis, Ov. M. 1, 230: aliquid mensis, id. F. 2, 473: natum axi (i. e. in currum). Stat. Th. 6, 321: frontibus ancillarum vittas, Juv. 12, 118: ali quem mannis, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 77: aliquem jumento, Gell. 20, 1, 11: Pelion Olympo, Hor. C. 3, 4, 52: arces montibus impositae, id. Ep. 2, 1, 253; cf. id. C. 4, 14, 12: impositum saxis Anxur, id. S. 1, 5, 26: celeri raptos per inania vento Imposuit caelo, placed them in the heavens, Ov. M. 2, 507: (Romulum) ablatum terris caelo, id. ib. 14, 811: hoc metuens molemque et montes insuper altos Imposuit, Verg. A. 1, 62; cf.: pedem super cervicem jacentis, Curt. 9, 7 fin.: haec super imposuit liquidum aethera, Ov. M. 1, 67: ei jus est in infinito supra suum aedificium imponere, to build, Dig. 8, 2, 24: pontibus praesidiisque impositis, Tac. A. 2, 11: pons lapideus flumini impositus, Curt. 5, 1, 29: quidvis oneris impone, impera, Ter. And. 5, 3, 26; id. Phorm. 3, 3, 29: nec peredit Impositam celer ignis Aetnam, Hor. C. 3, 4, 76: diadema imposuit, Quint. 9, 3, 61: pars togae, quae postea imponitur, id. 11, 3, 140. —

B. In partic.

1. Naut. t. t., to put on board ship, to embark; with in and acc.: quicquid domi fuit in navem imposivit, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 27: in quas (naves) exercitus ejus imponi posset, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 1: legiones equitesque Brundisii in naves, Caes. B. C. 3, 14, 1: aeris magno pondere in naves imposito, id. ib. 3, 103, 1.—With dat.: et nos in aeternum Exsilium impositura cymbae, Hor. C. 2, 3, 28: ut semel imposita est pictae Philomela carinae, Ov. M. 6, 511.—With adv.: deprehensis navibus circiter quinquaginta atque eo militibus inpositis, Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 4: scaphas contexit, eoque milites imposuit, id. B. C. 3, 24, 1. — With abl.: vetustissima nave impositi, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 66. — Absol.: ipsi expediti naves conscenderent, quo major numerus militum posset imponi, Caes. B. C. 3, 6, 1: cum Crassus exercitum Brundisii imponeret, Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84: signa nostra velim imponas, id. Att. 1, 10, 3: per istos quae volebat clam imponenda curabat, id. Verr. 2, 4, 10, 23.—

2. Med. t. t., to apply a remedy externally: alium imponitur in vulnera, Plin. 20, 6, 23, 50: porrum vulneribus, id. 20, 6, 21, 47: raphanos super umbilicum contra tormenta vulvae, id. 20, 4, 13, 27: imponuntur et per se folia, id. 23, 7, 71, 138.—

3. Of animals, to put the male to the female: asinum equae, Col. 6, 36, 4; 7, 2, 5.—In mal. part., Juv. 6, 334.

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to put or lay upon, to impose; to throw or inflict upon; to put, set, or give to: culpam omnem in med inponito, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54: cujus amicitia me paulatim in hanc perditam causam imposuit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, 1: ne magnum onus observantiae Bruto nostro imponerem, Cic. Att, 13, 11, 1: onus alicui, id. Fam. 6, 7, 6; 13, 56, 1; id. Rep. 1, 23; cf.: plus militi laboris, id. Mur. 18, 38: graviores labores sibi, Caes. B. C. 3, 74, 2: illi illud negotium, Cic. Sest. 28, 60: vos mihi personam hanc imposuistis, ut, etc., id. Agr. 2, 18, 49; cf. Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 10, 2: si mihi imposuisset aliquid, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4: ego mihi necessitatem volui imponere hujus novae conjunctionis, id. ib. 4, 5, 2; cf. id. Sull. 12, 35: mihi impone istam vim, ut, etc., id. Verr. 2, 2, 60, 138: rei publicae vulnera, id. Fin. 2, 24, 66; so, vulnus rei publicae, id. Att. 1, 16, 7: plagam mortiferam rei publicae, id. Sest. 19, 44: quibus injurias plurimas contumeliasque imposuisti, id. Verr. 2, 4, 9, 20: injuriam sine ignominia alicui, id. Quint. 31, 96; cf. id. Rep. 1, 3: servitus fundo illi imposita, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2, 3: servitutem civibus, Sall. Or. ad Caes. 2: belli invidiam consuli, id. C. 43, 1: leges civitati per vim imposuit, Cic. Phil. 7, 5, 15: leges alicui, id. ib. 12, 1, 2; id. Rep. 1, 34; cf.: saevas imponite leges, ut, etc., Juv. 7, 229: nimis duras leges huic aetati, Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 256: huic praedae ac direptioni cellae nomen imponis, assign, give, id. Verr. 2, 3, 85, 197: nomen alicui, Liv. 35, 47, 5; Quint. 8, 3, 7; Tac. A. 4, 34; 14, 39 et saep.; cf.: imponens cognata vocabula rebus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 280: finem imponere volumini, Quint. 9, 4, 146: finem spei, Liv. 5, 4, 10: clausulam disputationi, Col. 3, 19, 3; cf.: quasi perfectis summam eloquentiae manum imponerent, gave the last touch to, Quint. prooem. 4: summam manum operi, Plin. 36, 5, 4, 16; Sen. Ep. 12, 4; Vell. 2, 33, 1; 2, 87, 1; Gell. 17, 10, 5; Quint. 1 prooem. 4: extremam manum bello, Verg. A. 7, 573: manum supremam bellis, Ov. R. Am. 114: modum alicui, Liv. 4, 24, 7: modum dolori, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16: modum divortiis, Suet. Aug. 34.—Prov.: imponit finem sapiens et rebus honestis, Juv. 6, 444 (453).—

B. In partic.

1. To set over, as overseer, commander, etc.: si emimus, quem vilicum imponeremus, quem pecori praeficeremus, Cic. Planc. 25, 62: consul est impositus is nobis, quem, etc., id. Att. 1, 18, 3: Lacedaemonii devictis Atheniensibus triginta viros imposuere, Sall. C. 51, 28: Macedoniae regem, Liv. 40, 12, 15; cf.: Masinissam in Syphacis regnum, id. 37, 25, 9: Cappadociae consularem rectorem, Suet. Vesp. 8: quid si domini milites imperatoribus imponantur? Liv. 45, 36, 8: itaque imposuistis cervicibus nostris sempiternum dominum (deum), Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54 (al. in cervicibus).—

2. To lay or impose upon, as a burden, tax, etc.: omnibus agris publicis pergrande vectigal. Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 10: vectigal fructibus, id. Font. 5, 10: stipendium victis, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 5: tributa genti, Suet. Dom. 12; so, tributi aliquid alicui, id. Calig. 40; cf.: tributum in capita singula, Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 1: frumentum, Cic. Att. 15, 10: nulla onera nova, Hirt. B. G. 8, 49 fin.—

3. Alicui, to impose upon, deceive, cheat, trick (= frustror, fallo, fraudo, circumvenio): Catoni egregie imposuit Milo noster, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: si mihi imposuisset aliquid, id. Att. 15, 26, 4: populo imposuimus et oratores visi sumus, id. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 20 and 55: praefectis Antigoni imposuit, Nep. Eum. 5, 7; Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 3: facile est barbato inponere regi, Juv. 4, 103: falluntur quibus luxuria specie liberalitatis imponit, Tac. H. 1, 30.— Pass. impers.: utcumque imponi vel dormienti posset, Petr. 102.