Interpono, interpônis. pe. pro. interpósui, interpósitum, pe. cor. interpónere. Cicer.To put or set betweene: to resist: to intermeddle: to mingle: to suborne.Interponere accusatorem Cic.To suborne and set vp an accusour.Interponere se audaciæ alicuius. Ci. To withstand, let, or restste ones presumption.Aquam. Mart. To mixe water with the wine.Authoritatem.Cic.By his authoritie to commaund a thing to be done or not to be done.Nondum interposita authoritate vestra. Cicero. Before they had any commaundement from you: not looking for your commaundentent: before you had willed them: without your authoritie.Condimentis interponere. Plin. To put or mixe in sauceConsilium suum consilio alterius.Liu.To follow his owne counsaile before an other maus.Decretum.Liu.Cic.To make a decree.Dies intercalares mensibus.Liu.To adde the oddes in the monthes of the leape yeare.Diebus aliquot interpositis. Varro. After two or three daies: when two or three daies were past.Fidem alicui. Cæs. To promise and be suretie for one.Fidem suam in aliquam rem.Cic.To be suretie & vndertake for the doing of a thing.In eam rem se, suámque fidem interposuit. Cæsar. He vndertooke and became suretie himselfe for the thing.Iudicium suum.Cic.To adde his iudgement: by his iudgement to allow.Iusiurandum.Liu.To take an oth: to sweare that he will.Moram interponere quod & Moram nectere dicitur. Ci. To vse delay: to deferre: to prolong: to driue of a matter.Magna fluminis interposita mora. Cæsar. NomÊ alicuius in re aliqua.Cic.To set ones name in a thing for colont or fraude.Noctem.Cic.To deferre one night.Operam luam pro aliquo.Cic.To traucil or doe the beste he can for one.Pœnas.Cic.To threaten punishment.Postularum. Cicero. To require or demaund a thing that men may consult whether it be to be graunted or not.Querelas.Cic.To make complaintes as men bee talking of matters.Se interponere.Cic.To intermeddle in a thing.Me nihil impono. Cicero. I will not meddle at al in %matter.Sapientius facies, si te in istam pacificationÊ non interpones Cic.You shal doe more wisely if you meddle not in this agreement making. Spatium. Cic.To take a pause.Nulla belli suspicione interposita. Cæs. Making no suspiti of warre.Neque interea verbum vllum interposuit Næuius aut soci focietatem sibi quippiam debere, aut priuatim Quinti debuisse. Cic.Neither did Nuins speake one woorde all that time, &c.
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inter-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a., to put, place, lay, or set between or among, to interpose, insert between.I.Lit.A. Of place, constr. with acc. and dat., or inter with acc.: equitatus praesidia levis armaturae, Hirt. B. G. 8, 17; 13; 19: vestibus interponi eam (herbam) gratissimum, Plin. 21, 6, 20, 43: ubi spatium inter muros ... pilae interponuntur, Caes. B. C. 2, 15: inter eos levis armaturae Numidas, Hirt. B. Afr. 13: uti levis armatura interjecta inter equites suos interponeretur, id. ib. 20: sulcos, Cato, R. R. 33, 3: ne interpositi quidem elephanti militem deterrebant, Liv. 37, 42: lateri vinculum lapides sunt, quos interposuere, ut, etc., Curt. 8, 10, 25.—B. Esp. 1.To insert, interpose, introduce.—Of time: intercalariis mensibus interpositis, Liv. 1, 19, 6; cf.: inediam unius diei per singulos menses, Suet. Vesp. 20.—Of musical notes: iis sonis quos interposuerant, inserunt alios, Quint. 12, 10, 68.—Of words or language: ne inquam et inquit saepius interponeretur, Cic. Lael. 1: hoc loco libet interponere ... quantae, etc., Nep. Pelop. 3, 1: subinde interponenti precibus, quid respondebo, etc., Quint. 6, 3, 64: paucis interpositis versibus, Cic. Div. 1, 57, 131: aliquid, Quint. 2, 4, 12: verbum ullum, Cic. Quint. 4, 15; so, querelas, id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1: meam sententiam, Quint. 5 prooem. 3. — Of a letter in a word: quibusdam (verbis litteram), Quint. 1, 5, 17.—Of a foot in verse: quibusdam (iambus) interpositus, id. 10, 1, 96.— 2. Of time, to let pass, permit to elapse, leave an interval: spatium ad recreandos animos, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: ejus rei causa moram interponi arbitrabatur, id. B. G. 4, 9, fin.: tridui mora interposita,
, id. Clu. 2, 5; Liv. 5, 5, 10: diebus aliquot interpositis, Varr. R. R. 3, 9: tempore interposito, Suet. Tib. 9; cf. id. Claud. 26; Plin. 25, 8, 49, 88: hac interposita nocte, Liv. 44, 39.— 3.To mingle: frigidam (cibis),
to drink cold water while eating
, Plin. 28, 4, 14, 55; cf.: condimentis cuminum,
to mix with
, id. 20, 15, 58, 153.— C. With personal objects, to introduce among, admit among, bring into, to bring into a feast, a society, among associates, etc.: quam sancta sit societas civium, dis immortalibus interpositis, etc., Cic. Leg. 2, 7, 16: aliquem convivio, Suet. Claud. 39: legatos familiaribus, id. Ner. 22. —II.Trop., to interpose, introduce, put in the way, put forward.A. In gen., as a hinderance, interference, reason, or pretext: Lentulus provinciam, quam sorte habebat, interposita religione, deposuit, Cic. Pis. 21, 50: neque ulla belli suspicione interposita, Caes. B. G. 4, 32: nulla interposita dubitatione, id. ib. 7, 40; Hirt. B. G. 8, 48; 52: interposita pactione, Just. 7, 6, 5: offensione aliqua interposita, Cic. Phil. 2, 4: nec colloquium interposita causa tolli volebat, Caes. B. G. 1, 42; Hirt. B. Alex. 70: causam interponens collegas exspectare, Nep. Them. 7, 2: postulata haec ab eo interposita esse, quominus, etc., Cic. Att. 7, 15, 3: operam, studium, laborem pro sociis, id. Div. in Caecin. 19.—B. Esp. 1. Of a judgment, decree, edict, oath, etc.: jurejurando interposito, Liv. 34, 25, 7; Suet. Caes. 85: jus eo die se non dicturum, neque decretum interpositurum, Liv. 3, 46, 3: ad decreta interponenda pecuniam occipere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, 119; Suet. Tib. 33: judicium suum, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150: poenas compromissaque, id. Verr. 2, 2, 27, 66: exceptionem actioni, Dig. 44, 1, 2: intercessionem suam (of a tribune of the people), Val. Max. 6, 1, 10: tutor interponit auctoritatem suam,
gives his authorization
, Gai. Inst. 1, 190. — 2. Fidem interponere, to pledge one's word or credit: fidem suam in eam rem, Caes. B. G. 5, 36, 2: fidem reliquis interponere, jusjurandum poscere, ut, etc., id. ib. 5, 6, 6: fidem suam in re omni, Hirt. B. Alex. 63: omni interposita fide, Caes. B. C. 3, 86: ut in eam rem fidem suam, si quid opus esse putaret, interponeret, Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 114; cf.: sponsio interponeretur, Liv. 9, 9.—3. Se interponere (in aliquid, or alicui rei; also with quominus or absol.), to interfere, intermeddle, engage in, set one's self in the way: si te in istam pacificationem non interponis, Cic. Fam. 10, 27, 2: bello se, Liv. 35, 48: num ego me non interpono Romanis, Just. 3, 10, 11: num quem putas posse reperiri, qui se interponat, quominus, etc.?Cic. Vatin. 15: quid enim me interponerem audaciae tuae?
expose myself
, id. Phil. 2, 4, 19: ni tribuni plebis interposuissent se, Liv. 27, 6: tu vero, quod voles, facies; me nihil interpono, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 5.— Rarely, to interfere, interpose in behalf of any one: semper se interposuit, Nep. Att. 2, 4; 9, 5: Qui me mediis interposuerim Caesaris scriptis, i.e. by writing a continuation, Hirt. B. G. 8 praef.
