Ostendo, ostendis, ostendi, ostensum, & ostentum, ostendere Ab os & tendo compositum est, Plaut.To shew: to declare: to tell: to open as one doth his wares to sell.-ostende huc manus. ST. Hem cibi ostendi, eccas. Plaut.Shew me thy handes.Ostendere & declarare.Cic. Demonstrare & ostendere. Cic.Ostendere & patefacere. Ci. Proponere & ostendere Cic.De his primùm partibus ostendendÛ est, deinde, &c. Author ad Heren. -opportune te mihi Phidippe in ipso tempore ostendis.Terent.Thow meetest with me in very good time.Aperte ostendit quod haber vænale. Hor. Corm ostendere aliquid alicui.Virg.Digitis ostendere. Oui. To shew one his fingers.Bellum ostendere.Liu.To proclaime or denounce warre.Bellum indicere & ostendere.Liu.Iter ad ingenij lumen ostendere. Quin. To declare a towardnesse to attaine an excellent witte.Ostendere de excelso locum aliquem. Cicero. Standing on high, to shew or poynt to a place.Metum ostendere.Cic.To threaten one and put him in fearePostquam ei mores ostendi tuos.Terent.Ostendere & offerre os suum.Cic.Tot peccata in hac re ostendis.Terent.Thou dcest so manye waies offend in this matter.Ossendere aliquem peccare in re aliqua.Terent.Potestarem suam in aliquo ostendere. Ter. To shew theyr autoritie and power vpon one.Ostende quam sis callidus.Terent.Declare how wyly & crafty a fellow thou arte.Qui simus ostendamus.Cic.Let vs shew what we are.
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ostendo, di, sum, and tum (ostensus, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 892 P.; Luc. 2, 192: ostentus, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45; Pac. and Varr. ap. Prisc. l. l.; Tac. H. 1, 78: ostensurus, Suet. Ner. 13; App. ap. Prisc. p. 892 P.: ostenturus, Cato, Or. 52, 2; v. also the apoc. form: ostende ostendam, ut permultis aliis exemplis ejus generis manifestum est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 201 Müll.; perh. used by Cato, v. Müll. ad loc., and cf. the letter E), v. a. [obs-tendo], to stretch out or spread before one; hence, to expose to view, to show, exhibit, display (syn.: monstro, exhibeo). I.Lit.A. In gen. 1. Ostendo manus, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 17: os suum populo Romano ostendere audet, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 1, 1: pectora, Sil. 2, 669: umeros, Verg. A. 5, 376: dentem, Suet. Vesp. 5: se,
to show one's self
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appear
, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 5: aciem,
to display
, Liv. 29, 7: equites sese ostendunt,
show themselves
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appear
, Caes. B. C. 1, 63. —2.Transf.: vocem,
to make heard
, Phaedr. 1, 13, 9.—B. In partic., to lay open, expose (poet.): Aquiloni glaebas, Verg. G. 2, 261: lucos Phoebo, Stat. Th. 6, 90: ager qui soli ostentus erit, Cato, R. R. 6, 2. —II.Trop.A. In gen., to show, disclose, exhibit, manifest: ille dies cum gloriā maximā sese nobis ostendat, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 880 P. (Ann. v. 384 Vahl.): non ego illi extemplo ita meum ostendam sensum, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 21: verum hoc facto sese ostendit,
, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, 75 et saep.—With two acc.: aliquem nocentem, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 2; cf. Tit. ap. Gell. 2, 27, 5.—Mid., to show itself, appear: nisi cum major spes ostenderetur, Suet. Aug. 25.—B. In partic. 1.To show, express, indicate by speech or signs; to give to understand, to declare, say, tell, make known, etc. (syn.: indico, declaro, significo).—With acc.: illud ostendit, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 4.—With obj.- or rel.-clause: ostendit se cum rege colloqui velle, Nep. Con. 3, 2: quid sui consilii sit, ostendit, Caes. B. G. 1, 21; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 3.—Absol.: ut ostendimus supra,
as we showed above
, Nep. Ages. 1, 5: sed aliter, atque ostenderam, facio, Cic. Fam. 2, 3, 2: signum est per quod ostenditur idonea perficiendi facultas esse quaesita, Auct. Her. 2, 4, 6: primum ostendendum est, id. ib. 2, 16, 23.—2.To hold up conspicuously, flourish (ironically): sed quaedam mihi magnifica et praeclara ejus defensio ostenditur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 1, 1.—Hence, osten-tus, a, um, P. a.A.Exposed (ante-class.): ager soli ostentus, Cato, R. R. 6, 2; so id. ib. 6, 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 1; 1, 25.—B.Subst.: ostentum, i, n.1.Lit., a prodigy, wonder, that announces something about to happen, a portent (class.; syn.: monstrum, portentum): praedictiones vero et praesensiones rerum futurarum quid aliud declarant, nisi hominibus ea, quae futura sunt, ostendi, monstrari, portendi, praedici? ex quo illa ostenta, monstra, portenta, prodigia dicuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7; cf. id. Div. 1, 42, 93; id. Verr. 2, 4, 49, 108; Suet. Caes. 32.—2.Transf., a wondrous thing, prodigy: scis Appium ostenta facere, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 4: ostenti prorsus genus, Just. 10, 1, 6.
