To lay or put against. To oppose. Obijcere & opponere. Cic. Ad omne periculum solus opponitur. Cicer. He onely first is put to aduenture all daunger. Auriculam opponere. Hor. To lay ones care to harken. Anthoritatem suam opponere. Cicer. To resist with his authoritie. Causam opponere. Cic. To lay an excuse: to lay a reason or cause. Corpus pro patria opponere. Liu. To offer their bodies to daunger for their countrey. Formidines opponere. Ouid. To put men in feare. Genu opposuit costis. Ouid. Opponere alicui insidias. Cic. To lay an ambushment to intrappe one. Manum opposuit ante oculos. Ouid. He put his hand before his eies. Manum puella suauio opponat tuo. Horat. Manum fronti opponere. Ouid. Milites ad portas opponere. Liu. To set souldiours at the gates. Moles fluctibus opponere. Cicer. To make pyles or dammes to stop the water. Natura opposuit montes mari. Lucan. Opponebant illi interdum nomen Africani. Cicer. They obiected some time the name of Africane. Nomen alicuius ad rem aliquam faciendam opponere. Cic. To threaten men with ones name if they will not doe a thing. Onerariarum quadruplicem ordinem pro muro aduersus hostem opposuit. Liu. Periculis se opponere. Cic. To offer himselfe to danger. Præsidium opponere. Cic. To set a garrison to defend. Opponere se inuidiæ pro patriæ salute. Cic. To put himselfe in danger of hatred and displeasure for. Terrorem armari exercitus opponere togatis. Cicero. To threaten citizeits with the terror of an army. Hoc omni virtuti vitium opponitur. Cic. This vice is contrary to all vertue. Opponere nomen æqui iniquitati. Cicer. To set the name of equitie against vniustice. Vrbem vrbi opponere. Cic. Opponere. Cic. To oppose: to obiect in disputations. Opponere, pro co quod alis Deponere dicitur. Plaut. To gage: to lay downe a pawne. Opponere pignori, Idem. Plaut. Ager oppositus est pignori ob decem minas. Terent.

Contraritie in putting or setting.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: se venientibus in itinere, Caes. B. C 3, 30: huic equites, id. ib. 3, 75: turrim ad introitum portūs, id. ib. 3, 39: armatos homines ad omnes introitus. Cic. Caecin. 8, 27: Eumenem adversariis, Nep. Eum. 3, 2: (Hannibali) opposuit natura Alpemque nivemque, Juv 10, 152.—To place or put before, to hold before: ante oculos opposuit manum, Ov F. 4, 178: oculis manūs, id. ib. 3, 46: manum fronti, id. M. 2, 276: gallinae se opponant (pullis), Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130: foramini oculos, to keep before the opening, Petr. 96: eos opponi omnibus contionibus auctores ad perniciem meam, represented, held up as, Cic. Sest. 19, 42: licet antestari? ego vero Oppono auriculam, offer, present, Hor. S. 1, 9, 76: oppositas habere fores, i. e. closed, Ov. H. 17, 8. —To apply, as a remedy: brassicam, Cato, R. R. 157.—

B. In partic., to set against as a pledge, to pledge, wager, mortgage: pono pallium: ille suum anulum opposivit, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 77: potes mutuam drachumam me dare? Ps. Vix hercle opino, etsi me opponam pignori, id. Ps. 1, 1, 84: ager oppositus est, pignori ob decem minas, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 56; Vulg. 2 Esdr. 5, 3.—So, with a play upon both meanings: villula nostra non ad Austri flatus opposita est, verum ad milia quindecim, mortgaged, Cat. 26, 1 sq. —

C. To expose, lay bare or open, abandon: opponere se periculis pro re publicā, Cic. Balb. 10, 26: Saguntinis pro nudatā moenibus patriā corpora opponentibus, Liv. 21, 8: nudatas radices hiberno frigori, Plin. 17, 28, 47, 262.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to set before, bring forward, set before the eyes or mind, to oppose, adduce, allege: pericula intendantur, formidines opponantur, Cic. Quint. 14, 47: ut ante occupet (orator), quod videat opponi, id. Or. 40, 138; id. Top. 24, 92; 25, 96: auctoritatem suam, id. Ac. 2, 20, 64: his quattuor causis totidem medicinae opponuntur, id. de Or. 2, 83, 339: opposuisti semel Ciceronis nostri valetudinem: conticui, id. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 1: muri causam, id. Off. 3, 10, 41.—

B. In partic.

1. To speak against, oppose, object, reply, adduce in contradiction: quid opponas, si negem, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 8: non minorem auctoritatem, id. Ac. 2, 20, 6: iis opposuit sese Socrates, id. Brut. 8, 31: quid habes quod mihi opponas? id. Phil. 2, 4, 8 sq.: ut opponeret Stoicis, summum bonum esse frui iis rebus, id. Ac. 2, 42, 131.—

2. To set against, oppose, by way of comparison: multis secundis proeliis unum adversum, et id mediocre, opponerent, Caes. B. C. 3, 73; Phaedr. Epil. 2: rationibus labores, Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4: quotiens quis dixerit, occidit Alexander Persarum multa milia, opponetur et Callisthenem, Sen. Q. N. 6, 23, 2; id. Ep. 117, 5; 118, 8 sq.; cf.: felicia tempora, quae te Moribus opponunt! Juv. 2, 39.—

C. Jusjurandum alicui, to impose an oath on one, Dig. 37, 14, 6.—Hence. oppŏsĭtus, a, um, P a., placed or standing against or opposite, lying over against, opposed to, opposite (class.): moles oppositae fluctibus, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14: luna opposita soli, id. Div. 2, 6, 17: oppositam petens contra Zancleia saxa Rhegion, Ov. M. 14, 47.—Trop.: Narbo propugnaculum istis ipsis nationibus oppositum, Cic. Font. 1, 3.—

2. Subst.: oppŏsĭta, ōrum, n. plur., opposite, i. e. contradictory propositions, opposites (postclass.): opposita (a)ntikei/mena Graeci dicunt), Geil. 16, 8, 13.