Paciscor, pacisceris, pen. cor pactus sum. pacisei. Cicero. To make couenannt: to vargaiue: to patise: to indent.Nec vnquam de mercibus pactus Suet.Cum Xerxe nuptias filiæ eius paciscitur. Iustinus. Hee conenaunted with Xerxes to warry his dang hter.Pacisci & constituere diem.Cic.Fœdus pacisci.Cic.To make a league.Inducias aliquot dierum cum hoste pacisci.Cic.To make a truce with his euimies for certaine dayes.Pactus est duo mlia. Martial. He conenaunted or agreede to giue two thousande.Prærnium pacisci ab aliquo.Cic.To couenaunt with one to haue a rewarde.Pretium pacisci.Ouid.Prerium prædombus pro capite pacisci. Cice. To agree with the pirates what to giue for his raunsome.Pacifci vitam ab hoste.Salust.To couenatint with his euimy to saue his life.Vitam pro laude pacisci. Virgil. To bee willing to giue hys life to get honour and piaise. Pactus est illum dimitti. Plini. Hee coutnaunted that he shoulde be let go.Nequis frumentum de area tolleret, antequam cum decumano pactus esset.Cicer.Before he had agreede wyth the fatmer of the tenths.Pascitur magna mercede cum Celriberorum principibus vt copias inde abducant.Liu.For a grcate lmume of money hee agreeth with the princes of Celtiheria to haue awaye the armie.Sestertio cum aliquo pacisci.Cic. Filiam alicui pacisci.Cicer.To promise and agree with one to haue his daughter.Quum pacta esset illa Cæsari. Plin. After shee was betrothed to Cæsar.Cui pacta Lauinia ante aduentum Æneæ fuerat.Liui.To whoure Lauinia was betrothed or promised in ntarriage before Aeneas came. Iniquè pacisci. Cic.
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păcisco, ĕre, 3, v. n. and a. [collat. form of dep. paciscor, q. v.], to agree, contract, bargain, covenant (class. only in perf. part. pass.): id quoque paciscunt, Naev. ap. Non. 474, 17: paciscit, obsides ut reddant, id. ib. 18.—Hence, pactus, a, um, in pass. signif., agreed upon, settled, determined, covenanted, stipulated (class.). A. In gen.: pactum pretium, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107: pacta praemia, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 2: dies, id. Cat. 1, 9, 24: merces, Hor. C. 3, 3, 22: foedus, Cic. Sest. 14, 33: cum hoste pactae induciae, id. Off. 1, 10, 33.—In the abl. absol.: quidam pacto inter se ut victorem res sequeretur, ferro decreverunt,
by agreement
, Liv. 28, 21, 5; Sil. 14, 97.—B. In partic., betrothed: haec tibi pacta'st Callicli filia, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 59: cujus filio pacta est Artavasdis filia, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 2: alii pacta puella, Tac. A. 1, 55: Turnus, cui pacta Lavinia fuerat, Liv. 1, 2: conjux, Verg. A. 10, 722.—Hence, as subst.1. pacta, ae, f., a betrothed woman: gremiis abducere pactas, Verg. A. 10, 79: pacta ejus, Menelai filia, Vell. 1, 1, 3; Juv. 6, 200.—2. pactus, i, m., a betrothed husband, a man engaged or promised in marriage: proles Amissum didicere patrem, Marpissaque pactum, Stat. Th. 3, 172.—3. pactum, i, n., an agreement, covenant, contract, stipulation, compact, pact (cf.: conventio, pactio, obligatio): pactum est, quod inter aliquos convenit, Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 68; cf. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: pacta et promissa semperne servanda sint, Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92: mansit in condicione atque pacto, id. Verr. 1, 6, 16: pacti et conventi formula, id. Caecin. 18, 51; cf.: ex pacto et convento, id. Att. 6, 3, 1: pacta conventaque, Sen. Ben. 3, 15, 1: stare pacto, Liv. 9, 11: pactum violans, Vulg. Mal. 2, 10 et saep.—Hence (eccl. Lat.), the covenant of God: dereliquerunt pactum Domini, Vulg. Deut. 29, 25; id. 3 Reg. 11, 11; id. 2 Par. 6, 14.—Poet.: sacrum, i. e.
a marriagecontract
, Val. Fl. 8, 401; cf. Juv. 6, 25.—(b).Transf., in gen., abl. pacto (like ratione and modo), manner, way, means (class.): percontat Aeneas, quo pacto Troiam urbem liquerit, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 1: si non fecero ei male aliquo pacto, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 27; id. Am. prol. 137: nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit,
how
, Cic. Mur. 21, 43; id. Quint. 17: non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi, etc., Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 46: aliquo pacto verba his dabo, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 13: quoquo pacto tacito est opus, id. Ad. 3, 2, 44: si nullo alio pacto, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 71: alio pacto docere, Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30: fieri nullo pacto potest, ut, etc., id. Fin. 1, 8, 27; Ter. And. 1, 5, 12: servi mei si me isto pacto metuerent, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 10; 1, 8, 13: hoc pacto, Verg. G. 2, 248.
păciscor, pactus, 3, v. dep. n. and a. (act. collat. form, v. supra) [1. paco], to make a bargain, contract, or agreement with any one; to covenant, agree, stipulate, bargain, contract respecting any thing (cf.: transigo, stipulor, pango). I.Lit.A. In gen. (a).Neutr.: pacisci cum illo paululā pecuniā potes, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 24; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, 36; Ov. M. 4, 702: paciscitur magnā mercede cum Celtiberorum principibus, ut, etc., Liv. 25, 33; cf.: pacti sunt inter se, ut die statutā, Just. 1, 10, 4; 16, 4, 7; 38, 3, 5; cf. esp. id. 3, 6, 10: votis pacisci, Ne Cypriae Tyriaeque merces Addant avaro divitias mari (= votis transigere cum dis), Hor. C. 3, 29, 59: de mercedibus, Suet. Gram. 7.—(b).Act.: quae pacisci modo scis, set quod pacta's, non scis solvere, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 89: argentum, id. ib. arg. 1, 9: quam (provinciam) sibi pactus erat, Cic. Sest. 25, 55: rem, Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: pecuniam cum aliquo, Auct. B. Alex. 55: omnibus proscriptis, reditum salutemque pactus est, Vell. 2, 77, 2: ab aliquo vitam, Sall. J. 26, 1; so, pactus in singulos (homines) minas decem a tyranno, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 99: cum Xerxe nuptias filiae, Just. 2, 15, 14.—With object-clause: Leucippo fieri pactus uterque gener, Ov. F. 5, 702: dimitti (eum) pactus, si, etc., Plin. 8, 7, 7, 18.—In part. fut. pass.: ut firma fierent paciscenda, Amm. 31, 12, 13.—B. In partic., of a marriage-contract, to betroth a woman (syn.: despondeo, spondeo): ex quā pactus esset vir domo, in matrimonium duceret, Liv. 4, 4, 10: Etutam pacto fratri eum invidisse, id. 44, 30, 4.—II.Trop., to barter, hazard, stake (poet.): vitam pro laude, Verg. A. 5, 230: letum pro laude, id. ib. 12, 49: aevum pro luce, Stat. Th. 1, 317.