To be open: to be manifest, apparant or euident: to be discouered: to be easie to come to: to be in daunger or subiect to daunger. -vt mihi tua domus Te præsente, absente pateat. Terent. Fores concussæ patuere. Ouid. Ianua patet noctes atque dies. Virg. The gate is open day and night. Semper nares propter necessarias vtilitates patent. Cic. Pectus patuit ferro. Ouid. The breast opened to the sworde: the sword prerced into his breast. Tecta patuerunt. Ouid. Via patuit in cœlum. Seneca. Si nobis is cursus, quem sperâram, pateret, effecissem aliquid profectò dignum nostra mora. Cic. If I might haue that course or way freely that I hoped for. &c. Huc tibi aditus patere non potest. Cicer. Thon canst not attaine to the knowledge of these things. Aditus pater ad aliquid, Vide ADEO, adis. Patere & Obstrui, contraria. Cic. Omnibus pater, & promptum est. Cicer. It is open and in a readinesse to all men. Quum illa pateant, in promptúque sine omnibus. Cic. Atria patuerunt doctis libellis. Ouid. Patent aures tuæ querelis omnium. Cic. Thou art readie to heare the complaintes of all men. Causæ patûere. Ouid. The causes be easie to be knowne. Iræ deûm patuere. Lucan. It was euident that the gods were angrie. Vt mihi tui libri pateant, non secus ac si ipse adesses. Cicer. That I may haue free accesse to your librarie. Præmia & honores patere dicuntur alicui. Ci. When he may easily attayne vnto them. Valuæ Concordiæ non patent. Cic. Si mea virginitas Phœbo patuisset amanti. Ouid. If I had suffered my rginitie to be at the pleasure of Phebus. Patent hæc ommbus ad visendum. Cicero. All men may see these things. Literis Latinis illustratus locus patet. Cic. Latè patere. Quint. To be large and of great vse. Auaritia latissim atet. Cic. Latè patet, & ad multos pertinet hæc ars, Vide LATVS. Ne fugæ quidem patebat locus. Liu. He had no place to scape or flie. Patet locus tria stadia. Plin. The place is three furlõgs wide. Planities millia passuum tria in longitudinÊ patebat. Cæs. The plaine was three miles in length. Maximè patet Cappadocia. Cic. Is very large and wide. In latitudinem patere. Quint. To be in breadth. Cuncta maria, terræque patebant Romanis. Salust. All seas and lands were open to the Romanes power, or there was no place that they entered not into. Longis morbis senectus, acutis adolescentia Magis patet. Cels. Is more in daunger or subiect to. Neque aliud magis tempus pestilentiæ patet. Cels. Patent præstigiæ. Plaut. Their craftie driftes be open and euidently seene. Quid porrò quærendum est? factúmne sit? at constat, quo? at patet. Cic. But it is euident.

I. Lit.: januae, aedes patent, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 89: facite totae plateae pateant, id. Aul. 3, 1, 2. nares semper propter necessarias utilitates patent, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 145: omnibus haec ad visendum patebant cotidie, id. Verr 2, 4, 3, 5: cur valvae Concordiae non patent? id. Phil. 2, 44, 112: semitae patuerant, Caes. B. G. 7, 8: ne fugae quidem patebat locus, Liv. 27, 18: patuere fores, Ov. M. 2, 768: (fenestrae) sine injuriā patent, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 16 et saep. —

B. In partic.

1. To lie open, be exposed to any thing: patens vulneri equus, Liv. 31, 39, 12: latus ictui, Tac. H. 5, 11.—

2. To stretch out, extend (cf. porrigor): Helvetiorum fines in longitudinem milia passuum CCXL. patebant, Caes. B. G. 1, 2; 1, 10: schoenus patet stadia XL., Plin. 12, 14, 30, 53.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to be open, free, allowable, accessible, attainable: si nobis is cursus pateret, Cic. Att. 10, 12, 4: ad quos omnis nobis aditus, qui paene solis patuit, obstructus est, id. Brut. 4, 16: praemia quae pateant stipendiariis, id. Balb. 9, 24: ut intellegant omnia Ciceronis patere Trebiano, id. Fam. 6, 10, 3: alicui, to yield to: lux aeterna mihi ... dabatur, Si mea virginitas Phoebo patuisset amanti, Ov. M. 14, 133; id. A. A. 1, 362; Auct. Priap. 83.—

B. In partic.

1. Of the hearing, etc., to be open, ready to hear: (constare inter omnis video) patere aurīs tuas querelis omnium, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, 25: si cujus aures ad hanc disputationem patent, id. Fam. 3, 8, 3: meas auris ... omnium praeceptis patuisse. id. Phil. 14, 7, 20: tamquam nullo magis tempore ad simplices cogitationes pateat animus, Tac. G. 22, 2: semita Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae, Juv. 10, 364.—

2. To be exposed or subject to any thing, Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73: longis morbis senectus, acutis adulescentia magis patet, Cels. 2, 1: qui vanus et excors est patebit contemptui, Vulg. Prov 12, 8.—

3. To extend: in quo vitio latissime patet avaritia, Cic. Off. 1, 7, 20: late patet et ad multos pertinet, id. de Or. 1, 55, 235.—

4. To be clear, plain, well known, evident, manifest (cf.: appareo, detegor): operta quae fuere, aperta sunt, patent praestigiae, Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 9: cum illa pateant in promptuque sint omnibus, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 23: quod in tabulis patebat, id. Phil. 2, 37, 93: in adversariis (hoc nomen) patere contendit, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 5.—With subject-clause: cum pateat aeternum id esse, quod, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54.—Absol.: quid porro quaerendum est? factumne sit? at constat: a quo? at patet, Cic. Mil. 6, 15.—Hence, pă-tens, entis, P. a., open, accessible, unobstructed, passable.

A. Lit.: caelum ex omni parte patens atque apertum, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2: campi patentes, Sall. J. 101, 11.—Comp.: in locis patentioribus, Caes. B. G. 7, 28: via patentior, Liv. 7, 36.—

2. Transf., open, wide: dolium quam patentissimi oris, Col. 12, 6.—

B. Trop.

1. Open, exposed: domus patens, et exposita cupiditati et voluptatibus, Cic. Quint. 30, 93: pelagoque volans da vela patenti, Verg. G. 2, 41: urbs patens, unwalled, Vulg. Prov. 25, 28.—

2. Evident, manifest: causa, Ov. M. 9, 536.— Adv.: pătenter, openly, clearly; in comp.: patentius et expeditius (opp: implicite et abscondite), Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 69