To say: to giue: to affirme. pulmo enim (Quod perhibent) prius venisset, qum tu aduenisti mihi. Plaut. As men say, or as the saying is. Nusquam perhibentur blandiores gentium. Plautus. Men say there are none more gentle or courteous in anye place of the worlde. Persarum montes qui esse aurei perhibentur. Plaut. Which men say are all of golde. Si vos vultis perhiberi probos. Terent. If you will be called good, and honest men. Cum quibus (vt perhibent) ausa est contendere. Cice. With whome (as men say) &c. Clato nomiue aliquem perhibere. Cic. Suo nomine aliquem perhibere. Cicero. To call one by his owne name. Bene qui conijcier, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum. Ci I wil say he is the best prophet which can best coniecture of things to come. Perhibere. To giue. Plaut. cur ego vestem, Aurum, atque ea quibus est vobis vsui, perhibeo? Why doe I giue, &c. Testimonium perhibere. Plin. iun. To beare witnesse. Vt verba perhibent, me perijsse prædicas. Plau. So farre as I perceiued by thy words, thou sayest I am vndone. Honorem perhibere. Plin. To giue honour. Perhiberi, passiuum. Cic. Non modo adiutores victoriæ, sed etiam nuntij fuisse perhibentur. They are reported. Tellus falsa, quæ perhibetur amara. Virg.

I. In gen. (mostly ante-class. and post-Aug.; cf.: edo, exhibeo): operam rei publicae fortem atque strenuam, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19: magnanimitatis exemplum, Plin. 7, 25, 26, 93: testimonium, to bear witness, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 1; Col. 3, 9; Plin. 7, 30, 31, 112; 7, 38, 39, 127: ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine, Vulg. Joan. 1, 8; Aug. Civ. Dei, 10, 2 fin.; Vulg. Rom. 10, 2 et saep.: in causā universorum creditorum, qui sine eo, quem Caecilius suo nomine perhiberet, facile causam communem sustinerent, to bring forward, furnish, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 4: magnam auctoritatem huic animali perhibet Nigidius, attributes, Plin. 29, 6, 39, 138: alicui rei palmam, to give the preference, id. 31, 7, 39, 80: cui (Vettonicae) tanta vis perhibetur, ut, etc., id. 25, 8, 55, 101; 18, 11, 26, 104: ut rebus praecipuis honos in primis perhibeatur, id. 29, 1, 9, 29.—

II. In partic., to say, assert any thing; to call, name any thing (mostly poet.; in Cic. very rare, perh. only three times; cf. Madv. Opusc. Acad. p. 200, and ad Cic. Fin. p. 163): vento quem perhibent Graium genus aëra linguā, Enn. ap. Prob. ad Verg. E. 6, 31 (Ann. v. 149 Vahl.); cf.: id quod nostri caelum memorant, Grai perhibent aethera, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 17 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 71 Rib.): est locus Hesperiam quam mortales perhibebant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 23 Vahl.): omnes corde patrem perhibent, id. ap. Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 39 (id. v. 460 ib.): Jove propagatus est, ut perhibent, Tantalus, Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 57; so, ut perhibent viri, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 68; and: Electrā, ut Graii perhibent, Atlantide cretus, Verg. A. 8, 135: bene qui coniciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 5, 12.—With acc. and inf.: fortunam insanam esse perhibent philosophi, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 36 (Trag. Rel. p. 104 Rib.).—In pass.: sophiam sapientia quae perhibetur, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 325 Müll. (Ann. v. 227 Vahl.): sane ego me nolo fortem perhiberi virum, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 7, 7, 3: quis me inprobior perhibeatur esse, id. Trin. 3, 2, 66: montes, qui esse aurei perhibentur, are said to be, id. Stich. 1, 1, 25: Tyndaridae fratres, qui nuntii fuisse perhibentur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28: his (Romulus) dicitur ... perhibetur ceteris praestitisse, id. Rep. 2, 2, 4: nec minus est Spartiates Agesilaus ille perhibendus, to be named, cited, id. Fam. 5, 12, 7.