To suffer: to permit: to grant: to giue licence, power, or authoritie to do a thing. To pardon: to yelde or deliuer: to commit: to let downe: to send foorth. Trans maria permitti. Col. To be sent ouer. Permittere pro immittere. vt Equum in hostem permittere. Liu. To giue the horse the bridle, and gallop forth against his enimie. Concitant equos permittuntque in hostem. Liu. They set spurres to the horse, and goe forth against the enimie. Carinas permittere turbinibus. Claud. Permittere sese militibus. Li. To commit and put himself into the souldiours handes. Permittere se fidei, vel in fidem & potestatÊ alicuius. Cæsa. To yeelde and put himselfe into ones hauds and tuition. Permittere sein deditionem alicuius. Li. To yeelde himself to one. Permittere. Ci. To grant, suffer, or permit: to giue licence, &c. Tibi pater permittimus. Ter. Father, we are content you shall doe it. De eo permissum ipsi erat, facere quod è Reipub. duceret esse. Li. As concerning that matter authoritie was granted him to do that he thought to stande with the prosit of the common weale. Neque cnim liberÛ id vobis permitter Philippus. Li. Phillip wil not suffer you to doe herein as you wil your selfe. Arma permittit populis. Lucan. Permisit Deus. Plin. Permittere maribus fœminas. Colu. To put the females to the males. Equo permittere habenas. Tibul. To let the horse haue the bridle. Permittere aliquid iracundiæ alicuius. Cicer. To beare with one in a thing because he is angrie. Permittere omnia iudicio alterius. Tere. To put himselfe to ones iudgement, and suffer the whole matter to bee tryed by him. Facere coniecturam iudicibus ipsis permittam. Cic. I will commit to the indges themselues to be coniectured. Inimicitias cum aliquo susceptas Reip. permittere. Cicer. For the common weales sake to giue ouer the enmitie that he hath with one. Qui eandem licentiam scribendi sibi permitti volunt. Cice. Quæ patria hunc permittit morem? Virg. Tocum negotium alicui permittere, Cicer. To commit the whole matter to one. Omnia alicui permittere. Cicer. To put al into ones hands to do as he will. Porestatem alicui permittere. Ci. To giue one leaue or authoritie. Vendendi potestas lege permittitur. Cic. Committere fidei alicuius, & Permittere potestati aliquem. Cicero. Precibus alicuius permittere aliquid. Sta. At the contemplation of ones praiers to graunte. Permittere vela ventis. Quintil. To take the sea: to aduenture into the sea. Sententijs iudicum vitam alicuius permittere. Cice. Permittitur, pen. corr. Impersonale. Plini. Si coniectare permittitur.

I. Lit. (very rare): fenestellae permittant columbas ad introitum exitumque, Pall. 1, 24, 1. —

II. Transf., to let go, let loose: equos permittunt in hostem, i. e. ride at full speed, Liv. 3, 61: equum concitatum ad hostium aciem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 162, 3: se incautius in hostem, i. e. to rush upon, Hirt. B. G. 8, 48: multi ex summo se permitterent, sprang down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 162, 5: gregem campo, to turn out into, Nemes. Ecl. 7.—Mid., to spread, extend, reach: odor possit permitti longius, spreads farther, Lucr 4, 688: deserta regio ad Arimphaeos usque permittitur, extends, Mel. 1, 19, 20.—

2. In partic.

a. To send away, export: caseos trans maria, Col. 7, 8, 6.—

b. To let fly, cast, hurl, throw, so as to reach the mark: saxum permittit in hostem, Ov. M. 12, 282; 14, 182: longius tela, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9: quācumque datur permittere visus, to direct, cast, Sil. 3, 534.—

B. Trop.

1. To let loose, let go (rare): tribunatum, to make free use of, exercise without reserve, Liv. 2, 56: se ad aliquam rem, to strive after a thing, Gell. 6, 16, 1: habenas equo, Tib. 4, 1, 92.—

2. To give up, leave, intrust, surrender, commit (class.; syn.: committo, commendo): totum ei negotium permisi, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: permittitur infinita potestas, id. Agr. 2, 13, 33: aliquem judicum potestati, id. Font. 14, 40: alicui summam belli administrandi, Caes. B. C. 1, 36: fortunas suas fidei alicujus, id. B. G. 5, 3: alicui licentiam agendarum rerum, Sall. J. 103, 3: permissum ipsi erat, faceret, quod vellet, Liv. 24, 14: aliquem vitae, to give one his life, Luc. 7, 731: feminas maribus, Col. 6, 24: permittere se, to give up or surrender one's self: se suaque omnia in fidem atque potestatem populi Romani permittere, Caes. B. G. 2, 3, 2: se suaque omnia eorum potestati permittere, id. ib. 2, 31, 3; Liv. 36, 28: se in deditionem consulis, id. 8, 20; 40, 49—

3. To give leave, let, allow, suffer, grant, permit (class.; syn.: sino, patior): neque discessisset a me, nisi ego ei permisissem, Cic. Fam. 13, 71: tibi permitto respondere, ne, etc., id. N. D. 3, 1, 4: quis Antonio permisit, ut, etc., id. de Or. 2, 90, 366: ipsis judicibus conjecturam facere, id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, 22; Caes. B. C. 1, 50: ibi permisso, ut, etc., Liv. 6, 25; 34, 31: ut tuto transire permittatur, Sen. Ben. 4, 12, 2: permissus ut regnaret, Curt. 8, 12, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 368; Liv. 35, 20: non permittitur reprimere impetum, Sen. Ira, 1, 7, 4: si conjectare permittitur, Plin. 4, 14, 28, 99: permittere sibi, with a foll. object-clause, to allow or permit one's self, to venture to do a thing, Quint. 1, 4, 3.— So with acc.: nil non permittit mulier sibi, Juv 6, 457: permitto aliquid iracundiae tuae, to make allowance for, Cic. Sull. 16, 46: inimicitias sibi cum aliquo susceptas patribus conscriptis et temporibus rei publicae, to sacrifice them to the state of the country, id. Sest. 33, 72.—Hence, permis-sus, a, um, P. a.

A. Permitted; hence, subst.: permissum, i, n., a permission: utor permisso, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 45; Dig. 11, 7, 8; Inscr. Grut. 80, 13.—

B. Let go, Plaut. ap. Fest. p. 215 Müll.