To prohibite to forbid: to let: to keepe vnder or short: to keepe in. Facias licet, nemo prohibet. Cic. You maye doe it, no man letteth you. Prohiberi minaciter. Liu, With threarning words to forbid. Prohibere & impediri. Cic. Coram aliquid facere prohiberi. Cic. Prohibentur adire ad filios suos. Cic. Lachrymæ dolorque prohibent loqui. Ouidius. Hee can not speake for weeping and heauinesse. Prohibere peregrinos vti vrbibus. Cic. Potuisti prohibere ne fieret. Cic. Nihil prohibet quominus mense Iulio veruacta subigantur Colum. There is no let, but that in Julie. &c. -nemo prohiber, necvetat Quin quod, &c. Plaut. Accusatiuo & ablatiuo cum præpositione. Cæs. Cæsarem certiorem faciunt, sese nõ facilè ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere. That they with great payne are scant able to defend the towne from the assault of enemles. Prohibere commeatu, aqua, &c. Lentulus ad SenatÛ. To be kept from &c. Accessum prohibere, Vide ACCEDO. Accessus prohibet refugítque vitiles. Ouid. Aditum prohibere, Vide ADEO, adis. Prohibere operas aditu. Cic. To keepe the labouters from entring. Agricultura prohiberi, Cæs. To be let frõ tilling the groÛd. Calamitate prohibere. Cic. Prohibere conuitijs. Cæs. To keepe that one be not abused with reprochefull words. Cibo prohiberi & tecto. Cic. Detrimento aliquem prohibere. Author ad Heren. Dolorem dentium prohibet hæc herba. Plin. This hearbe keepeth from the toothache. Domo prohibere. Terent. To keepe one that he cannot enter into his house. Exitu prohibere. Ci. To keepe one that he cannot come out. Fuga prohibere. Cic. Aliquem ab iniuria prohibere, Salust. To saue one from iniurie and wrong. Ab insula procul prædones prohibere. Cic. Itinere prohibere. Cæs. To stop or let men to passe. Ludo inani prohibere animos instabiles. Virg. Motus & conatus alicuius prohibere. Cic. To stay the trouble and attempts that one indeuoureth. Nefas prohibere. Virg. Quum videretis nulla vi retineri, nullo periculo prohiberi posse, &c. Cic. A periculo Rempub. probibere. Cicer. To saue or keepe the common weale from danger. Potione prohibere per triduum. Col. Three dayes space to keepe from drinking. Aliquem prouincia prohibere. Plancus Ciceroni. To keepe one out of the proumce. A pugua prohibere. Cæs. Bacchum rixis prohibere. Hor. Sepultura aliquem prohibere. Author ad Heren. To let that one be not buried. Seruitio prohibere. Liu. Prohibete vobis vim meam. Plautus. Keepe you from mee that I do you no harme. Voce prohibere aliquem. Cicero. To let one that hee speake not. Vrbe prohibere aliquem. Ouid. Prohibere, datiuo & accusatiuo iunctum. Plaut. Vxorem prohibent mihi. They wil not let me haue a wife.

I. To hold back, keep in check, to restrain, hinder, prevent, avert, keep or ward off, debar (class.; cf.: inhibeo, arceo).

A. In gen.; usually constr. aliquem or aliquid, with abl.; alone or ab and abl.; with ut, ne, quominus, or an obj.-clause; also with simple acc.; less freq. with de, the dat., or gen.

1. With ab: quo illum ab illā prohibeas, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 103: prohibete a vobis vim meam, id. Capt. 4, 2, 24: praedones procul ab insulā Siciliā, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, 144: hostem a pugnā, Caes. B. G. 4, 34: aliquem a familiaritate, congressione, patrio jure et potestate, Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 46: vim hostium ab oppidis, Caes. B. G. 1, 11: se suosque ab injuriā, to restrain themselves, refrain from, id. ib. 2, 28 fin.: ita prohibendo a delictis magis quam vindicando exercitum brevi confirmavit, Sall. J. 45, 3; 22, 4. —

2. With de: vim de classe, Lucil. ap. Non 528, 10.—

3. With abl.: cum suis finibus eos prohibent, Caes. B. G. 1, 1: itinere exercitum, to impede its march, id. ib. 1, 10: hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque, id. ib. 1, 15.—With abl. without an object: non prohibere aquā profluente, Cic. Off. 1, 16, 52.—

4. With dat.: aliquem alicui, to withhold from one, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 7; cf.: aditum alicui, Auct. B. Afr. 31: captae prohibere nequiret Cum Poenos aquilae, could not prevent the Carthaginians from capturing the standard, Sil. 6, 27 (but the gen., Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26; Caes. B. C. 3, 44, depends on the acc. object of prohibere; v. 7 infra).—

5. With ut, ne, quominus; rarely with quin: dii prohibeant, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 151: qui tu id prohibere me potes, ne suspicer, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 50 Brix ad loc.: quod potuisti prohibere, ne fieret, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 33: ne lustrum perficeret, mors prohibuit P. Furi, Liv. 24, 43, 4: hiemem credo adhuc prohibuisse, quo minus, etc., Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1: prohibere quominus sumerent, non poterant, Hirt. B. G. 8, 34: si prohibere, quominus in unum coirent, non posset, Liv. 25, 35, 6: nec, quin erumperet, ubi vellet, prohiberi poterat, id. 26, 40, 4.—

6. With obj.-clause: qui peregrinos urbibus uti prohibent, Cic. Off. 3, 11, 47: qui Bibulum exire domo prohibuissent, id. Fam. 1, 9, 7: jam se ad prohibenda circumdari opera Aequi parabant, Liv. 3, 28, 7: prohibuit migrari, Veios, id. 5, 49, 8: prohibete jus de pecuniis dici, id. 6, 18, 14; 6, 20, 6: audeat Canuleius proloqui, se delectum haberi prohibiturum, Liv. 4, 2, 12; 25, 4, 4; 25, 14, 7: qui Cimbros intra fines suos ingredi prohibuerint, Caes. B. G. 2, 4; Verg. A. 6, 606.—

7. With simple acc.: Mars pater, ut tu morbos visos invisosque, viduertatem vastitudinemque ... prohibessis, defendas averruncesque, an old formula of prayer in Cato, R. R. 141: neque munitiones Caesaris prohibere poterat, Caes. B. G. 3, 44: motus conatusque alicujus prohibere, Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26: prohibenda maxime est ira in puniendo, id. Off. 1, 25, 89: quod uti prohibitum irem, quod in me esset, meo labori non parsi, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. parsi, p. 242 Müll.: prohibere comitia dicitur vitiare diem morbo, Fest. p. 236 ib.; Cato ap. Fest. l. l.: quod di prohibeant, which may the gods forbid or avert, Ter. And. 3, 3, 36; and in the same sense: dii mala prohibeant, id. Hec. 2, 1, 10; cf.: di, prohibete minas; di, talem avertite casum, Verg. A. 3, 265; and: deos quaeso, ut istaec prohibeant, Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 11.—

B. In partic., to forbid, prohibit a thing (syn.: interdico, veto): tu modo ne me prohibeas accipere, siquid det mihi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 89: nemo hic prohibet nec vetat, id. Curc. 1, 1, 33: lex recta imperans prohibensque contraria, Cic. N. D. 1, 14, 36: sed dii et homines prohibuere redemptos vivere Romanos, Liv. 5, 49, 1; Quint. 5, 10, 104; cf.: Athenis affectus movere per praeconem prohibebatur orator, the orator was forbidden, id. 6, 1, 7: prohibitis abstinere, Sen. Ep. 83, 18.—

II. To keep away from a thing for the sake of safety (cf. defendo, II.), to keep, preserve, defend, protect (rare but class.); with ab: a quo periculo prohibete rem publicam, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19: adultam virginem ab armatorum impetu, id. Brut. 96, 330.—With abl.: haec damna multa mulierum Me uxore prohibent, keep me from a wife, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 105: magnum civium numerum calamitate prohibere, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18: tenuiores injuriā, id. Off. 2, 12, 31: ad prohibendam populationibus Campaniam, Liv. 22, 14, 2.—With double acc.: id te Juppiter Prohibessit, from that may Jupiter preserve you, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 11.