Público, públicas, pen. cor. publicâre. Pli. To publish: to make knowne: to cause to be openly cryed: to make common: to cõfiscate: to set abrode as one doth a booke. To abandon in cõmou as harlots doe.Publicare matrimonij reticÊda. Iust. To publish or declare abroade. Publicare hominem, Populo communem facere. Suet. Agros publicare. Ci. Bona publicare. Ci. To confiscate goods to the vse of the cõmon weale.Librum publicare. Pli. iun. To set forth a booke.Fortunam suam publicare. Sen. To communicate his fortune to al men and make them partakers of it.Se publicare. Sueton. To shew himselfe openly that the people may see him. vt, Non cessauit identidem se publicare. Sueron. Publicat vulgò corpus suum meretrix. Plautus. A strumpet abandoneth hir bodie to the dishonest imbracing of lewd persons. Publicare crimen.Liu.To lay or turne the fault vpon all in generally.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pūblĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [publicus]. I.To make public property, to seize and adjudge to the public use, to confiscate (class.; cf. proscribo): regnum Jubae, Caes. B. C. 2, 25: bona Cingetorigis, id. B. G. 5, 54; 7, 43: privata, Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: bona, id. Cat. 4, 4, 8: Ptolemaeum, id. Dom. 8, 20: censeo publicandas eorum pecunias, Sall. C. 51, 43; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; Liv. 3, 58; 29, 19; Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 13: aurarias, Tac. A. 6, 19.—II.To show or tell to the people, to impart to the public, make public or common (freq. only in the post-Aug. period, not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. vulgo): Aventinum, i. e.
to open for building
, Liv. 3, 31, 1: bibliothecas Graecas et Latinas,
to furnish for the use of the public
,
throw open to the public
, Suet. Caes. 44; Plin. 7, 30, 31, 115; Suet. Aug. 43.—With se, to let one's self be heard in public, to come before the public, Suet. Ner. 21: oratiunculam,
to publish
, Plin. Ep. 5, 13, 1: epistulas, id. ib. 1, 1, 1: librum, id. ib. 1, 5, 2: libellos, Suet. Caes. 56; id. Aug. 43.—B. In partic. 1.To make known, publish, reveal, disclose (very rare): reticenda, Just. 1, 7, 5; 2, 15, 17: dies fasti publicati, Plin. 33, 1, 6, 17.—2. Corpus publicare, to expose one's self to common use, prostitute one's self, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 22: publicata pudicitia, Tac. G. 19; Quint. 7, 9, 4.—3.To lay waste, destroy, make a ruin of: domus, Vulg. 1 Esdr. 6, 11; id. Dan. 2, 5.