LAT
ambigo
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(verb) : amb-ĭgo, ĕre (
* Perf. tense not used), ago.
* Lit., to go about or around: ambigens patriam et declinans,Tac. A. 6, 15 fin.
* Trop., to wander about; to waver, hesitate, be undecided, to doubt, be in suspense (syn. dubito; class., but mostly in prose).—In this sense in Cic. either impers. or pass.
* Impers.: Quale quid sit, ambigitur,is uncertain,Cic. de Or. 2, 26: omnis res eandem habet naturam ambigendi, de quā disceptari potest,i. e. admits of arguments for and against,id. ib. 3, 29: ambigitur, quotiens uter utro sit prior,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 55: de nomine ipso ambigi video,Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 10: adspici aliquando eam volucrem, non ambigitur,it cannot be doubted,Tac. A. 6, 28.
* Transf.
* Pass.: ambigitur status, in quo etc.,Lucr. 3, 1074: in eo jure, quod ambigitur inter peritissimos,of which there is a doubt,Cic. de Or. 1, 57; 2, 24: in eis causis, quae propter scriptum ambiguntur,id. ib. 2, 26.
* To argue, debate about something: ut inter eos, qui ambigunt, conveniat, quid sit id, de quo agatur,Cic. Fin. 2, 2: ambigere de vero,id. Or. 36.
* To contend, dispute, wrangle, etc.: vicini nostri ambigunt de finibus, * Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 90: ambigunt agnati cum eo, qui est heres,Cic. Inv. 2, 42: de fundo,id. Caecin. 8: de hereditate,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45: de regno,Liv. 40, 15.
* Perf. tense not used), ago.
* Lit., to go about or around: ambigens patriam et declinans,Tac. A. 6, 15 fin.
* Trop., to wander about; to waver, hesitate, be undecided, to doubt, be in suspense (syn. dubito; class., but mostly in prose).—In this sense in Cic. either impers. or pass.
* Impers.: Quale quid sit, ambigitur,is uncertain,Cic. de Or. 2, 26: omnis res eandem habet naturam ambigendi, de quā disceptari potest,i. e. admits of arguments for and against,id. ib. 3, 29: ambigitur, quotiens uter utro sit prior,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 55: de nomine ipso ambigi video,Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 10: adspici aliquando eam volucrem, non ambigitur,it cannot be doubted,Tac. A. 6, 28.
* Transf.
* Pass.: ambigitur status, in quo etc.,Lucr. 3, 1074: in eo jure, quod ambigitur inter peritissimos,of which there is a doubt,Cic. de Or. 1, 57; 2, 24: in eis causis, quae propter scriptum ambiguntur,id. ib. 2, 26.
* To argue, debate about something: ut inter eos, qui ambigunt, conveniat, quid sit id, de quo agatur,Cic. Fin. 2, 2: ambigere de vero,id. Or. 36.
* To contend, dispute, wrangle, etc.: vicini nostri ambigunt de finibus, * Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 90: ambigunt agnati cum eo, qui est heres,Cic. Inv. 2, 42: de fundo,id. Caecin. 8: de hereditate,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45: de regno,Liv. 40, 15.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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