(v. a.P. a.) : ap-păro (adp-, Ritschl, Fleck., Bait.; app-, Lachm., Kayser, Weissenb., Halm), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
* To prepare or make ready for something (esp. with effort, care, expense), to put in order, provide, furnish, equip, etc. (freq. and class.).
* Lit.: alicui prandium adparare,Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 61: cenam adparare, Ter Heaut. 1, 1, 74: convivium,id. Ad. 5, 9, 8: ornare et apparare convivium,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20; * Hor. Epod. 2, 48; Suet. Claud. 33; cf. id. Caes. 26: nuptias,Ter. And. 3, 2, 34; so id. Phorm. 4, 4, 20: bellum apparare,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 35: ludos magnificentissimos,id. Q. Fr. 3, 8 (cf. apparatus, II. B.): iter ad caedem faciendam,id. Mil. 10, 28: aggerem,Caes. B. G. 7, 17: bellum armaque vi summā,Liv. 4, 1; 6, 21.—With ad: ad hostes bellum apparatur,Liv. 7, 7.— With in: in Sestium adparabantur crimina,Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2, 3, 6.
* Trop.: nunc hoc consilium capio et hanc fabricam adparo,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 139: ut tibi auxilium adparetur,id. Ep 3, 2, 18.—Constr. with inf. as object: delinire adparas,Plaut. As. 2, 4, 28: meam exscindere gentem apparat,Stat. Th. 4, 670: traicere ex Siciliā,Suet. Aug. 47.—Absol. (cf Ruhnk. Dict. ad Ter. And. 1, 5, 19; Corte ad Sall. C. 6, 5, Bremi ad Nep. Thras. 2, 2): dum adparatur,Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 35: cum in apparando esset occupatus,Nep. Hann. 7, 1.—With ut: ut eriperes, adparabas,Plaut. Aul. 5, 18.—Se apparare with inf. in Plaut.: qui sese parere adparent legibus,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 11.—Hence, appărā-tus (adp-), a, um, P. a., pr. prepared; hence
* Of persons, prepared, ready: adparatus sum, ut videtis,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 10: adparatus et meditatus ad causam accedo,Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 12.
* Of things, well supplied, furnished with every thing: domus omnibus instructior rebus et apparatior,Cic. Inv. 1, 34.—Hence, magnificent, splendid, sumptuous (cf. apparatus, II. B.): ludi apparatissimi et magnificentissimi,Cic. Sest. 54: apparatis accipere epulis,Liv. 23, 4 Drak.: apparatissimae epulae,Sen. Ep. 83: apparatissimum funus,Suet. Ner. 9: munus apparatissimum largissimumque, id. Tit. 7.—Trop., of discourse, too studied, far-felched, labored: ut non apparata oratio esse videatur, Auct. ad Her. 1, 7; so, verba apparata,id. ib. (cf. apparatio).— Adv.: appărātē (adp-), sumptuously: et edit et bibit opipare sane et adparate,Cic. Att. 13, 52: ludi Romani scaenici eo anno magnifice apparateque facti (sunt),Liv. 31, 4.—Comp.: Potes apparatius cenare apud multos; nusquam hilarius,Plin. Ep. 1, 15.

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