(verb) : causor (causs-), ātus, 1, and
* Trans. [causa].
* In the ante-class. per., to plead, dispute concerning a subject, to discuss it for and against, to debate a question, Pac., Att., and Afran. ap. Non. p. 89, 11 sq.
* Since the Aug. per. (in Ciceronian Lat. the word is not used), to give as a reason (a real, and more freq. a feigned one) for something, to make a pretext of, to pretend, to plead.
* With acc.: multa,Lucr. 1, 398: aves aut omina dira,Tib. 1, 3, 17 sq.: omina Visaque,Ov. M. 9, 768: nec freta pressurus tumidos causabitur Euros,id. Am. 1, 9, 13: stultus uterque locum immeritum causatur inique: in culpā est animus. Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 12: ipse valetudinem excusans, patre animi quoque ejus haud mirabilem interturbationem causante,Liv. 23, 8, 7; 3, 64, 2; 36, 10, 13: negotia,Tac. A. 1, 47 fin.: valetudinem,id. H. 3, 59 fin.: adversam patris voluntatem,id. A. 13, 44: diei tempus,Curt. 4, 16, 18 al.
* Absol.: causando nostros in longum ducis amores,Verg. E. 9, 56.
* With acc. and inf., Liv. 5, 15, 6; 28, 35, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 17; Suet. Ner. 49; Curt. 6, 5, 31; Gell. 18, 4, 9.
* With quod: causatus in utroque, quod hic non esset secutus, etc.,Suet. Calig. 23; Dig. 16, 3, 3.—(ε) With inf.: causari accipere rationes,to avoid by a pretence,Dig. 40, 7, 34, § 1.