(v. a.P. a.) : culpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.culpa.
* To reproach or blame a person or thing as wrong or faulty, to censure, reprove, disapprove, condemn (syn.: reprehendo, vitupero; opp. laudo, probo, etc.; rare; mostly post-Aug.; never in the Cic. per.).
* With personal objects: quos modo culpavi,Ov. M. 10, 581: illum,Quint. 8, 4, 23: alium,id. 4, 2, 26: Neronem, Suet. Vit. Pers. —Pass.: laudatur (prodigus) ab his, culpatur ab illis,Hor. S. 1, 2, 11; 1, 4, 25; id. C. 4, 5, 20; Quint. 3, 6, 60: cum ob id culparetur,Suet. Caes. 72: sola est, in quā merito culpetur, pecuniae cupiditas,id. Vesp. 16 init.: num culpandus est qui coepit?Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 4; 9, 19, 8.
* Culpare aliquid, to declare something as a crime, to impute a fault to, to complain of, find fault with: arbore nunc aquas Culpante, etc.,Hor. C. 3, 1, 31; cf.: agrorum infecunditatem,Col. 1, prooem. § 1: culpantur frustra calami,Hor. S. 2, 3, 7.—Hence, culpā-tus, a, um, P. a.
* Absol.: culpetne probetne,Ov. M. 3, 256; 9, 524; Hor. S. 1, 4, 82.— Hence, subst.: culpanda, ōrum, n., things deserving censure: et probandorum et culpandorum ex iis confirmatio eosdem gradus habet,Quint. 5, 11, 7.
* Worthy of reproach, blamable: Paris,Verg. A. 2, 602: culpatius esse arbitror,Gell. 11, 7, 1.
* Corrupted, spoiled: vinum,Macr. S. 7, 6.

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