dē-pendĕo, ēre
* V. a., to hang from or on, to hang down (not freq. till the Aug. period; not in Cic. and Caes.—for syn. cf.: pendeo, impendeo).
* Lit.: (anellus) unus ex uno,Lucr. 6, 915; cf.: sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus,Verg. A. 6, 301: dependente a cervicibus pugione,Suet. Galb. 11: dependent lychni laquearibus aureis,Verg. A. 1, 726: galea ramis,id. ib. 10, 836: parma laevo lacerto,id. ib. 11, 693: hasta umero,Quint. 11, 3, 130: serta tectis,Ov. M. 4, 760: cervina vellera lateri sinistro,id. ib. 6, 593: cui coma dependet,id. A. A. 1, 224: laqueo dependentem invenere,Liv. 42, 28 fin.: dependente brachio,Suet. Caes. 82; Ov. F. 3, 267: nec dependes nec propendes,i. e. weighest neither less nor more,Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 39.
* Trop.
* (Only in Ovid.) To be dependent on or wait for a thing: promissa tarda videntur, dependetque fides a veniente die,Ov. F. 3, 356.
* To be dependent on, to be governed by: ex horum (siderum) motibus fortunae populorum dependent,Sen. ad Marc. 18, 3.
* To depend on, be derived from: ex hoc malo dependet illud teterrimum vitium,id. Tranq. An. 12, 7: haec (membra) ex illis (elementis) dependent, illa et horum causae sunt et omnia,id. Ep. 95, 12.—Hence of etymol. dependence, i. e. to be derived: hujus et augurium dependet origine verbi (sc. augustus) Et quodcumque sua Juppiter auget ope, Ov. F. 1, 611.

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