(verb) : dē-pendo, di, sum, 3, and n.
* Act. (orig., to weigh out; hence), to pay (rare but class.).
* Lit.: mi abjurare certius est quam dependere,Cic. Att. 1, 8 fin.; Col. 5, 1, 8; Just. 22, 8, 8; Dig. 12, 6, 42 al.: dependendum tibi est, quod mihi pro illo spopondisti,Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 9: cf. Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 25.
* Transf., to spend, expend, lay out, bestow upon a thing (postAug.): plus in operis servorum avocandis quam in pretio rerum hujusmodi dependitur,Col. 11, 1, 20; incassum impenditur opera,id. 4, 22, 7: tempora Niliaco amori,Luc. 10, 80; cf.: caput felicibus armis,to give up, abandon,id. 8, 101.

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