dē-posco, pŏposci, 3
* V. a., to demand, require, request earnestly (freq. and class.).
* In gen.: unum ab omnibus sociis et civibus ad id bellum imperatorem deposci atque expeti,Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5; cf. id. 15, 44: id non modo non recusem, sed etiam appetam atque deposcam,id. Phil. 3, 13, 33; so opp. recusare,id. Fl. 38 fin.: sibi naves,Caes. B. C. 1, 56, 3: pugnam,Suet. Oth. 9; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 1; 2, 1, 3: pericula (opp. detrectare),Tac. Agr. 11 et saep. —Absol.: de proelio cogitandum, sicut semper depoposcimus,Caes. B. C. 3, 85 fin.: omnibus pollicitationibus deposcunt, qui belli initium faciant,id. B. G. 7, 1, 5.
* In partic.
* To demand, request for one's self the performance of any duty or business: sibi id muneris,Caes. B. C. 1, 57: tibi partis istas,Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 45: primas sibi partes,Suet. Calig. 56: illam sibi officiosam provinciam,Cic. Sull. 18 fin.; cf.: consulatum sibi,Suet. Aug. 26: sibi has urbanas insidias caedis atque incendiorum,Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 6: coloniam tutandam,Suet. Vit. 1.
* To demand a person, in order to bring him to punishment: aliquem ad mortem,Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 5; cf.: aliquem ad supplicium,Hirt. B. G. 8, 38, 3: aliquem ad poenam,Suet. Tit. 6: aliquem morti,Tac. A. 1, 23: ad ducem ipsum in poenam foederis rupti deposcendum,Liv. 21, 6: auctorem culpae,id. 21, 10; cf. Hannibalem,Just. 32, 4, 8: ausum Talia deposcunt,Ov. M. 1, 200; Luc. 5, 296 et saep.: altera me deposcere putabatur, to demand my death, Cic. post red. in Sen. 13, 33.
* (Transf. from the gladiator's t. t.) To call out, challenge one to fight, Liv. 2, 49, 2; cf. hostes,Val. Fl. 5, 635.

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