(v. a.P. a.) : ex-opto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
* To wish or desire greatly, to long for a thing (class.).
* With acc.: quae majori parti pulcherrima videntur, ea maxime exoptant,Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: Samnitium adventum,Liv. 9, 25, 5: illum exoptavit potius?Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 3: aliquid,id. As. 3, 3, 133: omnes te oderunt, tibi pestem exoptant,wish you,Cic. Pis. 40, 96.
* With inf.-clause as object: multis de causis te exopto quam primum videre,Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 3: aemulari neglegentiam alicuius,Ter. And. prol. 20 (but not in Enn. Ann., where the better read. is laudarier optans, v. Vahl. p. 80).
* With ut: omnium hominum exopto ut fiam miserorum miserrimus,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 65: ut sempiternae laudi tibi sit iste tribunatus exopto,Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1.
* Absol.: neque nobis cupientibus atque exoptantibus fructus otii datus est,Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—Hence, exoptātus, a, um, P. a., greatly wished or desired, longed for: edepol me uxori exoptatum credo adventurum domum,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 22; id. Truc. 2, 6, 33; id. Capt. 5, 4, 9; id. Curc. 2, 3, 27: Antiphila, maxume animo exoptata meo,Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 28: ut exoptatum inimico nuntium primus adferret,Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: erit et tibi exoptatum optinget,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 20; id. As. 3, 3, 136.—Comp.: nihil exoptatius adventu meo,Cic. Att. 5, 15, 1.—Sup.: o mi ere exoptatissume,Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 65: gratulatio,Cic. Att. 4, 1, 2.—Adv. seems not to occur.

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