(v. a.P. a.) : ex-pĕto, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3, v. a. and n.
* Act.
* To long for, seek after, aspire to, desire, covet, wish a thing (freq. and class.; syn.: appeto, affecto, cupio, concupisco, aveo, gestio, volo, opto, desidero, requiro).
* Intr. (perh. only ante-class.; cf. Liv. 1, 22, 7 Weisenb. ad loc.).
* To reach, attain to any thing; with respect to time, to outlast: malo si quid bene facias, id beneficium interit: Bono si quid male facias, aetatem expetit,Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 23.— Hence, expĕtendus, a, um, P. a., desirable, excellent: forma expetunda mulier,Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 60.
* With ut and subj.: fatebor et fuisse me et Sejano amicum et ut essem expetisse,Tac. A. 6, 8.
* Absol.: ne legaretur A. Gabinius Cn. Pompeio expetenti ac postulanti,requesting,Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57.—*
* To light upon, fall upon, befall a person.
* With in aliquem: delictum suum suamque culpam expetere in mortalem,Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 33: illius ira et maledicta in hanc,id. ib. 3, 2, 15: omnes clades hujus belli in eum, Tullus ap. Liv. 1, 22, 7: quojus ego hodie in tergum faxo ista expetant mendacia,Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 42.
* Absol., to fall out, happen, occur, result: nequiter paene expetivit prima parasitatio,Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 22 Lamb. (al. expedivit): in servitute expetunt multa iniqua,befall,id. ib. 1, 1, 20; so, eadem in vigilanti expetunt,id. Mil. 2, 4, 40 (not vigilantes, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).

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