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fătĕor, fassus, 2 (archaic
* Inf. praes. faterier, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 148), v. dep. a. [from the root ΦΑ, φάω, fari], to confess, own, grant, acknowledge.
* Prop. (freq. and class.; syn.: confiteor, profiteor); construed for the most part with acc. and inf. as object; rarely with the acc., de, or absol.
* With acc.: si verum mihi eritis fassae, vinclis exsolvemini,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 10: so, verum fateri,Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 2; Curt. 6, 3: ut verius fatear,Eum. Grat. Act. 1: quid fatebor?Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 3; 2, 2, 67: multi in tormentis mori maluerunt falsum fatendo quam infitiando dolere,Cic. Part. 14, 50: peccatum, culpam,Ov. Tr. 1, 315; Hor. S. 2, 4, 4: delicta,Ov. M. 4, 685: mores suos,Quint. 10, 1, 100: sensus suos,Ov. H. 21, 204: paupertatem,id. M. 8, 634 et saep.—Prov.: fatetur facinus, si quis judicium fugit,Pub. Syr. 174 Rib.
* Transf.
* With de: cum de facto turpi aliquo aut inutili aut utroque fateatur,Cic. Inv. 2, 26, 77.
* Absol.: ita libenter confitetur, ut non solum fateri, sed etiam profiteri videatur,Cic. Caecin. 9, 24: Me. Est tibi nomen Menaechmo? M. Fateor, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 48: leno sum, fateor,Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 34: non potest sine malo fateri,id. Eun. 4, 4, 47: qui a Naevio vel sumpsisti multa, si fateris, vel, si negas, surripuisti,Cic. Brut. 19, 76; cf. Quint. 5, 12, 13: nulline faterier audes?Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 148: in fatendo lenis et summissa (vox),Quint. 11, 3, 63: ad fatendum impulsus,id. 5, 13, 46: da veniam fasso,Ov. P. 4, 2, 23; parenthetically: fateor, Plaut. Aul. 4.4, 16: fatebor enim,Verg. E. 1, 31; id. A. 4, 20; Ov. M. 9, 362 al.
* In gen., to discover, show, indicate, manifest (rare; not in Cic.): Laterensis nostri et fidem et animum singularem in rem publicam semper fatebor, bear witness to, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 4; Quint. 1, 6, 23: innocentem fuisse patrem fatetur,id. 7, 1, 56; 1, 10, 37: utque sedet vultu fassus Telamonius iram,Ov. Tr. 2, 525: patinarum calore pisces vitalem motum fateri,Plin. 9, 57, 83, § 177: mors sola fatetur, Quantula sint hominum corpuscula,Juv. 10, 172; 15, 132: properabo fateri, quae, etc.,id. 3, 59: Belus amnis non nisi refuso mari harenas fatetur,Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 190.
* In gram. lang.: fatendi modus,the indicative,Quint. 1, 6, 7; Varr. L. L. 8, 5, 8.!*?
* In pass. signif.: hunc (agrum) excipere nominatim, qui publicus esse fateatur,Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57 (dub.).
* Impers.: vulgo fatebatur, utique minorem eum legasse,Dig. 30, 1, 39, § 6.
* Inf. praes. faterier, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 148), v. dep. a. [from the root ΦΑ, φάω, fari], to confess, own, grant, acknowledge.
* Prop. (freq. and class.; syn.: confiteor, profiteor); construed for the most part with acc. and inf. as object; rarely with the acc., de, or absol.
* With acc.: si verum mihi eritis fassae, vinclis exsolvemini,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 10: so, verum fateri,Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 2; Curt. 6, 3: ut verius fatear,Eum. Grat. Act. 1: quid fatebor?Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 3; 2, 2, 67: multi in tormentis mori maluerunt falsum fatendo quam infitiando dolere,Cic. Part. 14, 50: peccatum, culpam,Ov. Tr. 1, 315; Hor. S. 2, 4, 4: delicta,Ov. M. 4, 685: mores suos,Quint. 10, 1, 100: sensus suos,Ov. H. 21, 204: paupertatem,id. M. 8, 634 et saep.—Prov.: fatetur facinus, si quis judicium fugit,Pub. Syr. 174 Rib.
* Transf.
* With de: cum de facto turpi aliquo aut inutili aut utroque fateatur,Cic. Inv. 2, 26, 77.
* Absol.: ita libenter confitetur, ut non solum fateri, sed etiam profiteri videatur,Cic. Caecin. 9, 24: Me. Est tibi nomen Menaechmo? M. Fateor, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 48: leno sum, fateor,Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 34: non potest sine malo fateri,id. Eun. 4, 4, 47: qui a Naevio vel sumpsisti multa, si fateris, vel, si negas, surripuisti,Cic. Brut. 19, 76; cf. Quint. 5, 12, 13: nulline faterier audes?Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 148: in fatendo lenis et summissa (vox),Quint. 11, 3, 63: ad fatendum impulsus,id. 5, 13, 46: da veniam fasso,Ov. P. 4, 2, 23; parenthetically: fateor, Plaut. Aul. 4.4, 16: fatebor enim,Verg. E. 1, 31; id. A. 4, 20; Ov. M. 9, 362 al.
* In gen., to discover, show, indicate, manifest (rare; not in Cic.): Laterensis nostri et fidem et animum singularem in rem publicam semper fatebor, bear witness to, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 4; Quint. 1, 6, 23: innocentem fuisse patrem fatetur,id. 7, 1, 56; 1, 10, 37: utque sedet vultu fassus Telamonius iram,Ov. Tr. 2, 525: patinarum calore pisces vitalem motum fateri,Plin. 9, 57, 83, § 177: mors sola fatetur, Quantula sint hominum corpuscula,Juv. 10, 172; 15, 132: properabo fateri, quae, etc.,id. 3, 59: Belus amnis non nisi refuso mari harenas fatetur,Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 190.
* In gram. lang.: fatendi modus,the indicative,Quint. 1, 6, 7; Varr. L. L. 8, 5, 8.!*?
* In pass. signif.: hunc (agrum) excipere nominatim, qui publicus esse fateatur,Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57 (dub.).
* Impers.: vulgo fatebatur, utique minorem eum legasse,Dig. 30, 1, 39, § 6.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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