(verb) : pătĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3 (scanned pătēfēcit, Lucr. 4, 320; and in
* Pass. pătēfīet, id. 6, 1001), pateo-facio, to make or lay open, to open, throw open (freq. and class.; syn.: pando, recludo, aperio).
* Lit.: iter,Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: patefacere et munire alicui aditum ad aliquid,id. Fam. 13, 78, 2: aures assentatoribus,id. Off. 1, 26, 91: portas,Liv. 2, 15: ordines, aciem,id. 28, 14: sulcum aratro,Ov. M. 3, 104: oculos,Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150: patefacta triumphis Janua. Prop. 1, 16, 1: iter per Alpes patefieri volebat,Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 27.—Poet.: postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem,i. e. had exposed to view, made visible,Ov. M. 9, 794.—Esp. (= άνοίγειν), to open the way, as a discoverer or pioneer; to be the first to find: vias,Caes. B G 7, 8: tellus in longas est patefacta vias,Tib. 1, 3, 36, cf.: patefactumque nostris legionibus Pontum,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 8, 21: loca,Nep. Hann. 3, 4.
* Trop., to disclose, expose, detect, bring to light: si hoc celatur, in metu; sin patefit, in probro sum,Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 6: odium suum in aliquem,Cic. Att. 11, 13, 2: patefacere verum et illustrare,id. Lael. 26, 97: rem,id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: patefacere et proferre aliquid,id. Mil. 37, 103: veritas patefacta,id. Sull. 16, 45; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122: Lentulus patefactus indiciis,convicted,id. Cat 3, 6, 15: qui ea proferenda et patefacienda curavit,id. Fl. 2, 5: se aliquid patefacturam,id. Ac. 2, 14, 44.

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