Lewis Short
(verb) : pūblĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, publicus.
* To make public property, to seize and adjudge to the public use, to confiscate (class.; cf. proscribo): regnum Jubae,Caes. B. C. 2, 25: bona Cingetorigis,id. B. G. 5, 54; 7, 43: privata,Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: bona,id. Cat. 4, 4, 8: Ptolemaeum,id. Dom. 8, 20: censeo publicandas eorum pecunias,Sall. C. 51, 43; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; Liv. 3, 58; 29, 19; Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 13: aurarias,Tac. A. 6, 19.
* To show or tell to the people, to impart to the public, make public or common (freq. only in the post-Aug. period, not in Cic. or Caes.; cf. vulgo): Aventinum,i. e. to open for building,Liv. 3, 31, 1: bibliothecas Graecas et Latinas,to furnish for the use of the public, throw open to the public,Suet. Caes. 44; Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 115; Suet. Aug. 43.—With se, to let one's self be heard in public, to come before the public, Suet. Ner. 21: oratiunculam,to publish,Plin. Ep. 5, 13, 1: epistulas,id. ib. 1, 1, 1: librum,id. ib. 1, 5, 2: libellos,Suet. Caes. 56; id. Aug. 43.
* In partic.
* To make known, publish, reveal, disclose (very rare): reticenda,Just. 1, 7, 5; 2, 15, 17: dies fasti publicati,Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 17.
* Corpus publicare, to expose one's self to common use, prostitute one's self, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 22: publicata pudicitia,Tac. G. 19; Quint. 7, 9, 4.
* To lay waste, destroy, make a ruin of: domus,Vulg. 1 Esdr. 6, 11; id. Dan. 2, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary