I.to bring into a state of peace and quietness, to make peaceful, to quiet, pacify, subdue, soothe (class.; cf.: pacifico, placo).
I. Lit.: “pacare Amanum,” Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 8: “omnem Galliam,” Caes. B. C. 1, 7: “qui nuper pacati erant,” id. B. G. 1, 16: “civitates,” id. ib. 7, 65: “Hispanias,” id. B. C. 1, 85: “bimarem Isthmon,” Ov. M. 7, 405: “regiones,” Hirt. B. Alex. 26: “Asiam,” Just. 38, 7, 2: “Erymanthi nemora,” Verg. A. 6, 803: MARE A PRAEDONIBVS, Monum. Ancyr. fin. ap. Grut. 233; Ov. F. 2, 18.—
II. Transf., of things as objects: “incultae pacantur vomere silvae,” are subdued, tilled, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 45: “et pacare metu silvas,” Manil. 4, 182: “saltus remotos pacabat cornu,” Stat. Th. 4, 250: “incertos animi aestus,” to quiet, Claud. IV. Cons. Honor. 225; cf. “feras,” to tame, Aus. Epigr. 1, 19: “dolorem,” id. Idyll. 6, 100.—Hence, pācā-tus , a, um, P. a., pacified, quieted, peaceful, quiet, calm, tranquil, undisturbed (opp. hostilis; class.).
A. Lit.: “pacatae tranquillaeque civitates,” Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30: “in provinciā pacatissimā,” id. Lig. 2, 4: “pacatissima et quietissima pars,” Caes. B. G. 5, 24: “nec hospitale quicquam pacatumve,” Liv. 21, 20: “pacato agmine transire,” id. 40, 47: “pacati status aëris,” Lucr. 3, 292: “pacata posse omnia mente tueri,” Lucr. 5, 1203: “mare,” Hor. C. 4, 5, 19: “vultus,” Ov. F. 1, 3: “pacatus mitisque adsis,” id. M. 431: “coloni,” Manil. 4, 141.—As subst.: pācātum , i, n., a friendly country: “vagi milites in pacato,” Liv. 8, 34: “ex pacatis praedas agere,” i. e. from countries at peace with Rome, Sall. J. 32, 3: “qui medius inter pacata et hostilia fuit, Danubius et Rhenus,” Sen. Q. N. 6, 7, 1.—
B. Trop.: “oratio pacatior,” Cic. Brut. 31, 121: “cujus ne pacatam quidem nequitiam quisquam ferre posset,” id. Phil. 5, 9, 24.—And in the neutr. as subst.: “nec diu in pacato mansit gens,” on friendly terms, Liv. 23, 27, 9.—Hence, adv.: pācātē , peaceably, quietly (post-Aug.).—Comp.: “pacatius ad reliqua secessimus,” Petr. 10; Aug. Ep. 111.—Sup.: “pacatissime et commodissime,” Aug. Soliloq. 2, 7.
