I.to fasten, make fast, fix; to drive in, sink in (syn.: figo, configo).
I. Lit.: pangere, figere; “unde plantae pangi dicuntur,” Fest. p. 213 Müll.: “clavum,” Liv. 7, 3; v. clavus: tonsillam pegi laevo in litore, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v tonsilla, p. 356 Müll.; Col. poët. 10, 252; Pall. 3, 9, 7.—
B. Transf.
1. To set, plant any thing: “ramulum,” Suet. Galb. 1: “vicena millia malleolorum,” Col. 3, 12, 3: lactucam id. 11, 3, 26: “taleam olearum,” id. 11, 2, 42; “hence, transf.: filios,” to beget children, Tert. Apol. 9 fin.—
2. To set or plant any thing with any thing: “ipse seram vites pangamque ex ordine colles,” Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 15: “vitiaria malleolis,” Col. 11, 2, 18.—
II. Trop.
A. Versus carmina or facta (like componere), to make, compose, write, record: hic vostrum panxit maxuma facta patrum, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34 (Epigr. v. 2 Vahl. p. 162; “but the verse: horrida Romuleum certamina pango duellum, is spurious): carmina,” Lucr. 4, 8: “versus de rerum naturā,” id. 1, 25: “aliquid Sophocleum,” Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 3: ἀνέκδοτα, id. Att. 2, 6, 2: “poëmata,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 40: “chartas,” Mart. 11, 3, 7: “pangendi facultas,” Tac. A. 14, 16; Val. Max. 2, 1, 10: “de pangendo nihil fieri potest,” Cic. Att. 2, 14, 2.—
B. In gen., to make: “neque prima per artem temptamenta tui pepigi,” Verg. A. 8, 142.—
C. To fix, settle, determine, agree upon, agree, covenant, conclude, stipulate, contract (class., but only in the perf. forms; for the pres. and fut. pacisci was used; v. Quint. 1, 6, 10 sq.: paciscor facit et pepigi et pactus sum, Serv. ad. Verg. A. 8, 144; cf.: “paciscor, stipulor, despondeo): ducentis Philippis rem pepigi,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 38: “pactam rem habeto,” id. Poen. 5, 3, 38: “terminos, quos Socrates pepigerit (al. pegerit),” Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 56: “fines,” id. Pis. 16, 37.—With ne: “si quis pepigerit ne illo (medicamento) usquam postea uteretur,” Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92; so Tac. A. 13, 14: “pacem nobiscum pepigistis, ut, etc.,” Liv. 9, 11: “inducias pepigisse,” id. 27, 30: “non fuit armillas tanti pepigisse Sabinas,” Ov. Am. 1, 10, 49: “resumere libertatem occultis insidiis pepigerant,” Tac. A. 14, 31: “cui pretium pepigerat,” id. ib. 14, 42. —Freq. of a marriage contract, to promise, engage, pledge, etc.: habeon' pactam (Sororem)? Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 99; 5, 2, 59: “quod pepigere viri, pepigerunt ante parentes,” Cat. 62, 28: “te peto quam lecto pepigit Venus aurea nostro,” Ov. H. 16, 35: haec mihi se pepigit; “pater hanc tibi,” id. ib. 20, 157.
