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com-păro (conp- ), āvi, ātum, 1 (old form conparassit = comparaverit, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 19), v. a.
I. To prepare something with zeal, care, etc., to make ready, to set in order, furnish, provide, etc. (class.)
(γ). With inf.: “urere tecta,Ov. Tr. 2, 267: “an ita me comparem, Non perpeti, etc.,place myself in a condition, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 2.—
B. Trop. of the arrangements of nature, of civil life, of manners, customs, etc., to arrange, appoint, ordain, establish; esp. in the pass. impers.: “ita quoique est in aetate hominum conparatum,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 5; cf. Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 94 Fleck.; Liv. 3, 68, 10: “more majorum comparatum est,Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153; cf.: “ita comparatum more majorum erat, ne, etc.,Liv. 39, 29, 5: “est ita natura comparatum ut, etc.,Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 5: “praetores, ut considerate fieret, comparaverunt,Cic. Quint. 16, 51; so Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23; Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 7: “jam hoc prope iniquissime comparatum est, quod in morbis, etc.,Cic. Clu. 21, 57: “eis utendum censeo quae legibus conparata sunt,Sall. C. 51, 8.—So rarely of persons: “sic fuimus semper comparati, ut, etc.,Cic. de Or. 3, 9, 32.—
II. To procure what one does not yet possess or what is not yet in existence, to procure, get, purchase, obtain, prepare, make, collect.
B. Trop.: sex (tribunos) ad intercessionem comparavere, brought or gained them over to their side, Liv. 4, 48, 11.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.11.3
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    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 67.191
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    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 47
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    • Cornelius Nepos, Agesilaus, 2.4
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    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.19.5
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 45.5
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 29
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 34.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 35
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 32, 28.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 68.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 28, 13.1
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    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.20
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 1.1
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.9.3
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    • Cicero, De Inventione, 1.1
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