I.v. a., to hang from or on, to hang down (not freq. till the Aug. period; not in Cic. and Caes.—for syn. cf.: pendeo, impendeo).
I. Lit.: “(anellus) unus ex uno,” Lucr. 6, 915; cf.: “sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus,” Verg. A. 6, 301: “dependente a cervicibus pugione,” Suet. Galb. 11: “dependent lychni laquearibus aureis,” Verg. A. 1, 726: “galea ramis,” id. ib. 10, 836: “parma laevo lacerto,” id. ib. 11, 693: “hasta umero,” Quint. 11, 3, 130: “serta tectis,” Ov. M. 4, 760: “cervina vellera lateri sinistro,” id. ib. 6, 593: “cui coma dependet,” id. A. A. 1, 224: “laqueo dependentem invenere,” Liv. 42, 28 fin.: “dependente brachio,” Suet. Caes. 82; Ov. F. 3, 267: “nec dependes nec propendes,” i. e. weighest neither less nor more, Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 39.—
II. Trop.
A. (Only in Ovid.) To be dependent on or wait for a thing: “promissa tarda videntur, dependetque fides a veniente die,” Ov. F. 3, 356.—
B. To be dependent on, to be governed by: “ex horum (siderum) motibus fortunae populorum dependent,” Sen. ad Marc. 18, 3.—
C. To depend on, be derived from: “ex hoc malo dependet illud teterrimum vitium,” id. Tranq. An. 12, 7: “haec (membra) ex illis (elementis) dependent, illa et horum causae sunt et omnia,” id. Ep. 95, 12.—Hence of etymol. dependence, i. e. to be derived: hujus et augurium dependet origine verbi (sc. augustus) Et quodcumque sua Juppiter auget ope, Ov. F. 1, 611.