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ap-prŏbo (adp- , Fleck., Bait., Halm, Weissenb.; app- , Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
I. To assent to as good, to regard as good, to approve, to favor (freq. and class.; syn.: probo, laudo): id si non fama adprobat, * Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 12: “(populus Romanus) meum jus jurandum unā voce et consensu approbavit,Cic. Pis. 3, 7: “approbatā laudatāque Cottae sententiā,id. Sest. 34, 74: “aliquid magno clamore,id. Arch. 10, 24: “legiones clamore donum adprobantes,Liv. 7, 37; 7, 41: “consilium vehementer adprobare,Cic. ad Q. Fr. 3, 4 et saep.—So of the gods, to allow a thing to take place, to favor (cf. admitto, II. B.): “quod actum est di adprobent,Cic. Fam. 2, 15; 1, 9, 19: “musis omnibus adprobantibus,id. ib. 7, 23, 2; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 13.—
II. To show as being good and true, to make evident, to prove, demonstrate, confirm, establish: “hoc autem nihil attinet approbari,Cic. Inv. 1, 36 fin.: “innocentiam adprobare,Tac. A. 1, 44: “excusationem,id. Agr. 42.—With acc. and inf.: “vivere eos approbant,Plin. 9, 57, 83: “quo magis degenerāsse eum a civili more approbaret,Suet. Aug. 17: “Cajo talem et se et exercitum approbavit, ut, etc.,Suet. Galb. 6 al.
III. Aliquid alicui adprobare, to make good to one, to render acceptable, satisfactory: “opus manu factum regi adprobavit,Vitr. 9, 3: “prima castrorum rudimenta duci adprobavit,his first military duties he learned to the satisfaction of his commander, Tac. Agr. 5; Dig. 19, 2, 24; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 63.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 2.15
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.63
    • Cicero, For Archias, 10.24
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 3.7
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 34.74
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 17
    • Suetonius, Galba, 6
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 9.3
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.44
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 42
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 5
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.prol
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.57
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 41
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 37
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 1.36
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