I.an awaiting, expecting, expectation (very freq. and class.; in sing. and plur.).
(α).
With gen. obj.: “si spes est exspectatio boni, mali exspectationem esse necesse est metum,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80: “harum rerum,” id. Rab. Perd. 5, 16: “acerbior reliquorum,” id. Brut. 76, 266; cf. “poenarum,” Quint. 12, 1, 7: “tanta vel animi vel ingenii tui, ut, etc.,” Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2; cf.: “sustines non parvam exspectationem imitandae industriae nostrae,” id. Off. 3, 2, 6: “majorem exspectationem mei faciam quam, etc.,” id. Ac. 2, 4, 10; cf.: “Varronis sermo facit exspectationem Caesaris,” id. Att. 3, 15, 3: “quotidiana rerum novarum,” id. ib. 3, 14, 2: “maximi belli,” id. Fam. 15, 4, 5: “rerum,” Caes. B. C. 1, 21 fin.: “ejus rei,” id. ib. 3, 19, 4: “desiderii,” Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 205: “nostri consilii,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 9, 1: “audiendi,” Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 18 et saep. —In plur.: “crebras exspectationes nobis tui commoves,” Cic. Att. 1, 4, 1.—
(β).
With de: “quantam tu mihi moves exspectationem de sermone Bibuli!” Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1: “plenus sum exspectatione de Pompeio,” id. ib. 3, 14, 1.—
(γ).
With a rel.-clause: “eo me major exspectatio tenet, quibusnam rationibus ea tanta vis comparetur,” Cic. de Or. 2, 18, 74. —In plur.: “nunc has exspectationes habemus duas: unam, etc., alteram, etc.,” Cic. Att. 7, 16, 2.—
(δ).
Absol.: “ne sis in exspectatione,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 64: “pendeo animi exspectatione Corfiniensi, in qua de salute rei publicae decernitur,” Cic. Att. 8, 5, 2: “nolo plebem Romanam obscura spe et caeca exspectatione pendere,” id. Agr. 2, 25, 66; cf.: “omnia spe et exspectatione laudata,” id. Or. 30, 107: “aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere,” id. Tusc. 1, 17, 39: “permagnam exspectationem imponere orationi,” id. Rep. 1, 23 fin.: “M'. Curii causa nuper qua exspectatione defensa est?” id. de Or. 1, 39, 180: “praeter exspectationem,” unexpectedly, id. de Or. 2, 70, 284: “supra exspectationem,” Quint. 3, 7, 16: “exspectatione minor,” id. 4, 1, 39: “contra exspectationem omnium,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 1.—In plur.: “exspectationibus decipiendis,” Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 289. —
II. The object of expectation or longing: “gentium,” Vulg. Gen. 49, 10: “Israel,” id. Jer. 17, 13: “pistorum laetitia,” id. Prov. 10, 28.
