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pătĕfăcĭo , fēci, factum, 3 (scanned pătēfēcit, Lucr. 4, 320; and in
I.pass. pătēfīet, id. 6, 1001), v. a. pateo-facio, to make or lay open, to open, throw open (freq. and class.; syn.: pando, recludo, aperio).
I. Lit.: “iter,Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: “patefacere et munire alicui aditum ad aliquid,id. Fam. 13, 78, 2: “aures assentatoribus,id. Off. 1, 26, 91: “portas,Liv. 2, 15: “ordines, aciem,id. 28, 14: “sulcum aratro,Ov. M. 3, 104: “oculos,Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150: patefacta triumphis Janua. Prop. 1, 16, 1: “iter per Alpes patefieri volebat,Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 27.—Poet.: “postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem,” i. e. had exposed to view, made visible, Ov. M. 9, 794.—Esp. (= άνοίγειν), to open the way, as a discoverer or pioneer; to be the first to find: “vias,Caes. B G 7, 8: “tellus in longas est patefacta vias,Tib. 1, 3, 36, cf.: “patefactumque nostris legionibus Pontum,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 8, 21: “loca,Nep. Hann. 3, 4.—
II. Trop., to disclose, expose, detect, bring to light: si hoc celatur, in metu; “sin patefit, in probro sum,Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 6: “odium suum in aliquem,Cic. Att. 11, 13, 2: “patefacere verum et illustrare,id. Lael. 26, 97: “rem,id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5: “patefacere et proferre aliquid,id. Mil. 37, 103: “veritas patefacta,id. Sull. 16, 45; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122: “Lentulus patefactus indiciis,convicted, id. Cat 3, 6, 15: “qui ea proferenda et patefacienda curavit,id. Fl. 2, 5: “se aliquid patefacturam,id. Ac. 2, 14, 44.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.78.2
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 11.13.2
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 3.1
    • Cicero, On Pompey's Command, 8.21
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 16.45
    • Cicero, For Milo, 37.103
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.104
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.794
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.320
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.1001
    • Cornelius Nepos, Hannibal, 3.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 28, 14
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 15
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.56
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 26
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.26
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