I.to promise (mostly ante- and post-class.; “not in Cic. or Cæs.): pro capite argentum,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 24: “operam suam alicui,” id. Mil. 3, 3, 6; Dig. 50, 12, 6. —Absol.: “ego te complures menses tuli Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem,” Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 36: sollicitando et pollicitando, id. And. 5, 4, 9: “largiundo atque pollicitando magis incendere,” Sall. C. 38, 1; id. J. 8, 1.
pollĭcĭtor , ātus, 1, v. freq. a. and n. polliceor,