I. Lit., to expose to public view (as a proposed new law, etc.), to make known, publish, promulgate (cf.: edico, pronuntio): promulgari leges dicuntur, cum primum in vulgus eduntur, quasi provulgari, Paul. ex Fest. p. 224 Müll.: “leges cum quae latae sunt, tum quae promulgatae fuerunt,” Cic. Sest. 25, 55: “legem,” id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1: “leges,” id. Phil. 1, 10, 25; 2, 42, 109; 5, 3, 7; Liv. 3, 9; Vulg. Num. 36, 6: “rogationem,” Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2; id. Sest. 10, 25; Sall. J. 40, 1: “res multos dies promulgata et cognita,” Cic. Fl. 7, 15: “proelia,” id. Mur. 14, 30: “dies fastos,” Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 17.—
II. Transf., in gen., to make known, to teach (very rare): “majores oculorum medicamentis aconitum misceri saluberrime promulgavere,” Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9.
