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pūblĭco , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. publicus.
I. To make public property, to seize and adjudge to the public use, to confiscate (class.; cf. “proscribo): regnum Jubae,Caes. B. C. 2, 25: “bona Cingetorigis,id. B. G. 5, 54; 7, 43: “privata,Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57: “bona,id. Cat. 4, 4, 8: “Ptolemaeum,id. Dom. 8, 20: “censeo publicandas eorum pecunias,Sall. C. 51, 43; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; Liv. 3, 58; 29, 19; Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 13: “aurarias,Tac. A. 6, 19.—
II. To show or tell to the people, to impart to the public, make public or common (freq. only in the post-Aug. period, not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf. “vulgo): Aventinum,” i. e. to open for building, Liv. 3, 31, 1: “bibliothecas Graecas et Latinas,to furnish for the use of the public, throw open to the public, Suet. Caes. 44; Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 115; Suet. Aug. 43.—With se, to let one's self be heard in public, to come before the public, Suet. Ner. 21: “oratiunculam,to publish, Plin. Ep. 5, 13, 1: “epistulas,id. ib. 1, 1, 1: “librum,id. ib. 1, 5, 2: “libellos,Suet. Caes. 56; id. Aug. 43.—
B. In partic.
1. To make known, publish, reveal, disclose (very rare): “reticenda,Just. 1, 7, 5; 2, 15, 17: “dies fasti publicati,Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 17.—
2. Corpus publicare, to expose one's self to common use, prostitute one's self, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 22: “publicata pudicitia,Tac. G. 19; Quint. 7, 9, 4.—
3. To lay waste, destroy, make a ruin of: “domus,Vulg. 1 Esdr. 6, 11; id. Dan. 2, 5.
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