I.sharing, partaking, participant (class.; syn.: consors, socius); constr. usually with gen., rarely also with dat. or with prepp.
I. Adj.
(α).
With gen.: “fac participes nos tuae sapientiae,” Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 81: “nuntii,” Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 19: “esse participem leti,” i. e. to be mortal, Lucr. 3, 462: “animus rationis compos et particeps,” Cic. Univ. 8: “fortunarum omnium socius et particeps,” id. Font. 17, 47: “artis,” id. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Inv. 2, 30, 92: “virtutes ita copulatae conexaeque sunt, ut omnes omnium participes sint,” id. Fin. 5, 23, 67: “praedae ac praemiorum,” Caes. B. C. 3, 82: “secreti honesti,” Juv. 3, 52.—
(β).
With dat.: “aliquem participem studiis habere,” Ov. P. 2, 5, 41 (al. studii): “alicujus consilii fortibus viris esse participem,” Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. id. 6, 6, 36: “sceleris in regem suum,” id. 6, 24: “Natalis particeps ad omne secretum Pisoni erat,” Tac. A. 15, 50. —
(γ).
With a prep.: “non licet donati obsoni me participem fieri,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 34 Speng.: “particeps in tribulatione,” Vulg. Apoc. 1, 9.—
(δ).
With a rel.-clause: “is speculatum huc misit me, ut, quae fierent, fieret particeps,” Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 19.—
II. Subst., a sharer, partaker, partner.—Esp., a comrade, fellow-soldier: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 512, 32: “me et semul participes meos praedā onerabo,” Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 14: “praedam participes petunt,” id. Most. 1, 3, 154: “meus particeps,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 98: “hujus belli ego particeps et socius et adjutor esse cogor,” Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5: “in quādam conjuratione quasi participes nominati,” Suet. Calig. 56; cf. Curt. 6, 8, 5.
