condico

con-dīco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

I.

To talk a thing over together, to agree upon, to concert, to promise (most freq. as publicists' t. t.): condixit pater patratus populi Romani Quiritium patri patrato priscorum Latinorum, etc., old form ap. Liv. 1, 32, 11: status condictusve dies cum hoste, Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4; Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5; cf.:

quoniam pactum atque condictum cum rege populi Romani perfide ruperat,

Gell. 20, 1, 54:

sic constituunt, sic condicunt,

Tac. G. 11:

inducias,

Just. 3, 7, 14:

tempus et locum coëundi,

id. 15, 2, 16:

ruptā quiete condictā,

the truce, Amm. 20, 1, 1:

in diem tertium,

Gell. 10, 24, 9:

in vendendo fundo quaedam etiam si non condicantur praestanda sunt,

Dig. 18, 1, 66.—

* 2.

Trop.: cum hanc operam (scribendi) condicerem, obligated myself to it, i. e. undertook it, Plin. praef. § 6 Jan.—Hence,

B.

Esp.

1.

To proclaim, announce, publish: condicere est dicendo denuntiare, Paul. ex Fest. p. 64, 16 Müll.; cf.:

sacerdotes populi Romani cum condicunt in diem tertium, diem perendini dicunt,

Gell. 10, 24, 9.—

2.

Condicere alicui ad cenam or cenam, to engage one's self as guest at an entertainment:

ad cenam aliquo condicam foras,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 16; id. Stich. 3, 1, 38:

seni cenam eā lege condixit,

Suet. Tib. 42; cf.:

velut ad subitam condictamque cenulam invitare,

i. e. without previous preparation, id. Claud. 21.— Absol.:

nam cum mihi condixisset, cenavit apud me in mei generi hortis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

ad balneas,

Tert. adv. Uxor. 2, 4.—

3.

In the jurists: condicere aliquid alicui, lit., to give notice that something should be returned; hence, to demand back, make a formal claim of restitution (from any one):

rem,

Dig. 39, 6, 13:

pecuniam alicui,

ib. 12, 1, 11; or for satisfaction: quia extinctae res, licet vindicari non possunt, condici tamen furibus et quibusdam aliis possessoribus possunt, Gai Inst. 2, 79; cf. id. 4, 5, and v. condictio and condicticius.—

II.

In late Lat., to assent or agree unanimously, = consentire, Tert. Anim. 8; id. adv. Marc. 2, 2; id. Coron. 11.