conpos

com-pŏs ( conp- ), pŏtis, adj. [potis], having the mastery, control, or power over a thing, master of, partaking of, possessing, participating or sharing in, guilty of, etc. (very freq. and class.); constr. usu. with gen., more rarely with abl., or absol.

(α).

With gen.: animi, of a sane mind, * Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 12:

mentis,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; id. Pis. 20, 48; Ov. M. 8, 35; Quint. 11, 3, 77; Tac. A. 15, 70; Suet. Vesp. 5:

territum et vix mentis suae compotem opprimere,

Curt. 6, 3, 16:

nec satis compotem mentis... deferunt,

id. 3, 5, 4:

sui,

Liv. 8, 18, 12; Cels. 5, 26, 13; Curt. 4, 12, 17:

rationis et consilii,

Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 36; cf. id. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

libertatis,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 41:

patriae,

id. ib. 3, 4, 89; Liv. 1, 32, 7:

ejus doni,

id. 1, 10, 7:

hujus urbis,

Cic. Sest. 69, 146:

bellicae laudis,

Liv. 30, 1, 5:

spei,

id. 29, 22, 5; Suet. Tib. 5: voti, having obtained or gratified one ' s wish, Hor. A. P. 76; Ov. A. A. 1, 486; Liv. 7, 40, 6; Suet. Aug. 28; id. Calig. 13; Sen. Hippol. 710; Curt. 9, 9 fin.; cf.

votorum,

Suet. Aug. 58.—

(β).

With abl.:

qui essent animo et scientiā compotes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210:

corpore atque animo,

Liv. 4, 40, 3:

mente,

Verg. Cul. 189:

praedā ingenti,

Liv. 3, 70, 13.—

(γ).

Absol.:

vix compos (sc. mentis) Imilce,

Sil. 4, 808.—

B.

Referring to misfortune or guilt, sharing in, participating in, confederate in, etc. (anteclass. and post-Aug.).

(α).

With gen.:

miseriarum,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 32: probri, Naev. ap. Non. p. 456, 25 (Trag. Rel. v. 6 Rib.):

culpae,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 61:

sceleris,

Quint. 12, 1, 7.—

(β).

With abl.: magnis et multis malis, Att. ap. Non. p. 521, 27 (Trag. Rel. v. 36 Rib.).—

II.

Transf., of the thing:

compote voto,

Sen. Agam. 364.