divulgo

dīvulgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to spread among the people, to make common, publish, divulge (rare but class.; cf.:

publico, vulgo, pervulgo, pervagor): librum,

Cic. Att. 12, 40; 13, 21, 4; id. Or. 31 fin.; cf.

seria,

id. Phil. 2, 4: consilium Domitii, * Caes. B. C. 1, 20, 1:

chirographa omnium,

Suet. Calig. 24:

versiculos,

id. ib. 8:

omnem mimum,

id. Oth. 3 fin. et saep.:

rem sermonibus,

Cic. Font. 5, 10; cf.:

aliquid turpi fama,

Tac. A. 12, 49:

opinionem tam gloriosae expeditionis,

Just. 42, 2, 11; cf.:

hanc opinionem in Macedoniam,

id. 12, 5, 5.— With acc. and inf.:

non est divulgandum de te jam esse perfectum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 3; cf. Suet. Claud. 39 fin. —

B.

Transf., to make common: cujus primum tempus aetatis palam fuisset ad omnium libidines divulgatum, lowered or degraded to, Cic. Post. Red. ap. Sen. 5, 11.—Hence, dīvul-gātus, a, um, P. a., widespread:

alicujus divulgata gloria,

Lucr. 6, 8:

divulgata veris ante habere,

Tac. A. 4, 11:

Afer divulgato ingenio,

id. ib. 4, 52:

magistratus levissimus et divulgatissimus (sc. praeturae),

i. e. most common, Cic. Fam. 10, 26, 2.— Comp. and adv. do not occur.