erogo

ē-rŏgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I.

Orig., a pub. law t. t., to expend, pay out money from the public treasury, after asking the consent of the people:

pecunias ex aerario,

Cic. Vat. 12; cf. id. Verr. 2, 3, 71; 2, 5, 19; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14; Liv. 22, 23; 33, 47 al.; cf.:

pecuniam in classem,

Cic. Fl. 13:

in aes alienum,

id. Att. 6, 1, 21:

unde in eos sumptus, pecunia erogaretur,

Liv. 1, 20; Vulg. Marc. 5, 26.—

B.

Transf. beyond the pub. law sphere, to pay, pay out, disburse, expend (cf.:

pendo, expendo, perpendo, pondero, solvo, luo): Tironem Curio commendes, ut ei, si quid opus erit, in sumptum eroget,

Cic. Att. 8, 5 fin.:

aliquid in pretium servi,

Dig. 25, 2, 36 fin.:

bona sua in fraudem futurae actionis,

to squander, ib. 17, 2, 68:

grandem pecuniam in Tigellinum,

to bequeath, Tac. A. 16, 17; cf.:

in Tiridatem erogavit,

Suet. Ner. 30:

odores, unguenta ad funus,

Dig. 15, 3, 7:

nihil de bonis,

ib. 24, 1, 5 fin.; cf.:

aliquid ex bonis,

ib. 26, 7, 12:

aliquid pro introitu,

ib. 32, 1, 102 fin. et saep.—

C.

Trop., in Tertullian: aliquem, to expose to death, to destroy, kill:

tot innocentes,

Tert. Apol. 44; id. Spect. 12; id. Praescript. 2.—

II.

To entreat, prevail on by entreaties:

precibus erogatus,

App. M. 5, p. 165.