exibeo

ex-hĭbĕo ( ex-ibeo, v. Brix. ad Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 37), ŭi, itum, 2, v. a. [habeo; lit., to hold out, reach out; hence],

I.

To hold forth, tender, present; to deliver, give up, produce (class.; syn.: praebeo, porrigo, praesto, tribuo, ministro, do, dono, dedo, etc.).

A.

Lit.: ait Praetor: QVEM HOMINEM DOLO MALO RETINES, EXHIBEAS.... Exhibere est in publicum producere, et videndi tangendique hominis facultatem praebere;

proprie autem exhibere est extra secretum habere,

Dig. 43, 29, 1 and 3, § 8: jam periculum est ne cogantur ad exhibendum formulam accipere, i. e. to acknowledge legal notice, etc. Sen. Ep. 50, 1:

alicui omnia integra,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 63:

exhibe librarium illud legum vestrarum,

id. Mil. 12, 33:

pallium,

Petr. 15:

tabulas testamenti,

Suet. Vit. 14:

rationes,

Dig. 40, 5, 41 fin.:

fratres exhibe,

Cic. Fl. 15, 35; so,

fugitivos apud magistratus,

Dig. 11, 4, 1:

aliquem apud acta,

ib. 2, 4, 17:

debitorem in judicium,

ib. 12, 2, 28 quadringentos senatores ad ferrum, Suet. Ner. 12 et saep.:

vias tutas,

i. e. to make safe, Ov. Pont. 4, 5, 34:

toros,

i. e. to furnish, allow, id. H. 17, 194:

exhibuit querulos ore gemente sonos,

uttered, id. Tr. 3, 11, 54.—

B.

Transf.

1.

To show, to display, to exhibit:

exhibuit gemino praesignia tempora cornu,

Ov. M. 15, 611:

notam linguae,

id. ib. 14, 526: exhibuit linguam paternam, displayed, i. e. used the language of her father, id. ib. 6, 213:

faciem sucumque,

Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 41:

malui me tribunum omnibus exhibere quam paucis advocatum,

Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 4:

se ministratorem alicui,

Suet. Vit. 17:

se adorandum adeuntibus,

id. Calig. 22 (but not in Cic. Sest. 50, 107, where the right reading is praebuit, v. Halm. ad h. l.).—In the latter (reflexive) sense sometimes without se:

quid me putas populo nostro exhibiturum?

how I shall exhibit, show myself, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 18; cf.:

qui vere civilem virum exhibeat,

shows, proves himself, Quint. 12, 2, 7 Spald.; Ov. M. 6, 44:

pro fratre hostem exhibuit,

Just. 27, 2.—

(β).

To show, confer (late Lat.):

alicui honorem,

Aug. Serm. 46, 7.—

2.

To maintain, support, sustain (post-class.;

esp. freq. in jurid. Lat.): si quis a liberis ali desideret, vel liberi, ut a parente exhibeantur,

Dig. 25, 3, 5; so,

aliquem,

ib. 1, 12, 1; 3, 5, 33 al.; cf.:

Scythas alimentis,

Just. 9, 2:

vitam,

id. 11, 10; 22, 1.

II.

To show, exhibit, employ; to procure, occasion, cause:

rem salvam exhibebo,

I will set it all right, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 51: quorum virtus exhibet solidum decus, Phaedr. 4, 23, 24:

vocis fidem,

id. 3, 19 Epil. 9:

munificentiam,

Suet. Tib. 48:

liberalitatem, clementiam, comitatem,

id. Ner. 10; cf.:

liberalitatem et justitiam,

Plin. Pan. 33, 2:

vicem spodii,

i.e. to supply the place of, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 125; cf.:

vicem testamenti,

Dig. 29, 6, 16:

humanitatem,

to exercise, exhibit, Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 2:

diligentiam,

Dig. 18, 6, 2:

imperium,

to exercise, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 57:

alicui molestiam,

to cause, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 2; Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 3; id. Capt. 4, 2, 37:

negotium hominibus,

to produce, occasion, id. Poen. 1, 2, 30; cf.:

qui deum nihil habere ipsum negotii (dicunt), nihil exhibere alteri,

Cic. Off. 3, 28, 102; id. ib. 3, 31, 112:

negotium alicui,

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 14; id. Most. 3, 1, 38; id. Men. 5, 9, 13; id. Pers. 2, 5, 14;

and once reflexively: jam se exhibebit hic mihi negotium,

will present itself, id. Rud. 2, 6, 72:

argutias mihi,

id. Most. 1, 1, 2:

difficilem laborem alicui,

Col. 5, 5, 17:

curam alicui,

Tib. 2, 1, 61 et saep.