interrogo

inter-rŏgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to ask, question, inquire, interrogate (syn.: percontor, sciscitor; class.).

I.

In gen.:

hoc quod te interrogo, responde,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 70:

pusionem quendam interrogat Socrates quaedam,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 34, 57:

aliquem de aliqua re,

id. Part. 1, 2; id. Vatin. 5, 13:

interrogas me, num,

id. Cat. 1, 5, 13.— Pass.: tunc sententiae interrogari coeptae, judgments or votes to be taken; esp., in the Senate:

interrogare sententias,

Suet. Caes. 21 fin.; Liv. 45, 25:

ad haec, quae interrogatus es, responde,

id. 8, 32:

testimonium interrogatus miles,

Suet. Tib. 71:

illa interrogavit illam: Qui scis? etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 65:

Clodius interrogabat suos, quis esset, qui, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2; Suet. Vesp. 23; id. Aug. 54:

illud interrogo,

I put this question, Liv. 8, 32:

nil plus interrogo,

I have no more to ask, Juv. 10, 72.—

II.

In partic.

A.

To interrogate judicially, to examine; to go to law with, bring an action against, sue:

testes in reos,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5:

bene testem,

to cross-question a witness in such a manner as to make him contradict himself, Cic. Fl. 10, 22:

legibus interrogari,

Liv. 38, 50; 45, 47, 3:

quis me umquam ulla lege interrogavit?

Cic. Dom. 29, 77:

consules legibus ambitūs interrogati,

Sall. C. 18, 2; 31, 4:

pepigerat Pallas, ne cujus facti in praeteritum interrogaretur,

Tac. A. 13, 14:

damnatus Priscus repetundarum, Bithynis interrogantibus,

id. ib. 14, 46; 16, 21; Vell. 2, 13, 2. —

B.

To argue, reason syllogistically:

Posidonius sic interrogandum ait: Quae neque magnitudinem animo dant, nec securitatem, non sunt bona: divitiae nihil horum faciunt: ergo non sunt bona,

Sen. Ep. 87, 31.—

C.

In gram.:

interrogandi casus,

the genitive, Gell. 20, 6, 8; Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 25, 3.—

III.

Trop.: si versum pangis, etc., aurem tuam interroga, quo quid loco conveniat dicere, consult, Prob. Val. ap. Gell. 13, 21, 1 sq. — Hence, interrŏganter, adv., interrogatively (eccl. Lat.), Aug. in Job, 34.