investigo

in-vestīgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (investigandum for investigandorum, Pac. ap. Non. 495, 26), to track or trace out, as a dog; to search after (class.).

I.

Lit.:

canum tam incredibilis ad investigandum sagacitas narium,

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

illam,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 79:

latentes conscios,

Suet. Dom. 10:

David et Viros ejus,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 24, 3.—

II.

Trop., to trace out, find out, discover, investigate, search into:

nihil investigo quicquam de illa,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 6, 13:

quid dare velis, qui istaec tibi investiget indicetque,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 35:

nil tam difficile est, quin quaerendo investigari possiet,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 8:

qui sim, nequeo certum investigare,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 4:

Cibyratici canes investigabant et perscrutabantur omnia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 47:

conjurationem,

id. Sull. 1, 3; 30, 85:

veri investigandi cupidus,

id. Fin. 4, 8, 20:

de Lentulo,

id. Att. 9, 7, 6:

diligentia inimici investigatum est, quod latebat,

id. Lig. 1, 1:

ubi Lentulus sit, investigare non possum,

id. Att. 9, 1, 2:

conatus,

id. Verr. 1, 16, 48:

perquirere et investigare homines,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 8:

quae per notas scripta,

to decipher, Suet. Caes. 56.