particeps

partĭceps, cipis, adj. [pars-capio], sharing, partaking, participant (class.; syn.: consors, socius); constr. usually with gen., rarely also with dat. or with prepp.

I.

Adj.

(α).

With gen.:

fac participes nos tuae sapientiae,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 81:

nuntii,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 19:

esse participem leti,

i. e. to be mortal, Lucr. 3, 462:

animus rationis compos et particeps,

Cic. Univ. 8:

fortunarum omnium socius et particeps,

id. Font. 17, 47:

artis,

id. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Inv. 2, 30, 92:

virtutes ita copulatae conexaeque sunt, ut omnes omnium participes sint,

id. Fin. 5, 23, 67:

praedae ac praemiorum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 82:

secreti honesti,

Juv. 3, 52.—

(β).

With dat.:

aliquem participem studiis habere,

Ov. P. 2, 5, 41 (al. studii):

alicujus consilii fortibus viris esse participem,

Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. id. 6, 6, 36:

sceleris in regem suum,

id. 6, 24:

Natalis particeps ad omne secretum Pisoni erat,

Tac. A. 15, 50. —

(γ).

With a prep.:

non licet donati obsoni me participem fieri,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 34 Speng.:

particeps in tribulatione,

Vulg. Apoc. 1, 9.—

(δ).

With a rel.-clause:

is speculatum huc misit me, ut, quae fierent, fieret particeps,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 19.—

II.

Subst., a sharer, partaker, partner. —Esp., a comrade, fellow-soldier: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 512, 32:

me et semul participes meos praedā onerabo,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 14:

praedam participes petunt,

id. Most. 1, 3, 154:

meus particeps,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 98:

hujus belli ego particeps et socius et adjutor esse cogor,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5:

in quādam conjuratione quasi participes nominati,

Suet. Calig. 56; cf. Curt. 6, 8, 5.