patefacio

pătĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3 (scanned pătēfēcit, Lucr. 4, 320; and in pass. pătēfīet, id. 6, 1001), v. a. [pateo-facio], to make or lay open, to open, throw open (freq. and class.; syn.: pando, recludo, aperio).

I.

Lit.:

iter,

Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

patefacere et munire alicui aditum ad aliquid,

id. Fam. 13, 78, 2:

aures assentatoribus,

id. Off. 1, 26, 91:

portas,

Liv. 2, 15:

ordines, aciem,

id. 28, 14:

sulcum aratro,

Ov. M. 3, 104:

oculos,

Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150: patefacta triumphis Janua. Prop. 1, 16, 1:

iter per Alpes patefieri volebat,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 27.— Poet.:

postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem,

i. e. had exposed to view, made visible, Ov. M. 9, 794.—Esp. (= anoigein), to open the way, as a discoverer or pioneer; to be the first to find:

vias,

Caes. B G 7, 8:

tellus in longas est patefacta vias,

Tib. 1, 3, 36, cf.:

patefactumque nostris legionibus Pontum,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 8, 21:

loca,

Nep. Hann. 3, 4.—

II.

Trop., to disclose, expose, detect, bring to light: si hoc celatur, in metu;

sin patefit, in probro sum,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 4, 6:

odium suum in aliquem,

Cic. Att. 11, 13, 2:

patefacere verum et illustrare,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

rem,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5:

patefacere et proferre aliquid,

id. Mil. 37, 103:

veritas patefacta,

id. Sull. 16, 45; id. Ac. 2, 39, 122:

Lentulus patefactus indiciis,

convicted, id. Cat 3, 6, 15:

qui ea proferenda et patefacienda curavit,

id. Fl. 2, 5:

se aliquid patefacturam,

id. Ac. 2, 14, 44.