praebeo

praebĕo, ŭi, ĭtum (old inf. praeberier, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 49; id. Am. 4, 2, 7), 2, v. a. [contr. from praehibeo, q. v. from prae-habeo], to hold forth, reach out, proffer, offer (class., esp. in the trop. signif.; syn.: ministro, suppedito, suggero).

I.

Lit.:

canis parvulo praebens ubera,

Just. 1, 4:

cibum de manu,

Col. 9, 1, 6: collum cultris, Juv [p. 1411] 10, 269:

praebenda gladio cervix,

id. 10, 345:

jugulum,

Sen. Agam. 973:

cervicem,

Petr. 97:

os ad contumeliam,

Liv. 4, 35:

verberibus manus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 16:

aures,

to give ear, listen, attend, Liv. 38, 52; Vulg.Sap. 6, 3: aurem, id. Job, 6, 28.—

II.

Transf., in gen., to give, grant, furnish, supply:

aurum, vestem, purpuram Bene praebeo, nec quicquam eges,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 11:

panem,

Nep. Them. 10, 3:

sumptum,

Just. 31, 4, 1:

spectaculum,

Sall. J. 14, 23:

sponsalia,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 1: vicem, to supply the place of:

vicem postium,

to supply the place of posts, serve as posts, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 31:

eundem usum,

id. 28, 11, 49, § 179.—

B.

Trop., to give, grant, furnish, render, cause, make, occasion; to show, exhibit, represent; and with se, to show, approve, behave one's self in a certain manner:

operam reipublicae,

Liv. 5, 4:

materiam seditionis,

id. 3, 46:

honorem alicui,

Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19 (al. perhibuit):

fidem alicui in periculis,

Nep. Att. 4, 4.—Esp. with se and acc. of adj.:

se talem alicui, qualem, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 11:

in re misericordem et in testimonio religiosum se praebuit,

id. Caecin. 10, 26:

Pompeius se auctorem meae salutis praebuit,

id. Sest. 50, 107:

in eo vehementer se moderatum praebere,

id. Off. 2, 21, 73:

se in malis hominem praebuit,

id. Fam. 15, 17, 3:

se dignum suis majoribus,

id. ib. 2, 18, 3:

in eos, qui ea perficere voluerunt, me severum vehementemque praebeo,

id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

me similem in utroque praebui,

towards both, id. Sull. 8, 16.—With nom. of adj. (very rare):

ut vobis videtur, praebebit se periculis fortis,

Sen. Ep. 85, 26.—With abl.:

pari se virtute praebuit,

Nep. Dat. 2, 1:

in eo magistratu pari diligentiā se Hannibal praebuit,

id. Hann. 7, 5.—So, also, without se:

Phormio in hac re ut aliis strenuum hominem praebuit,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 12; so, too, in neutr. signif. of a woman, to surrender herself to her lover:

odi quae praebet, quia sit praebere necesse,

Ov. A. A. 2, 685:

praebere se legibus,

i. e. to resign one's self to, submit to, Sen. Ep. 70, 9:

praebere causam tollendi indutias,

to give, Liv. 30, 4:

suspicionem insidiarum,

Nep. Dat. 10, 3:

spem impunitatis aut locum peccandi,

Col. 11, 1:

gaudium et metum,

Liv. 25, 27:

tumultum,

id. 28, 1:

opinionem timoris,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17:

sonitum,

Liv. 7, 36:

caput argutae historiae,

matter for an entertaining story, Prop. 3 (4), 20, 28:

ludos,

to furnish sport, Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 9.—With an obj.-clause, to permit, allow, let a thing be done ( poet. ):

quae toties rapta est, praebuit ipsa rapi,

suffered herself to be carried off, Ov. H. 5, 132.—Hence, praebĭta, ōrum, n., what is furnished for support, allowance (postAug.):

annua,

Col. 1, 8, 17:

praebitis annuis privavit,

Suet. Tib. 50.