publico

pūblĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [publicus].

I.

To make public property, to seize and adjudge to the public use, to confiscate (class.; cf.

proscribo): regnum Jubae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25:

bona Cingetorigis,

id. B. G. 5, 54; 7, 43:

privata,

Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 57:

bona,

id. Cat. 4, 4, 8:

Ptolemaeum,

id. Dom. 8, 20:

censeo publicandas eorum pecunias,

Sall. C. 51, 43; Nep. Thras. 1, 5; Liv. 3, 58; 29, 19; Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 13:

aurarias,

Tac. A. 6, 19.—

II.

To show or tell to the people, to impart to the public, make public or common (freq. only in the post-Aug. period, not in Cic. or Cæs.; cf.

vulgo): Aventinum,

i. e. to open for building, Liv. 3, 31, 1:

bibliothecas Graecas et Latinas,

to furnish for the use of the public, throw open to the public, Suet. Caes. 44; Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 115; Suet. Aug. 43.—With se, to let one's self be heard in public, to come before the public, Suet. Ner. 21:

oratiunculam,

to publish, Plin. Ep. 5, 13, 1:

epistulas,

id. ib. 1, 1, 1:

librum,

id. ib. 1, 5, 2:

libellos,

Suet. Caes. 56; id. Aug. 43.—

B.

In partic.

1.

To make known, publish, reveal, disclose (very rare):

reticenda,

Just. 1, 7, 5; 2, 15, 17:

dies fasti publicati,

Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 17.—

2.

Corpus publicare, to expose one's self to common use, prostitute one's self, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 22:

publicata pudicitia,

Tac. G. 19; Quint. 7, 9, 4.—

3.

To lay waste, destroy, make a ruin of:

domus,

Vulg. 1 Esdr. 6, 11; id. Dan. 2, 5.