acquiesco

ac-quĭesco ( adqu. ), ēvi, ētum, 3, v. n., lit., to become physically quiet, to come to physical repose; hence, in gen., to repose or rest (freq. in Cic.).

I.

Lit.: sine respirem, quaeso. Pe. Immo adquiesce, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 20; id. As. 2, 2, 60:

vitandi caloris causā Lanuvii trīs horas acquieveram,

Cic. Att. 13, 34:

a lassitudine,

Nep. Dat. 11, 3:

somno,

Curt. 9, 5, 16; cf.:

gravi sopore,

id. 6, 10, 6, and absol. of sleep, id. 8, 6, 3:

cum aures extremum semper exspectent in eoque acquiescant,

Cic. Or. 59.—By euphemism (as in all languages), to die (esp. after a wearisome life):

sic vir fortissimus multis variisque perfunctus laboribus, anno acquievit septuagesimo,

Nep. Hann. 13, 1; cf.

morte,

Tac. A. 14, 64;

and in many epitaphs: HIC ADQVIESCIT, etc.,

Inscr. Orell. 2313; 4084; 4491 al.; so, quiesco, q. v.

II.

Fig.

A.

To come to a state of repose in relation to one's wishes, desires, etc.; to repose in; to find rest, pleasure, etc., in; to rejoice in; in Cic. mostly with in, and of things: in the historians and later writers, with dat. or abl., and also of persons:

quae delectet, in qua acquiescam,

Cic. Att. 4, 16:

senes in adulescentium caritate acquiescimus,

id. Lael. 27; id. Fin. 3, 2, 6:

qui jam aetate provecti in nostris libris acquiescunt,

id. Div. 2, 2, 5. Examples in Cic. of a person:

tecum ut quasi loquerer, in quo uno acquiesco,

Att. 9, 10, and with abl.:

qui maxime P. Clodii morte acquierunt,

id. Mil. 37, 102:

cui velut oraculo acquiescebat,

Suet. Vit. 14:

uno solatio acquiescens,

id. Cal. 51; id. Tib. 56:

amicos elegit, quibus etiam post eum principes acquieverunt,

id. Tit. 7.—

B.

To be satisfied with, to acquiesce in or give assent to: tu, cum es commotus, acquiescis, assentiris, approbas (where the climax of the ideas should be noticed, you accede to them, i. e. you cease to oppose them; you assent to them, i. e. you make known your approbation by words), Cic. Ac. 2, 46, 141; so Suet. Vit. 14; Dig. 24, 3, 22, § 6; 38, 1, 7 al.