pando

pandō pandī, passus, ere

2 PAT-, to spread out, extend, unfold, expand : ad solem pennas, V.: pictā spectacula caudā, H.: sinūs (i. e. vela), Iu.: panditur planities, extends , L.: dum se cornua latius pandunt, open out , L.: si panditur ultra (gremium), i. e. is not yet full , Iu.— To throw open, open, lay open : moenia urbis, V.: hederae pandunt vestigia nigrae, disclose , V.: rupem ferro, split , L.: panduntur inter ordines viae, open , L.— Fig., to spread, extend : alia divina (bona) longe lateque se pandunt, i. e. extend their influence : vela orationis.— To open : cuiquam ad dominationem pandere viam, L.—Of speech, to unfold, make known, publish, reveal, explain : res caligine mersas, V.: oraculum, Ct.: quae nunc panduntur fatis, L.(oracle): Pandite, Musae, Unde, etc., O.