col-laudo (conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
to praise or commend very much , extol highly (class.): quantis laudibus Suum erum servus collaudavit, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 61: collegam, id. As. 3, 2, 30: alios, se, id. Truc. 2, 6, 15: filium, Ter. Ad. 367: ab omnibus conlaudāri, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 5: me, * Hor. S. 1, 6, 70: collaudati milites, Caes. B. G. 5, 2; Nep. Ages. 1, 1; Liv. 1, 52, 1; Suet. Caes. 16: aliquem multum, Curt. 7, 5, 38; Stat. Th. 6, 490: magis utrumque collaudandum videri, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30: mores majorum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 17: collaudo consilium et probo, id. ib. 5, 2, 24: facta et virtutes tuas, Ter. Eun. 1090; cf. Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 28: clementiam ejus, id. Att. 9, 16, 1: eorum benevolentiam erga se, id. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 161: militum virtutem, Liv. 26, 48, 4 al.