complaceo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

com-plăcĕo, plăcŭi and plăcĭtus sum, 2, v. n. (except in Col., only ante- and postclass.).

I To be pleasing at the same time , to please also : postquam me amare dixi, complacita'st tibi, Ter. And. 645: ut et tibi et Gallioni nostro complacuerat, * Col. 9, 16, 2; cf. Gell. 17, 9, 4.—

II To be very pleasing to : Veneri haec complacuerunt, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 22: hoc deo complacitum'st, id. ib. 1, 3, 3; cf. Gell. 18, 3, 4: ejus sibi complacitam formam, Ter. Heaut. 773; cf. Ap. Met. 4, 32, 12; Nemes. Cyn. 12.

III —Hence, complăcĭtus , a, um, P. a., pleased , favorable : Musae, Mart. Cap. 2, § 119; comp. : deus, complacitior, Vulg. Psa. 76, 8.

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