comprecor

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

com-prĕcor (conp-), ātus, āri, v. dep. (lit. to worship a deity with all the usages belonging thereto; hence, in gen.),

to pray to, supplicate, implore (mostly ante-class. and rare; not in Cic.); constr. alicui, aliquem, aliquid , or absol. : Jovi molā salsā, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 108: deos, Ter. Ad. 699 and 704: caelestūm fidem, * Cat. 64, 191.— Absol., to pray, supplicate : abi intro et conprecare, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 41: Cythereïa, comprecor, ausis Assit, Ov. M. 10, 640; 12, 285; 14, 379.—With dat. of pers., to imprecate, wish for a person: tunc mortem comprecantur sibi, Sen. Ep. 99, 16: iratum principem alicui, Plin. Ep. 4, 25, 2; so absol. , Plin. Pan. 2 fin.

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