dē-pendĕo, ēre, v. a., to hang from or on, to hang down (not freq. till the Aug. period; not in Cic. and Caes.—for syn. cf.: pendeo, impendeo).
I Lit.: (anellus) unus ex uno, Lucr. 6, 915; cf.: sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus, Verg. A. 6, 301: dependente a cervicibus pugione, Suet. Galb. 11: dependent lychni laquearibus aureis, Verg. A. 1, 726: galea ramis, id. ib. 10, 836: parma laevo lacerto, id. ib. 11, 693: hasta umero, Quint. 11, 3, 130: serta tectis, Ov. M. 4, 760: cervina vellera lateri sinistro, id. ib. 6, 593: cui coma dependet, id. A. A. 1, 224: laqueo dependentem invenere, Liv. 42, 28 fin. : dependente brachio, Suet. Caes. 82; Ov. F. 3, 267: nec dependes nec propendes, i. e. weighest neither less nor more , Plaut. As. 2, 2, 39.—
II Trop.
A (Only in Ovid.) To be dependent on or wait for a thing: promissa tarda videntur, dependetque fides a veniente die, Ov. F. 3, 356.—
B To be dependent on, to be governed by : ex horum (siderum) motibus fortunae populorum dependent, Sen. ad Marc. 18, 3.—
C To depend on, be derived from : ex hoc malo dependet illud teterrimum vitium, id. Tranq. An. 12, 7: haec (membra) ex illis (elementis) dependent, illa et horum causae sunt et omnia, id. Ep. 95, 12.—Hence of etymol. dependence, i. e. to be derived : hujus et augurium dependet origine verbi (sc. augustus) Et quodcumque sua Juppiter auget ope, Ov. F. 1, 611.