ex-opto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to wish or desire greatly , to long for a thing (class.).
α With acc.: quae majori parti pulcherrima videntur, ea maxime exoptant, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: Samnitium adventum, Liv. 9, 25, 5: illum exoptavit potius? Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 3: aliquid, id. As. 3, 3, 133: omnes te oderunt, tibi pestem exoptant, wish you , Cic. Pis. 40, 96.—
β With inf.-clause as object : multis de causis te exopto quam primum videre, Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 3: aemulari neglegentiam alicuius, Ter. And. 20 (but not in Enn. Ann., where the better read. is laudarier optans, v. Vahl. p. 80).—
γ With ut : omnium hominum exopto ut fiam miserorum miserrimus, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 65: ut sempiternae laudi tibi sit iste tribunatus exopto, Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1.—
δ Absol. : neque nobis cupientibus atque exoptantibus fructus otii datus est, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.
VI —Hence, exoptātus , a, um, P. a., greatly wished or desired , longed for : edepol me uxori exoptatum credo adventurum domum, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 22; id. Truc. 2, 6, 33; id. Capt. 5, 4, 9; id. Curc. 2, 3, 27: Antiphila, maxume animo exoptata meo, Ter. Heaut. 408: ut exoptatum inimico nuntium primus adferret, Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: erit et tibi exoptatum optinget, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 20; id. As. 3, 3, 136.— Comp. : nihil exoptatius adventu meo, Cic. Att. 5, 15, 1.— Sup. : o mi ere exoptatissume, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 65: gratulatio, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 2.—Adv. seems not to occur.