hostio

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

hostio, īre, v. a.,

to make even , return like for like , to recompense , requite : hostire (ab antiquis) ponebatur pro aequare. Fest. s. v. status dies, p. 314 Müll.; ib. s. v. redhostire, p. 270 (ante-class.): nisi coërceo Protervitatem atque hostio ferociam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. redhostire, p. 270; and ap. Non. 121, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 346 Rib.): quin promitto hostire contra, ut merueris, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 110.