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|lshtext=<b>lĭto</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a., to [[make]] an [[offering]] [[which]] exhibits favorable prognostics, to [[sacrifice]] under favorable [[auspices]], to [[obtain]] favorable omens.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Neutr.: si [[istuc]] [[umquam]] [[factum]] est, tum me [[Juppiter]] Faciat, ut [[semper]] sacrificem nec [[umquam]] litem, Plaut. Poen. 2, 41: nec [[auspicato]], nec [[litato]] instruunt aciem, [[without]] favorable omens, Liv. 5, 38: Manlium [[egregie]] litasse, id. 8, 9, 1: non [[facile]] litare, id. 27, 23; 29, 10, 6; Suet. Caes. 81; [[curt]]. 7, 7, 29: impia tam [[saeve]] gesturus bella litasti, Luc. 7, 171.—Prov.: [[mola]] [[tantum]] salsa litant, qui non habent tura, i. e. a [[man]] can [[give]] no [[more]] [[than]] he has, Plin. praef. § 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat.: cum pluribus dis immolatur, qui [[tandem]] evenit, ut litetur aliis, aliis non litetur, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 38: litatum est ei deo, Plin. 10, 28, 40, § 75.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With abl.: proximā hostiā litatur [[saepe]] pulcherrime, Cic. Div. 2, 15, 36; so Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 183: humanis hostiis, Tac. G. 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the [[victim]] itself, to [[give]] a favorable [[omen]], [[promise]] a [[successful]] [[event]]: [[victima]] Diti patri [[caesa]] litavit, Suet. Oth. 8; id. Aug. 96: non quacunque manu [[victima]] [[caesa]] litat, Mart. 10, 73, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., in gen., to [[make]] an [[offering]], [[offer]] [[sacrifice]]: qui hominem immolaverint, exve ejus [[sanguine]] litaverint ... capite puniuntur, Paul. Sent. 5, 23, 16.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Act., to [[offer]] [[acceptably]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]): [[exta]] litabat [[ovis]], Prop. 4 (5), 1, 24: sacra bove, Ov. F. 4, 630: sacris litatis, Verg. A. 4, 50: sacris ex [[more]] litatis, Ov. M. 14, 156: [[Phoebe]], [[tibi]] [[enim]] haec sacra litavi, Stat. Th. 10, 338: [[tibi]] litavi hoc [[sacrum]], Luc. 1, 632: diis sanguinem humanum, Flor. 3, 4, 2: hostias, Just. 20, 2, 14.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[bring]] an [[offering]] to, to [[make]] [[atonement]] to, to [[propitiate]], [[appease]], [[satisfy]]: litemus Lentulo, parentemus Cethego, Cic. Fl. 38, 96: [[publico]] gaudio, Plin. [[Pan]]. 52, 4: aliquid poenā, Auct. B. Hisp. 24. —Impers. [[pass]].: [[sanguine]] quaerendi [[reditus]], animāque litandum Argolicā, Verg. A. 2, 118: [[postquam]] litatum est Ilio [[Phoebus]] redit, Sen. Agm. 577: de alicujus [[sanguine]] legibus, App. M. 2, p. 132 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[devote]], [[consecrate]]: plura non habui, [[dolor]], [[tibi]] quae litarem, Sen. Med. fin.: honorem deo, Tert. Patient. 10: victimam, Prud. Cath. 7, 5.
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