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|lshtext=<b>ŏportet</b>: ŭit, 2,<br /><b>I</b> v. impers. [2. [[opus]], it is [[necessary]], [[needful]], [[proper]], [[becoming]], or [[reasonable]]; it behooves; I (thou, he, etc.) [[must]] or [[ought]] (cf.: [[opus]] est, [[necesse]] est, [[debeo]]; [[oportet]] denotes the [[necessity]] of [[reason]] or [[duty]], [[necesse]] est [[that]] of [[compulsion]]).—Constr. [[class]]. [[with]] a [[subject]]-[[clause]], the subj., or absol.; [[late]] Lat. also [[with]] ut and subj. [[tamquam]] ita fieri non [[solum]] oporteret, sed [[etiam]] [[necesse]] esset, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 39, § 84: hoc fieri et [[oportet]] et [[opus]] est, id. Att. 13, 25, 1: ted ipsum [[oportet]] hoc profiteri et proloqui, Enn. ap. Non. 232, 24 (Trag. v. 384 Vahl); cf.: qui alteri [[exitium]] parat, eum scire [[oportet]] sibi paratam pestem parem, id. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39 (Trag. v. 22 ib.): hanc scire [[oportet]], [[filia]] tua ubi [[sit]], Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 51: servum [[hercle]] te esse [[oportet]] et [[nequam]] et [[malum]], [[you]] [[must]] be a [[truly]] goodfor-[[nothing]] [[slave]], id. Poen. 5, 2, 70: non oportuit relictas (i. e. relictas esse ancillas), Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 6: adulescenti morem gestum oportuit, id. Ad. 2, 2, 6: ut ut erat, mansum [[tamen]] oportuit, he [[ought]] to [[have]] stayed, id. Heaut. 1, 2, 26: nec [[mediocre]] [[telum]] ad res gerendas existimare [[oportet]] benevolentiam civium, Cic. Lael. 17, 61: [[pecunia]], [[quam]] his oportuit civitatibus pro frumento dari, [[that]] [[was]] to be given, id. Verr. 2, 3, 75, § 174: [[unde]] habeas, quaerit [[nemo]], sed [[oportet]] habere, Juv. 14, 207.—With subj.: ex rerum cognitione efflorescat et redundet [[oportet]] [[oratio]], Cic. de Or. 1, 6, 20: me ipsum [[ames]] [[oportet]], non mea, id. Fin. 2, 26: valeat [[possessor]] [[oportet]], Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 49.—Also ([[late]] Lat.) constr. [[with]] ut and subj., Aug. Civ. Dei, 1, 10; Boëth. Consol. Phil. 1, pros. 4.—Absol.: si [[denique]] aliquid non [[contra]] ac liceret [[factum]] diceretur, sed [[contra]] [[atque]] oporteret ... est [[enim]] aliquid, [[quod]] non oporteat, [[etiam]] si [[licet]]: [[quicquid]] [[vero]] non [[licet]], [[certe]] non [[oportet]], Cic. Balb. 3, 7; cf.: ne [[quid]] fiat [[secus]] [[quam]] volumus quamque [[oportet]], id. Att. 6, 2, 2: [[alio]] tempore [[atque]] oportuerit, Caes. B. G. 7, 33: longior [[quam]] [[oportet]] [[sermo]], Quint. 8, 3, 53; cf. id. 8, 2, 23; 9, 4, 144.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur. (anteclass.): ut ea, quae oportuerint, facta non sint, Caecil. ap. Prisc. p. 827 P.: haec facta ab [[illo]] oportebant (al. oportebat), Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 25; cf. id. And. 3, 2, 1.
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