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|lshtext=<b>ef-fĭcĭo</b>: (ecfacio), fēci, fectum, 3 (<br /><b>I</b> perf. subj. effexis, Plaut. As. 3, 5, 63; id. Poen. 1, 3, 19; inf. [[pass]]. ecfiĕri, id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Lucr. 6, 761), v. a., to [[make]] [[out]], [[work]] [[out]]; [[hence]], to [[bring]] to [[pass]], to [[effect]], [[execute]], [[complete]], [[accomplish]], [[make]], form ([[very]] freq. in all periods and sorts of [[writing]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: [[male]] [[quod]] [[mulier]] facere incepit, [[nisi]] id ecficere perpetrat, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12 sq.; cf. id. Pers. 5, 1, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 36 fin.; 1, 61, 2: magna facinora, Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 16; so, facinora, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109; cf. [[opus]], id. ib. 4, 1, 6; Plaut. Truc. 5, 17; Caes. B. G. 4, 18, 1; 7, 35, 4 et saep.: pontem, id. ib. 6, 6, 1; id. B. C. 1, 40, 1; 1, 62 fin.: ligneas turres, tormenta, id. ib. 3, 9, 3; 3, 39 fin.: castella, id. ib. 3, 44, 3: panes ex hoc (genere radicis), id. ib. 3, 48, 3: sphaeram ([[Archimedes]]), Cic. Rep. 1, 17: columnam, id. Verr. 2, 1, 56 et saep.: [[Mosa]] insulam efficit Batavorum, Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 2; id. ib. § 4; id. B. C. 3, 40, 4; cf.: portum ([[insula]]), id. ib. 3, 112, 2; Verg. A. 1, 160: magnum numerum cratium, scalarum, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 81, 1: aliquid dignum [[dono]] deorum, Cic. Rep. 3, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 26, 120: civitatem, id. Rep. 2, 30; cf. id. ib. 3, 32: varios [[concentus]], [[septem]] sonos, id. ib. 6, 18: magnas rerum commutationes, Caes. B. C. 3, 68, 1: tantos [[progressus]], Cic. Brut. 78, 272: clamores et admirationes in bonis oratoribus, id. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3 et saep.: XIII. cohortes, Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 5; cf.: delectu [[habito]] duas legiones, id. ib. 1, 31, 2: unam ex duabus (legionibus), id. ib. 3, 89, 1: ad duo milia [[ferme]] boum, Liv. 22, 16 et saep.: [[lepide]] [[meum]] [[officium]], Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 1 sq.; cf.: nostra [[munia]], id. Stich. 5, 4, 13: [[munus]], Cic. Rep. 1, 46 fin.; id. Leg. 1, 5, 16: nuptias alicui, Ter. And. 3, 4, 16: [[aurum]] alicui, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 55; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 57; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 23: hanc mulierem [[tibi]], Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 110 et saep.: [[quod]] a Curione effeceram, had procured, obtained, Cic. Att. 10, 10: [[amor]] [[mores]] hominum moros et morosos ecficit, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 43.—With [[two]] accs.: [[fortuna]] eos efficit caecos, quos complexa est, Cic. Lael. 15, 54; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; id. Rep. 2, 42; Caes. B. G. 3, 24 fin. et saep.; cf.: hunc (montem) [[murus]] circumdatus arcem efficit, id. ib. 1, 38, 6: aliquem consulem, Cic. Lael. 20, 73: aliquem dictatorem, id. Att. 15, 21; cf. also: quae res immani corporum magnitudine homines efficit, Caes. B. G. 4, 1, 9; and: id ([[genus]] radicis) ad similitudinem [[panis]] efficiebant, id. B. C. 3, 48, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ut: eniti et efficere, ut, etc., Cic. Lael. 16, 59; id. Rep. 1, 20; 3, 31; Caes. B. G. 2, 5, 5; 2, 17, 4 et saep.; cf.: hoc si efficiam [[plane]], ut, etc., Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 62: si id efficere non posset, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 50, 3: [[neque]] [[polliceor]] me effecturum, ut, etc., Cic. Rep. 1, 24 fin. —Ellips. of ut: effice, di coëamus in unum, Ov. F. 3, 683.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ne ([[rare]]): [[efficio]] ne cui molesti sint publicani, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16: qui efficiant, ne [[quid]] [[inter]] privatum et magistratum differat, id. Rep. 1, 43, 67; id. Fin. 4, 4, 10; Liv. 8, 7, 6: efficiam, [[posthac]] ne quemquam voce lacessas, Verg. E. 3, 51; Dig. 3, 3, 78; cf.: aliquem or aliquid, ne, etc., ib. 19, 2, 35; Quint. 3, 6, 102; 8, 3, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[quominus]] ([[very]] [[seldom]]), Lucr. 1, 977; Quint. 11, 1, 48; Dig. 49, 14, 29; so [[with]] quo [[magis]]: [[saevitia]] collegae quo is [[magis]] ingenio suo gauderet effecit, Liv. 2, 60, 1.—（ε) With obj. acc. and inf. ([[very]] [[rare]], and not [[ante]]-Aug.): [[vehementer]] efficit ea coire, etc., Vitr. 2, 6; Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 8; 47, 11, 10.—（ζ) Absol. (freq. and [[class]].): si effecero, Dabin' mihi [[argentum]]? Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 121; cf. id. ib. 4, 1, 39 sq.; 4, 8, 5; id. Pers. 1, 3, 87; Caes. B. G. 7, 26, 2 et saep.: se a scientiae delectatione ad efficiendi utilitatem referre, Cic. Rep. 5, 3.<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In econom. lang., to [[produce]], [[bear]], [[yield]]: ([[ager]] Leontinus) plurimum efficit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63 fin.; cf.: [[ager]] efficit cum octavo, cum decumo, id. ib. 2, 3, 47: si (vineae) centenos sestertios in singula jugera efficiant, Col. 3, 3, 3: cum matres binae ternos haedos efficiunt, id. 7, 6, 7.—Transf. to persons: liciti sunt [[usque]] eo, [[quoad]] se efficere posse arbitrabantur, i. e. to [[make]] a [[profit]], Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of numbers, to [[make]] [[out]], [[yield]], [[amount]] to a [[certain]] [[sum]]: ea (tributa) vix, in [[fenus]] [[Pompeii]] [[quod]] [[satis]] [[sit]], efficiunt, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3 (cf. [[shortly]] [[before]]: nec id [[satis]] efficit [al. efficitur] in usuram menstruam), Plin. 6, 33, 38, § 206; cf. ib. § 209; Col. 5, 2, 6; 8 sq.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In philos. lang., to [[make]] [[out]], [[show]], [[prove]] ([[with]] acc. and inf., ut, ne, or absol.): [[quod]] proposuit efficit, Cic. Par. prooem. § 2: in quibus (libris) vult efficere animos esse mortales, id. Tusc. 1, 31 fin.—In the [[pass]]. impers.: efficitur, it follows (from [[something]]): ita efficitur, ut omne [[corpus]] mortale [[sit]], id. N. D. 3, 12, 30: ex quo efficitur, hominem naturae obedientem homini nocere non posse, id. Tusc. 3, 5, 25; cf.: ex quo illud efficitur, ne justos [[quidem]] esse [[natura]], id. Rep. 3, 11: [[quid]] [[igitur]] efficitur? [[what]] follows from [[that]]? id. ib. 3, 12.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; effĭcĭens, entis, P. a.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Adj., effecting, [[effective]], [[efficient]].—In philos. lang.: [[proximus]] est [[locus]] rerum efficientium, quae causae appellantur: [[deinde]] rerum effectarum ab efficientibus causis, Cic. Top. 14 fin.; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 24; id. Fin. 3, 16, 55; id. Div. 1, 55, 125; id. Fat. 14, 33; Quint. 5, 10, 86. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Subst., [[with]] gen.: [[virtus]] [[efficiens]] utilitatis, the producer = [[effectrix]], Cic. Off. 3, 3, 12; so, voluptatis ([[virtus]]), id. ib. 3, 33; cf.: ea, quae sunt luxuriosis [[efficientia]] voluptatum, id. Fin. 2, 7, 21; and: (causae) efficientes pulcherrimarum rerum, id. Univ. 14 fin.—* Adv.: effĭcĭenter, [[efficiently]] (for [[which]] in the [[post]]-Aug. per., [[efficaciter]]): ut id ei [[causa]] [[sit]], [[quod]] cuique [[efficienter]] antecedat, Cic. Fat. 15, 34.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[effectus]], a, um, P. a., worked [[out]], i. e.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Effected, completed: una ([[materia]]) [[diligenter]] effecta [[plus]] proderit [[quam]] [[plures]] inchoatae et [[quasi]] degustatae, Quint. 10, 5, 23; cf. id. 5, 13, 34; 8, 3, 88.—In the comp.: aliquid nitidius [[atque]] effectius, Quint. 12, 10, 45.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Effected, in philos. lang. (opp. [[causa]] [[efficiens]]), Cic. Top. 18; cf. res, id. ib. 4; 14 fin.; and subst.: effectum, i, n., an [[effect]], id. ib. 3; Quint. 6, 3, 66; 5, 10, 94. —Adv.: [[effecte]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Effectively, in [[fact]], Mart. 2, 27, 3; Amm. 16, 5, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Effectually, [[efficaciously]]: effectius, App. Flor. 16, p. 357.—Sup. does not [[occur]].