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|lshtext=<b>ap-prŏbo</b>: (adp-, Fleck., Bait., Halm, Weissenb.; app-, Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.<br /><b>I</b> To [[assent]] to as [[good]], to [[regard]] as [[good]], to [[approve]], to [[favor]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn.: [[probo]], [[laudo]]): id si non [[fama]] adprobat, * Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 12: ([[populus]] Romanus) [[meum]] jus jurandum unā voce et consensu approbavit, Cic. Pis. 3, 7: approbatā laudatāque Cottae sententiā, id. Sest. 34, 74: aliquid magno clamore, id. Arch. 10, 24: legiones clamore [[donum]] adprobantes, Liv. 7, 37; 7, 41: [[consilium]] [[vehementer]] adprobare, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 3, 4 et saep.—So of the gods, to [[allow]] a [[thing]] to [[take]] [[place]], to [[favor]] (cf. [[admitto]], II. B.): [[quod]] [[actum]] est di adprobent, Cic. Fam. 2, 15; 1, 9, 19: musis omnibus adprobantibus, id. ib. 7, 23, 2; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 13.—<br /><b>II</b> To [[show]] as [[being]] [[good]] and true, to [[make]] [[evident]], to [[prove]], [[demonstrate]], [[confirm]], [[establish]]: hoc [[autem]] [[nihil]] attinet approbari, Cic. Inv. 1, 36 fin.: innocentiam adprobare, Tac. A. 1, 44: excusationem, id. Agr. 42.—With acc. and inf.: vivere eos approbant, Plin. 9, 57, 83: quo [[magis]] degenerāsse eum a civili [[more]] approbaret, Suet. Aug. 17: Cajo talem et se et exercitum approbavit, ut, etc., Suet. Galb. 6 al.—<br /><b>III</b> Aliquid alicui adprobare, to [[make]] [[good]] to one, to [[render]] [[acceptable]], [[satisfactory]]: [[opus]] manu [[factum]] regi adprobavit, Vitr. 9, 3: prima castrorum rudimenta duci adprobavit, his [[first]] [[military]] duties he [[learned]] to the [[satisfaction]] of his [[commander]], Tac. Agr. 5; Dig. 19, 2, 24; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 7, 63.