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|lshtext=<b>portendo</b>: di, tum, 3 (<br /><b>I</b> inf. pres. portendier, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 4), v. a. an archaic collat. form in relig. lang. of [[protendo]], to [[stretch]] [[forth]], to [[point]] [[out]], [[indicate]] ([[future]] events, misfortunes, etc.), to [[foretell]], [[predict]], [[presage]], [[portend]] (cf.: [[ostendo]], [[monstro]]): ea (auspicia) illis exeuntibus in aciem portendisse deos, Liv. 30, 32, 9; cf.: di immortales mihi sacrificanti ... [[laeta]] omnia prosperaque portendere, id. 31, 7 fin.: magnitudinem imperii portendens [[prodigium]], id. 1, 55: [[populo]] commutationem rerum portendit [[fore]], Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: [[triginta]] annos Cyrum regnaturum esse portendi, Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46: [[quod]] [[portentum]] regni ruinam portendebat, of an [[earthquake]], Just. 17, 1, 3.—Pass., to be indicated (by a [[sign]]), to [[threaten]], [[impend]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Usually of [[bad]] [[fortune]], [[loss]], [[injury]], etc.: nobis [[periculum]] magnum portenditur, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 27: haruspices [[dudum]] dicebant mihi, [[malum]] damnumque maximum portendier, id. Poen. 3, 5, 4; cf.: [[malum]] [[quod]] in [[quiete]] [[tibi]] [[portentum]] est, id. Curc. 2, 2, 22: [[quod]] in extis nostris [[portentum]] est, id. Poen. 5, 4, 35.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[good]] [[fortune]], etc.: salvos [[sum]]: [[libertas]] portenditur, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 38: [[quid]] spei Latinis portendi? Liv. 1, 50. —Hence, [[portentum]], i, n., a [[sign]], token, [[omen]], [[portent]] (syn.: [[ostentum]], [[prodigium]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ex quo [[illa]] ostenta, monstra, portenta, prodigia dicuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7; cf. Fest. p. 245 Müll.; and Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.: nam si [[quod]] [[raro]] [[fit]], id [[portentum]] putandum est, sapientem esse [[portentum]] est, Cic. Div. 2, 28, 61: [[portentum]] inusitatum conflatum est [[recens]], Poët. ap. Gell. 15, 4: alii portenta [[atque]] prodigia nunciabant, Sall. C. 30, 2: ne quaere [[profecto]], Quem casum portenta ferant, Verg. A. 8, 533.—Of miracles, Vulg. Heb. 2, 4; id. Deut. 34, 11; cf. id. Marc. 13, 22.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[monster]], [[monstrosity]]: [[cetera]] de genere hoc quae sunt portenta perempta, Lucr. 5, 37; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 11: quale [[portentum]] [[neque]] [[militaris]] Daunias latis alit aesculetis Nec, etc., id. C. 1, 22, 13: quae virgineo portenta sub inguine latrant, i. e. the dogs of [[Scylla]], Ov. Am. 2, 16, 23: [[praeter]] naturam hominum pecudumque portentis, [[monstrous]] births, monsters, Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14; cf.: bovem quendam putari deum, multaque [[alia]] portenta [[apud]] eosdem, id. Rep. 3, 9, 14.—Trop., in a [[moral]] [[sense]], a [[monster]] of [[depravity]]: P. [[Clodius]], fatale [[portentum]] prodigiumque rei publicae, Cic. Pis. 4, 9: [[Gabinius]] et [[Piso]], duo rei publicae portenta ac [[paene]] funera, id. Prov. Cons. 1, 2: qualia [[demens]] [[Aegyptus]] portenta colat, Juv. 15, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[marvellous]] or [[extravagant]] [[fiction]], a [[strange]] [[tale]], a [[wonderful]] [[story]]: [[cetera]] de genere hoc monstra et portenta locuntur, Lucr. 4, 590: poëtarum et pictorum portenta, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11: [[portentum]] [[atque]] [[monstrum]] certissimum est, esse aliquem humanā specie et figurā, qui [[tantum]] immanitate bestias vicerit, id. Rosc. Am. 22, 63: portenta [[atque]] praestigias scribere, Gell. 10, 12, 6.

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