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|lshtext=<b>ex-opto</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[wish]] or [[desire]] [[greatly]], to [[long]] for a [[thing]] ([[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: quae majori parti pulcherrima videntur, ea [[maxime]] exoptant, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: Samnitium adventum, Liv. 9, 25, 5: illum exoptavit [[potius]]? Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 3: aliquid, id. As. 3, 3, 133: omnes te oderunt, [[tibi]] pestem exoptant, [[wish]] [[you]], Cic. Pis. 40, 96.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf.-[[clause]] as [[object]]: multis de causis te [[exopto]] [[quam]] [[primum]] videre, Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 3: aemulari neglegentiam alicuius, Ter. And. prol. 20 ([[but]] not in Enn. Ann., [[where]] the [[better]] [[read]]. is laudarier optans, v. Vahl. p. 80).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ut: omnium hominum [[exopto]] ut fiam miserorum miserrimus, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 65: ut sempiternae laudi [[tibi]] [[sit]] [[iste]] [[tribunatus]] [[exopto]], Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: [[neque]] nobis cupientibus [[atque]] exoptantibus [[fructus]] otii [[datus]] est, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—Hence, exoptātus, a, um, P. a., [[greatly]] wished or [[desired]], longed for: [[edepol]] me uxori exoptatum [[credo]] adventurum domum, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 22; id. Truc. 2, 6, 33; id. Capt. 5, 4, 9; id. Curc. 2, 3, 27: Antiphila, maxume [[animo]] exoptata meo, Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 28: ut exoptatum [[inimico]] nuntium [[primus]] adferret, Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: erit et [[tibi]] exoptatum optinget, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 20; id. As. 3, 3, 136.—Comp.: [[nihil]] exoptatius adventu meo, Cic. Att. 5, 15, 1.—Sup.: o mi [[ere]] exoptatissume, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 65: [[gratulatio]], Cic. Att. 4, 1, 2.—Adv. seems not to [[occur]].

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