subscribo

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sub-scrībo: psi, ptum, 3, v. a.
I To write underneath or below (class.; cf. subnoto).
   A In gen.: statuis inauratis ... subscripsit, Reges ab se in gratiam esse reductos, Cic. Clu. 36, 101; cf.: subscripsere quidam L. Bruti statuae: utinam viveres, etc., Suet. Caes. 80: si quaeret Pater Urbium Subscribi statuis, Hor. C. 3, 24, 28; cf.: meo subscribi causa sepulcro, Ov. M. 9, 563: quarum (litterarum) exemplum subscripsi, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 13, A, § 1; Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 3; cf.: seminaria ulmorum parentur eā ratione, quam deinceps subscripsimus, Col. 5, 6, 5.—
   B In partic.
   1    Jurid. t. t., to write down, sign, or subscribe one's name to an accusation (either as principal prosecutor or as seconding others), together with the ground of the charge; hence, in gen., to charge, accuse, prosecute: in L. Popillium subscripsit L. Gellius, quod is pecuniam accepisset, quo innocentem condemnaret, Cic. Clu. 47, 131; cf.: quia parricidii causa subscripta esset, id. Inv. 2, 19, 58: Gabinium de ambitu reum fecit P. Sulla, subscribente privigno Memmio, fratre Caecilio, etc., id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 2; cf.: Capito Agrippae subscripsit in C. Cassium, Vell. 2, 69, 5; and: accusanti patrono subscripsit, Suet. Rhet. 3; Nep. Att. 6, 3: cras subscribam homini dicam, Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 5: in crimen, Dig. 47, 1, 3; 47, 2, 92: in crimine, ib. 48, 10, 24.—
   2    Publicists' t. t., of the censor, to write down, set down, note down the reason of his official censure under or against the name of the person censured: video animadvertisse censores in judices quosdam illius consilii Juniani, cum istam ipsam causam subscriberent, Cic. Clu. 42, 119: censor C. Ateium notavit, quod ementitum auspicia subscripsit, id. Div. 1, 16, 29: haec quae de judicio corrupto subscripserint, etc., id. Clu. 45, 127: ac primum illud statuamus, utrum quia censores subscripserint, ita sit; an quia ita fuerit, illi subscripserint, id. ib. 44, 123: quod censores de ceteris subscripserunt, Quint. 5, 13, 33.—
   3    To sign, subscribe a document (by appending one's name or a formula of greeting; perh. not ante-Aug.): omnes (tutores) debent unius editioni subscribere, Dig. 2, 13, 6: rationibus, testamento, ib. 40, 7, 40; for which, also, rationes, ib. 35, 1, 80 fin.; 34, 3, 12: si subscripserit in tabulis emptionis, concessisse videtur, ib. 20, 6, 8 fin.: cum de supplicio cujusdam capite damnati, ut ex more subscriberet, admoneretur, Suet. Ner. 10; id. Calig. 29: ipse Commodus in subscribendo tardus et neglegens, ita ut libellis una forma multis subscriberet, in epistolis autem plurimis Vale tantum scriberet, Lampr. Commod. 13; Suet. Tib. 32 Wolf (cf. Dio, 57, 11).—
   b Transf.
   (a)    To assent to, agree to, approve of any thing: nec quicquam prius pro potestate subscripsit, quam quingenties sestertium ad peragendam Auream domum, Suet. Oth. 7: Caesaris irae, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 3: aut gratiae aut odio suo, Phaedr. 3, 10, 57: odiis accusationibusque Hannibalis, Liv. 33, 47: orationi alicujus, id. 10, 22: luxuriae, Cels. 3, 4: si fortuna voto subscripserit, Col. 1, 2, 3: tuo desiderio, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 95 (96): amoribus alicujus, Val. Max. 4, 7, 4.—
   (b)    To grant, allow, accord a thing to any one (post-class.), Tert. Virg. Vel. 10; id. Idol. 13; id. Anim. 40.—
II (With the idea of the verb predom.) To write or note down (=notare; very rare): numerum aratorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 51, § 120: audita, Quint. 12, 8, 8: quaedam, Suet. Aug. 27; cf.: suspiria nostra (a delatoribus), Tac. Agr. 45 (acc. to others this passage belongs to B. 1.).