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|lshtext=<b>autŭmo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. for aitumo, as a lengthened form of aio; cf. negumo for [[nego]]; for the [[termination]] -tumo, cf. aes, [[aestimo]], q. v., aeditumus, finitumus, and maritumus.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., to [[say]] [[aye]], to [[affirm]] ([[mostly]] of [[questionable]] assertions, Ellis ad Cat. 44, 2; opp. [[nego]], to [[say]] [[nay]]); [[hence]], to [[assert]], [[aver]], [[say]], [[name]] ([[chiefly]] anteclass.; esp. freq. in Plaut.; syn.: [[dico]], [[affirmo]], [[confirmo]]; used [[only]] [[once]] by Ter. and Hor., and [[never]] by Cic., Lucr., or Verg.): Ipsus [[sese]] ut neget esse eum qui siet, Meque ut esse autumet qui ipsus est, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 21: [[factum]] id esse hic non negat... et [[deinde]] facturum autumat, * Ter. Heaut. prol. 19: flexa non falsa autumare [[dictio]] Delphis solet, Pac. ap. Non. p. 237, 3; so Lucil. ib.: aut hic est aut hic [[affore]] [[actutum]] [[autumo]], id. ib.: quas (res) si autumem [[omnis]], [[nimis]] [[longus]] sermost, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 8; id. Am. 1, 1, 150; 1, 1, 260; id. Capt. 4, 2, 105; 4, 2, 117; 5, 2, 2; 5, 2, 8; id. Ep. 5, 1, 37; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 24; id. Men. prol. 8; id. Merc. 5, 2, 103; id. Pers. 1, 3, 71; 2, 2, 32; id. Ps. 4, 2, 28; id. Rud. 3, 3, 42; id. Trin. 2, 2, 48; 3, 2, 77; 3, 3, 15: te esse Tiburtem autumant, * Cat. 44, 2; Hor. S. 2, 3, 45: ab Elissā Tyriā, [[quam]] [[quidam]] [[Dido]] autumant, [[Carthago]] conditur, Vell. 1, 6, 4 Halm.—In [[pass]].: [[quasi]] salsa muriatica esse autumantur, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 32.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., [[effect]] for [[cause]], to [[think]], [[believe]]: [[bene]] [[quam]] meritam esse autumas, Dicis [[male]] mereri, auct. ap. Cic. Or. 49, 166; id. Top. 13, 55 (Trag. Rel. p. 265 Rib.).