commereo: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>com-mĕrĕo</b>: ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[merit]] [[fully]], to [[deserve]] [[something]]; usu. in a [[bad]] [[sense]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: interrogabatur [[reus]], [[quam]] [[quasi]] aestimationem commeruisse se [[maxime]] confiteretur, Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 232: poenam, Ov. Tr. 2, 4: [[numquam]] [[sciens]] commerui [[merito]] ut caperet [[odium]] illam mei, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 4.—<br /><b>II</b> Meton. ([[with]] culpam, etc.; antecedens pro consequenti; [[prop]]. to [[earn]], [[acquire]], [[bring]] to or [[upon]] one's [[self]]), to [[err]] in [[something]], to [[commit]] an [[offence]] or [[crime]], be [[guilty]] of, [[perpetrate]] ([[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]].): noxiam, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 56: aliquem Castigare pro conmeritā noxiā, id. Trin. 1, 1, 4: culpam in se, id. Merc. 4, 6, 10: [[quid]] ego de te conmerui mali? id. Aul. 4, 10, 5: [[neque]] te conmeruisse culpam, id. Capt. 2, 3, 43; so, culpam, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 29: commerere in se aliquid mali, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 59; cf.: [[quid]] commerui aut peccavi? Ter. And. 1, 1, 112; cf.: [[quid]] placidae commeruistis oves? Ov. F. 1, 362.