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|lshtext=<b>ulciscor</b>: [[ultus]], 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. [[inch]]. dep. [etym. dub.].<br /><b>I</b> To [[avenge]] one's [[self]] on, [[take]] [[vengeance]] on, or [[punish]] for [[wrong]] done ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].; cf.: [[vindico]], [[punio]], [[persequor]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> With a [[personal]] [[object]]: ego pol illum ulciscar [[hodie]] Thessalum veneficum, Qui, etc., Plaut. Am. 4, 5, 9: ego illum [[fame]], ego illum Siti, maledictis, malefactis, amatorem Ulciscar, id. Cas. 2, 1, 10: inimicos, id. Trin. 3, 1, 18: aliquem pro scelere, Caes. B. G. 1, 14: ulciscendi Romanos pro iis, quas acceperant, injuriis [[occasio]], id. ib. 5, 38: odi hominem et odero: [[utinam]] ulcisci possem! sed illum ulciscentur [[mores]] sui, Cic. Att. 9, 12, 2: [[numquam]] illum res publica suo jure esset ulta, id. Mil. 33, 88: quos ego non tam ulcisci [[studeo]], [[quam]] sanare, id. Cat. 2, 8, 17: quos intellegis non, ut per te [[alium]], sed ut per [[alium]] aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur, laborare, id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22: victos acerbius, Sall. J. 42, 4: [[Alphesiboea]] suos ulta est pro conjuge fratres, Prop. 1, 15, 15 (19): ulta pellicem, Hor. Epod. 3, 13; 5, 63; cf.: inimici ulciscendi causā, Cic. Inv. 2, 5, 18: ejus casūs, quem ulciscitur, Quint. 6, 1, 18.—Absol.: has [[tris]] ulciscendi rationes [[Taurus]] scriptas reliquit, Gell. 7, 14, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[take]] [[revenge]] for, to [[avenge]], [[punish]] [[injustice]], wrongs, etc.; [[with]] a non-[[personal]] [[object]]: quā in re [[Caesar]] non [[solum]] publicas sed [[etiam]] privatas injurias [[ultus]] est, Caes. B. G. 1, 12: statuerunt, istius injurias per vos ulcisci, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 9; id. Fam. 12, 1, 2: injurias rei publicae, id. Phil. 6, 1, 2: Etruscorum injurias [[bello]], id. Rep. 2, 21, 38: cum alii ulcisci dolorem aliquem suum vellent, id. Sest. 20, 46: injuriam, id. Verr. 2, 1, 28, § 72: peccata peccatis et injurias injuriis, id. Inv. 2, 27, 81 al.; cf.: ultum [[ire]] injurias festinare, to [[proceed]] to [[revenge]], to [[revenge]], Sall. J. 68, 1: ultum [[ire]] scelera et injurias, Quint. 11, 1, 42: istius nefarium [[scelus]], Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 68: patrui mortem, id. Rab. Perd. 5, 14: senis iracundiam, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12: offensas tuas, Ov. Tr. 2, 134: barbaras Regum libidines, Hor. C. 4, 12, 8: illatum a [[Persis]] Graeciae [[bellum]], Just. 2, 15, 13.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., [[with]] the [[person]] to whom [[wrong]] has been done as the [[object]], to [[take]] [[vengeance]] for, to [[avenge]] a [[person]] ([[much]] [[less]] freq. [[but]] [[class]].): quos nobis poëtae tradiderunt patris ulciscendi causā [[supplicium]] de matre sumpsisse, Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 66; Auct. Her. 1, 16, 26: caesos fratres, Ov. M. 12, 603: fratrem, id. ib. 8, 442: patrem justa per [[arma]], id. F. 3, 710: [[numen]] utrumque, id. ib. 5, 574: cadentem patriam, Verg. A. 2, 576: quibus (armis) possis te ulcisci [[lacessitus]], Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 32: se, id. Mil. 14, 38; id. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87; Plin. Ep. 8, 7, 2; Ov. M. 7, 397; id. P. 1, 8, 20: [[Hannibal]] se a transfugis [[ultus]] est, Front. Strat. 3, 16, 4.— Transf., of things: a ferro [[sanguis]] [[humanus]] se ulciscitur: contactum [[namque]] eo celerius [[subinde]] rubiginem trahit, Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 146.—With the [[two]] constructions combined: non [[hercle]] ego is [[sum]], qui [[sum]], ni hanc injuriam meque [[ultus]] [[pulcre]] fuero, Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 7.!*?<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Act. collat. form [[ulcisco]], ĕre: [[nisi]] patrem materno [[sanguine]] exanclando ulciscerem, Enn. ap. Non. 292, 16 (Trag. v. 184 Vahl.).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[ulciscor]], ci, in a [[passive]] signif.: [[quicquid]] [[sine]] [[sanguine]] civium ulcisci nequitur, jure [[factum]] [[sit]], Sall. J. 31, 8: ob iras [[graviter]] ultas, [[graviter]] ultae, Liv 2, 17, 7; so, [[ultus]], avenged, Val. Fl. 4, 753: ulta ossa patris, Ov. H. 8, 120.