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|lshtext=<b>commentor</b>: ātus [[sum]], 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. freq. dep. [[comminiscor]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop., to [[consider]] [[thoroughly]], [[meditate]], [[think]] [[over]], [[study]], [[deliberate]], [[weigh]], [[prepare]] one's [[self]] mentally, etc. ([[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Ingen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: ut [[cito]] commentatus est, i. e. has made up a [[story]], Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 27: cum in hortos D. Bruti auguris commentandi causā convenissemus, [[deliberation]], Cic. Lael. 2, 7: magi, qui congregantur in [[fano]] commentandi causā, id. Div. 1, 41, 90.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: te ipsum, qui multos annos [[nihil]] aliud commentaris, docebo [[quid]] [[sit]] [[humaniter]] vivere, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 5: commentari aliquid et discere, id. Fin. 5, 15, 42: futuras [[mecum]] commentabar miserias, id. poët. Tusc. 3, 14, 29.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With interrog. [[clause]]: ut commentemur [[inter]] nos, quā ratione nobis traducendum [[sit]] hoc [[tempus]], Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With de: multos [[mensis]] de populi Romani libertate, Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 36.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the [[orator]]'s [[preparation]] for a [[speech]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Absol.: ad quem [[paratus]] venerat, cum in villā Metelli compluris [[dies]] commentatus esset, Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 1: [[itaque]] videas barbato rostro eum commentari, Varr. ap. Non. p. 455, 19: [[crebro]] digitorum labrorumque motu commentari, Quint. 11, 3, 160.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> With acc.: ut quae [[secum]] commentatus esset, ea [[sine]] scripto redderet eisdem verbis quibus cogitasset, Cic. Brut. 88, 301: quae mihi [[iste]] [[visus]] est ex aliā oratione declamare, [[quam]] in [[alium]] reum commentaretur, id. Rosc. Am. 29, 82.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of writings, to [[prepare]], [[produce]] as the [[result]] of [[study]], [[write]] ([[rare]]): quorum [[alter]] commentatus est mimos, Cic. Phil. 6, 13: eo ipso [[anno]] cum commentaremur haec, Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 209: [[Cato]] de militari disciplinā commentans, id. praef. § 30.— With acc., to [[discuss]], [[write]] [[upon]]: [[neque]] commentari quae audierat fas erat, Gell. 1, 9, 4; cf.: carmina legendo commentando, que [[etiam]] ceteris [[nota]] facere, Suet. Gram. 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of the [[oratorical]] [[student]]'s [[practice]] in [[speaking]] ([[always]] [[with]] [[reference]] to the [[mental]] [[exertion]] and [[preparation]]; cf. Jan. ad Cic. Brut. 22, 87): commentabar declamitans, sic [[enim]] [[nunc]] loquuntur, [[saepe]] cum M. Pisone, Cic. Brut. 90, 310: exisse eo colore et eis oculis, ut egisse causam, non commentatum putares, id. ib. 22, 87 fin.: [[magister]] hic Samnitium summā jam senectute est et [[cottidie]] commentatur, id. de Or. 3, 23, 86 Sorof ad loc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Hence, as a [[modest]] [[expression]] for a [[speaker]]'s [[effort]], to [[experiment]] in [[speaking]], [[attempt]] to [[speak]]: satisne [[vobis]] videor pro meo jure in vestris auribus commentatus? Cic. Fin. 5, 25, 75 Orell. and Madv. ad loc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[imitate]], [[adopt]] the [[language]] of [[another]]: Achilem Aristarchi mihi commentari [[lubet]], Plaut. Poen. prol. 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> To [[meditate]], [[purpose]]: si cogitaras id, [[quod]] [[illa]] tropaea plena dedecoris et risūs te commentatum esse declarant, Cic. Pis. 40, 97.<br /><b>commentor</b>: ōris, m. [[comminiscor]],<br /><b>I</b> one [[who]] devises or invents [[something]], an [[inventor]]: uvae, i. e. [[Bacchus]], Ov. F. 3, 785: fraudis, Auct. Ep. Iliad. 579: [[machinarius]], a machinist, Scl. 5, § 13 Momms. (al. [[commentator]]).