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|lshtext=<b>percontor</b>: (percunct-), ātus, 1 (<br /><b>I</b> inf. percontarier, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 78; id. As. 2, 2, 76; id. Cas. 3, 3, 8; id. Most. 4, 2, 47 al.), v. dep. a. and n. per and [[root]] cunc-; Sanscr. canc- (canka, [[hesitation]]); cf. [[ὄκνος]] for κόκνος, to [[ask]] [[particularly]], to [[question]] [[strictly]], to [[inquire]], [[interrogate]], [[investigate]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[interrogo]], [[sciscitor]]).—Constr.: aliquem de aliquā re, aliquem and interrog.[[clause]], aliquem [[alone]]; also, aliquid ab ([[rarely]] ex) [[aliquo]] and absol.; also aliquem aliquid: cocum percontabatur, possent, etc., Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 9: percontari hanc paucis hic [[volt]], id. Pers. 4, 4, 49: percontarier, [[utrum]], etc., id. Bacch. 4, 1, 4: me [[infit]] percontarier, ecquem noverim Demaenetum, id. As. 2, 2, 76: dum [[percontor]] portitores, ecquae [[navis]] venerit, id. Stich. 2, 2, 42: percontare te perpetuisne malis voluptatibus perfruens ... degere aetatem, Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 118: singulos percontari, cum quā [[sit]] [[aliqui]] deprensus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 7, 2: Porum percontatur an [[verum]] esset, Curt. 9, 2, 5: spadonem ... num [[quid]] velit dicere, id. 5, 11, 4: Caesarem an, etc., Tac. A. 12, 5; 4, 17; id. H. 4, 82; Just. 11, 7, 6: nutricem, [[quid]] hoc rei [[sit]], Liv. 3, 48, 4: tu [[numquam]] mihi percontanti aut quaerenti aliquid defuisti, Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 97; 2, 71: percontando [[atque]] interrogando elicere alicujus opinionem, Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 2: percontari ab [[aliquo]], id. Ac. 1, 1, 2: ab adversariis percontabitur, [[quid]], etc., Auct. Her. 2, 15, 22; Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 1: ab eo percontaretur, Curt. 6, 7, 27: cum percontaretur ex aniculā quādam, quanti aliquid venderet, Cic. Brut. 46, 72; cf. id. Div. 2, 36, 76: ex his scribis percontamini [[quid]] velint, etc., id. Verr. 2, 3, 79, § 183: aliquem ex [[aliquo]], to [[ask]] a [[person]] [[respecting]] [[another]], Plaut. As. 2, 4, 95: aliquem de aliquā re, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9: peritos de ascensu Haemi, Liv. 40, 21, 3: pauca percunctatus de statu civitatis, Sall. C. 40, 2: aliquem aliquid, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 47; id. Aul. 2, 2, 33; Liv. 39, 12, 1: quae percunctare eum [[magistratus]] vellent, id. 39, 49, 12; Tac. A. 15, 60; Curt. 5, 11, 8: [[meum]] si [[quis]] te percontabitur [[aevum]], Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 26.—<br /><b>II</b> To [[find]] [[out]] by [[inquiry]], App. M. p. 113, 8.