addecet
Ἡμερὶ πανθέλκτειρα, μεθυτρόφε, μῆτερ ὀπώρας ... → All-soothing vine, nurse of the wine, vintage's mother ... (Anthologia Palatina 7.24.1)
Latin > English
addecet V IMPERS :: it is fitting/proper, it behooves
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ad-dĕcet: ēre, 2,
I v. impers. [ad, intens.], it behooves, it becomes, it is fit or proper that (used only in Enn. and Plaut., in the latter very often), constr. with acc. or with acc. and inf.: sed virum virtute vera vivere animatum addecet, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 17, 10 (Trag. v. 338, ed. Vahl.; Rib. p. 52): ut matrem addecet familias, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 80: meo me aequum est morigerum patri, ejus studio servire addecet, id. Am. 3, 4, 21; nam peculi probam nihil habere addecet Clam virum, id. Cas. 2, 2, 26; so id. Bacch. 1, 2, 20; id. Most. 4, 2, 21; id. Ps. 1, 5, 156; id. Trin. 1, 2, 41.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
addĕcet,¹⁴ impers., il convient, aliquem, à qqn : [avec inf.] te mutum esse addecet Pl. Bacch. 128, il convient que tu sois muet, cf. Enn. Scen. 300 ; Pl. Amph. 1004 ; Cas. 199 ; Most. 902, etc.
Latin > German (Georges)
ad-decet, es ziemt-, es schickt-, es gebührt sich, ut matrem addecet familias, Plaut. merc. 415: u. add. alqm m. folg. Infin., Enn. tr. 338 (257). Plaut. Amph. 1004; trin. 78. P. Syr. 434. Sen. Oedip. 298.
