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mendico

mendico, to beg, ask alms

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mendicans Verb: present active participle feminine vocative singular, Verb: present active participle masculine nominative singular, Verb: present active participle masculine vocative singular, Verb: present active participle feminine nominative singular, Verb: present active participle neuter accusative singular, Verb: present active participle neuter vocative singular, Verb: present active participle neuter nominative singular of mendico

See mendicans in Morpho

mendico, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., and mendīcor, ātus sum (archaic inf. mendicarier, Plaut. Capt. prol. 13), 1, v. dep. [mendicus],
  • to beg, ask for alms, go a-begging; to beg for something, solicit, obtain by begging; constr. absol. and with acc. (poet. and post-class.): mendicantem vivere, to live by begging. Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 73 (323): quando histrionem cogis mendicarier, id. ib. prol. 13; mendicum malim mendicando vincere, id. ib. 3, 4, 16 (548).—Act.: a me mendicas malum, Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 12 (1032): aliquid mendicare, Ap. Apol. p. 287, 1.—Poet.: ejectis mendicat silva Camenis, i.e. is full of beggars, Juv. 3, 16.—Part. in pass. sense: mendicatus victa Karthagine panis, Juv. 10, 277.

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