dē-pendĕo — Lewis & Short
dē-pendĕo, ēre,
I v. a., to hang from or on, to hang down (not freq. till the Aug. period; not in Cic. and Caes.—for syn. cf.: pendeo, impendeo).
I Lit.:
(anellus) unus ex uno,Lucr. 6, 915; cf.:
sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus,Verg. A. 6, 301:
dependente a cervicibus pugione,Suet. Galb. 11:
dependent lychni laquearibus aureis,Verg. A. 1, 726:
galea ramis,id. ib. 10, 836:
parma laevo lacerto,id. ib. 11, 693:
hasta umero,Quint. 11, 3, 130:
serta tectis,Ov. M. 4, 760:
cervina vellera lateri sinistro,id. ib. 6, 593:
cui coma dependet,id. A. A. 1, 224:
laqueo dependentem invenere,Liv. 42, 28 fin.:
dependente brachio,Suet. Caes. 82; Ov. F. 3, 267:
nec dependes nec propendes,i. e. weighest neither less nor more, Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 39.—
II Trop.
A (Only in Ovid.) To be dependent on or wait for a thing:
promissa tarda videntur, dependetque fides a veniente die,Ov. F. 3, 356.—
B To be dependent on, to be governed by:
ex horum (siderum) motibus fortunae populorum dependent,Sen. ad Marc. 18, 3.—
C To depend on, be derived from:
ex hoc malo dependet illud teterrimum vitium,id. Tranq. An. 12, 7:
haec (membra) ex illis (elementis) dependent, illa et horum causae sunt et omnia,id. Ep. 95, 12.—Hence of etymol. dependence, i. e. to be derived: hujus et augurium dependet origine verbi (sc. augustus) Et quodcumque sua Juppiter auget ope, Ov. F. 1, 611.