ex-hĭbĕo — Lewis & Short
ex-hĭbĕo (ex-ibeo, v. Brix. ad ŭi, itum, 2, v. a.habeo; lit., to hold out, reach out; hence,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 37),I To hold forth, tender, present; to deliver, give up, produce (class.; syn.: praebeo, porrigo, praesto, tribuo, ministro, do, dono, dedo, etc.).
A Lit.: ait Praetor: QVEM HOMINEM DOLO MALO RETINES, EXHIBEAS.... Exhibere est in publicum producere, et videndi tangendique hominis facultatem praebere;
proprie autem exhibere est extra secretum habere,Dig. 43, 29, 1 and 3, § 8: jam periculum est ne cogantur ad exhibendum formulam accipere, i. e. to acknowledge legal notice, etc. Sen. Ep. 50, 1:
alicui omnia integra,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 63:
exhibe librarium illud legum vestrarum,id. Mil. 12, 33:
pallium,Petr. 15:
tabulas testamenti,Suet. Vit. 14:
rationes,Dig. 40, 5, 41 fin.:
fratres exhibe,Cic. Fl. 15, 35; so,
fugitivos apud magistratus,Dig. 11, 4, 1:
aliquem apud acta,ib. 2, 4, 17:
debitorem in judicium,ib. 12, 2, 28 quadringentos senatores ad ferrum, Suet. Ner. 12 et saep.:
vias tutas,i. e. to make safe, Ov. Pont. 4, 5, 34:
toros,i. e. to furnish, allow, id. H. 17, 194:
exhibuit querulos ore gemente sonos,uttered, id. Tr. 3, 11, 54.—
B Transf.
1 To show, to display, to exhibit:
exhibuit gemino praesignia tempora cornu,Ov. M. 15, 611:
notam linguae,id. ib. 14, 526: exhibuit linguam paternam, displayed, i. e. used the language of her father, id. ib. 6, 213:
faciem sucumque,Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 41:
malui me tribunum omnibus exhibere quam paucis advocatum,Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 4:
se ministratorem alicui,Suet. Vit. 17:
se adorandum adeuntibus,id. Calig. 22 (but not in Cic. Sest. 50, 107, where the right reading is praebuit, v. Halm. ad h. l.).—In the latter (reflexive) sense sometimes without se:
quid me putas populo nostro exhibiturum?how I shall exhibit, show myself, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 18; cf.:
qui vere civilem virum exhibeat,shows, proves himself, Quint. 12, 2, 7 Spald.; Ov. M. 6, 44:
pro fratre hostem exhibuit,Just. 27, 2.—
(b) To show, confer (late Lat.):
alicui honorem,Aug. Serm. 46, 7.—
2 To maintain, support, sustain (post-class.;
esp. freq. in jurid. Lat.): si quis a liberis ali desideret, vel liberi, ut a parente exhibeantur,Dig. 25, 3, 5; so,
aliquem,ib. 1, 12, 1; 3, 5, 33 al.; cf.:
Scythas alimentis,Just. 9, 2:
vitam,id. 11, 10; 22, 1.
II To show, exhibit, employ; to procure, occasion, cause:
rem salvam exhibebo,I will set it all right, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 51: quorum virtus exhibet solidum decus, Phaedr. 4, 23, 24:
vocis fidem,id. 3, 19 Epil. 9:
munificentiam,Suet. Tib. 48:
liberalitatem, clementiam, comitatem,id. Ner. 10; cf.:
liberalitatem et justitiam,Plin. Pan. 33, 2:
vicem spodii,i.e. to supply the place of, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 125; cf.:
vicem testamenti,Dig. 29, 6, 16:
humanitatem,to exercise, exhibit, Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 2:
diligentiam,Dig. 18, 6, 2:
imperium,to exercise, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 57:
alicui molestiam,to cause, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 2; Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 3; id. Capt. 4, 2, 37:
negotium hominibus,to produce, occasion, id. Poen. 1, 2, 30; cf.:
qui deum nihil habere ipsum negotii (dicunt), nihil exhibere alteri,Cic. Off. 3, 28, 102; id. ib. 3, 31, 112:
negotium alicui,Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 14; id. Most. 3, 1, 38; id. Men. 5, 9, 13; id. Pers. 2, 5, 14;
and once reflexively: jam se exhibebit hic mihi negotium,will present itself, id. Rud. 2, 6, 72:
argutias mihi,id. Most. 1, 1, 2:
difficilem laborem alicui,Col. 5, 5, 17:
curam alicui,Tib. 2, 1, 61 et saep.