impendeo — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 3 · 3.99/10k
In L. Catilinam 5 · 3.98/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 2 · 3.9/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Pro P. Sestio 4 · 2.38/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 2 · 1.9/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

impendĕo — Lewis & Short

impendĕo (inp-), ēre, v. n. and (anteclass.)

I a. [in-pendeo], to hang over any thing, to overhang (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf. immineo).

I Lit.

a Neutr.: arbor in aedes illius impendet, Dig. 43, 26, 1: ut (gladius) impenderet illius beati cervicibus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62: poëtae impendere apud inferos saxum Tantalo faciunt, id. ib. 4, 16, 35; id. Fin. 1, 18, 60; cf. Lucr. 3, 980: nucem impendere super tegulas, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 14; Lucr. 6, 564; cf.: impendentium montium altitudines, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98.—

b Act.: nec, mare quae impendent, vesco sale saxa peresa, etc., Lucr. 1, 326.—

II Trop., to hang or hover over a thing, to impend, to be near or imminent, to threaten.

a Neutr., constr. in aliquem, alicui, or absol.

(a) With in aliquem: tantae in te impendent ruinae, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 77: licet undique omnes in me terrores impendeant, Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31.—

(b) With dat.: nunc jam alia cura impendet pectori, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 32: omnibus semper aliqui talis terror impendet, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 35: poenas impendere iis, a quibus, etc., id. Rep. 3, 11 fin.: quid sibi impenderet, coepit suspicari, id. Clu. 24, 66.—

(g) Absol.: nimborum nocte coortā Inpendent atrae formidinis ora superne, Lucr. 4, 174; 6, 254: quae vero aderant jam et impendebant, quonam modo ea depellere potuissetis? Cic. Mil. 28, 76; cf.: ut ea, quae partim jam assunt, partim impendent moderate feramus, id. Fam. 4, 14, 1: dum impendere Parthi videbantur, id. Att. 6, 6, 3: tanta malorum impendet *)ilia/s, id. ib. 8, 11, 3: belli magni timor impendet, id. Fam. 2, 11, 1; cf.: ille quidem semper impendebit timor, ne, etc., id. Rep. 2, 28: Ea contentio quae impendet, id. Att. 2, 22, 3: vento impendente, Verg. G. 1, 365: pluviā, id. ib. 4, 191: magnum bellum impendet a Parthis, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 6; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 60, § 157; id. Prov. Cons. 17, 42: impendentia ex ruinis et commutatione status publici pericula, Vell. 2, 35, 3.—

b Act.: quae res me impendet, Lucil. ap. Fest. s. v. me, p. 16 Müll.: tanta te impendent mala, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 2.!*? Part. pass.: impensus, a, um; poet. for impendens: tempestas atque tenebrae coperiunt maria ac terras inpensa superne, Lucr. 6, 491 Munro ad loc.; cf.: impensum ferrum, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1592.

In the wild

impendentibus Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 10
impendere Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.13.2
impenderet Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.7.2
impendentium Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.8.2
impendebat Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.1.5
Impendentem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 1.8

6 of 138 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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