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opitulor

to bring aid; to help

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Where it lives

Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

ŏpĭtŭlor — Lewis & Short

ŏpĭtŭlor, ātus, 1 (old

I inf. pres. opitularier; v. in the foll.), v. dep. n. [ops-tulo, whence tuli], to bring aid; to help, aid, assist, succor (class.; syn.: adjuvo, subvenio, auxilior, succurro): amanti ire opitulatum, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 27: amicum amico opitularier, id. Curc. 2, 3, 54: sontibus, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 3: inopiae, to relieve, Sall. C. 33, 2: permultum ad dicendum, Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 7: frequentatio, quae conjecturalibus causis opitulatur, Auct. Her. 4, 40, 53.—

(b) With contra, to be good against, to relieve; of remedies: contra vanas species opitulari, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 103.!*? Act. collat. form ŏpĭtŭlo, āre (anteclass.): corrige, opitula, Liv. And. ap. Non. 475, 11.

In the wild

opitulati Sallust, Catilina 33
opitulati Cicero, De Inventione 2.7

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