partĭceps — Lewis & Short
partĭceps, cipis, adj.pars-capio,
I sharing, partaking, participant (class.; syn.: consors, socius); constr. usually with gen., rarely also with dat. or with prepp.
I Adj.
(a) With gen.:
fac participes nos tuae sapientiae,Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 81:
nuntii,Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 19:
esse participem leti,i. e. to be mortal, Lucr. 3, 462:
animus rationis compos et particeps,Cic. Univ. 8:
fortunarum omnium socius et particeps,id. Font. 17, 47:
artis,id. Div. 1, 18, 34; id. Inv. 2, 30, 92:
virtutes ita copulatae conexaeque sunt, ut omnes omnium participes sint,id. Fin. 5, 23, 67:
praedae ac praemiorum,Caes. B. C. 3, 82:
secreti honesti,Juv. 3, 52.—
(b) With dat.:
aliquem participem studiis habere,Ov. P. 2, 5, 41 (al. studii):
alicujus consilii fortibus viris esse participem,Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. id. 6, 6, 36:
sceleris in regem suum,id. 6, 24:
Natalis particeps ad omne secretum Pisoni erat,Tac. A. 15, 50. —
(g) With a prep.:
non licet donati obsoni me participem fieri,Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 34 Speng.:
particeps in tribulatione,Vulg. Apoc. 1, 9.—
(d) With a rel.-clause:
is speculatum huc misit me, ut, quae fierent, fieret particeps,Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 19.—
II Subst., a sharer, partaker, partner.—Esp., a comrade, fellow-soldier: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. p. 512, 32:
me et semul participes meos praedā onerabo,Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 14:
praedam participes petunt,id. Most. 1, 3, 154:
meus particeps,Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 98:
hujus belli ego particeps et socius et adjutor esse cogor,Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5:
in quādam conjuratione quasi participes nominati,Suet. Calig. 56; cf. Curt. 6, 8, 5.