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nuntĭo (nunc-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [nuntius], to announce, declare, report, relate, narrate, make known, inform, give intelligence of, etc. (cf.: narro, indico, trado, scribo, dico, certiorem facio, etc.).

  1. I. In gen., alike of verbal and of written communications; constr. acc. of thing and dat. of person; for the acc. may stand an acc. and inf., a clause with ut or ne and subj., or subj. alone, or with de and abl.; for the dat. an acc. with ad (ante-class.); in pass., both personal and impersonal, the latter most usually, esp. in perf. nuntiatum est, with subj.-clause.
    1. A. Act.
      1. 1. With acc. of thing (dat. of person): non dubito quin celerius tibi hoc rumor, quam ullius nostrum litterae nuntiārint, Cic. Att. 1, 15, 1: horas quinque puer nondum tibi nuntiat, Mart. 8, 67, 1: senatui ac populo victoriam, Suet. Ner. 1: ut nuntiarem nuntium exoptabilem, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 67: voluptatem magnam, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 10: quid est, quod percipi possit, si ne sensus quidem vera nuntiant, Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 79: talia tibi, Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 6: horas, to tell the time of day, Mart. 8, 67, 1; 10, 48, 1; cf. Tac. A. 15, 30.
      2. 2. With clause: qui nuntiarent, prope omnes naves afflictas esse, Caes. B. G. 5, 10; 4, 11, 6: nuntiate regi vestro, regem Romanum deos facere testes, Liv. 1, 22, 7: litterae tuae laeta continebant, quod te in urbe teneri nuntiabant, Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 1: visus est talis, qualem esse eum tuae mihi litterae nuntiārant, Cic. Att. 1, 19, 11.
        With ut, ne, or subj.: Catilinae nuntiare, ne eum Lentulus aliique terrerent, Sall. C. 48, 4: deligit centurionem qui nuntiaret regibus ne armis disceptarent, Tac. A. 2, 65: nuntiatum, ut prodiret, Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 358: Vibius nuntiavit Pisoni Romam ad dicendam causam veniret, Tac. A. 2, 79: jubet nuntiare miserae, dicendam ad causam postero die adesset, id. ib. 11, 37; Dig. 49, 14, 44.
      3. 3. With inf.: ergo nuntiat patri abicere spem et uti necessitate, Tac. A. 16, 11 init.
      4. 4. Absol.: Ly. Salutem multam dicito patrono. Cu. Nuntiabo, I will do so, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 38.
    2. B. Passive constructions.
      1. 1. Pers.: utinam meus nunc mortuos pater ad me nuntietur, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 76: aquatores premi nuntiantur, Caes. B. C. 1, 73: crebris motibus terrae ruere in agris nuntiabantur tecta, Liv. 4, 21, 5: (tribuni) summā vi restare nuntiabantur, id. 4, 58, 4; 22, 54, 9: hoc adeo celeriter fecit, ut simul adesse, et venire nuntiaretur, Caes. B. G. 3, 36: jamjam adesse ejus equites nuntiabantur, id. ib. 1, 14; Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 1.
      2. 2. Impers.: conantibus, priusquam id effici posset, adesse Romanos nuntiatur, Caes. B. G. 6, 4, 1: Caesari nuntiatur Sulmonenses cupere, etc., id. B. C. 1, 18, 1: nuntiatur Afranio magnos commeatus ad flumen constitisse, id. ib. 1, 51, 1: non dubie mihi nuntiabatur Parthos transīsse Euphratem, Cic. Fam. 15, 1, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 87; id. Mil. 18, 48: nuntiatum est nobis a M. Varrone, venisse eum Romā, Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1: cum paulo esset de hoc incommodo nuntiatum, id. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41: nuntiatumque Hannibali est, Liv. 23, 19, 11; Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 1; Tac. A. 2, 79.
        Absol.: occiso Sex. Roscio, qui primus Ameriam nuntiat? who will be the first bearer of the tidings? Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96: bene, ita me di ament, nuntias, you bring good news, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 20.
  2. II. In partic., in jurid. Lat., to denounce, inform against: causam pecuniae fisco, Dig. 49, 14, 39; cf.: cum heres decessisset, exstitit qui bona nuntiaret, ib. 29, 5, 22: opus novum, to inform against a work undertaken by another to one’s injury: opus novum, si tibi nuntiavero, ib. 4, 7, 3; 16; 43, 20, 3.