Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

păcisco, ĕre, 3, v. n. and a. [collat. form of dep. paciscor, q. v.], to agree, contract, bargain, covenant (class. only in perf. part. pass.): id quoque paciscunt, Naev. ap. Non. 474, 17: paciscit, obsides ut reddant, id. ib. 18.
Hence, pactus, a, um, in pass. signif., agreed upon, settled, determined, covenanted, stipulated (class.).

  1. A. In gen.: pactum pretium, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 107: pacta praemia, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 2: dies, id. Cat. 1, 9, 24: merces, Hor. C. 3, 3, 22: foedus, Cic. Sest. 14, 33: cum hoste pactae induciae, id. Off. 1, 10, 33.
    In the abl. absol.: quidam pacto inter se ut victorem res sequeretur, ferro decreverunt, by agreement, Liv. 28, 21, 5; Sil. 14, 97.
  2. B. In partic., betrothed: haec tibi pacta’st Callicli filia, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 59: cujus filio pacta est Artavasdis filia, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 2: alii pacta puella, Tac. A. 1, 55: Turnus, cui pacta Lavinia fuerat, Liv. 1, 2: conjux, Verg. A. 10, 722.
    Hence, as subst.
    1. 1. pacta, ae, f., a betrothed woman: gremiis abducere pactas, Verg. A. 10, 79: pacta ejus, Menelai filia, Vell. 1, 1, 3; Juv. 6, 200.
    2. 2. pactus, i, m., a betrothed husband, a man engaged or promised in marriage: proles Amissum didicere patrem, Marpissaque pactum, Stat. Th. 3, 172.
    3. 3. pactum, i, n., an agreement, covenant, contract, stipulation, compact, pact (cf.: conventio, pactio, obligatio): pactum est, quod inter aliquos convenit, Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 68; cf. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: pacta et promissa semperne servanda sint, Cic. Off. 3, 24, 92: mansit in condicione atque pacto, id. Verr. 1, 6, 16: pacti et conventi formula, id. Caecin. 18, 51; cf.: ex pacto et convento, id. Att. 6, 3, 1: pacta conventaque, Sen. Ben. 3, 15, 1: stare pacto, Liv. 9, 11: pactum violans, Vulg. Mal. 2, 10 et saep.
      Hence (eccl. Lat.), the covenant of God: dereliquerunt pactum Domini, Vulg. Deut. 29, 25; id. 3 Reg. 11, 11; id. 2 Par. 6, 14.
      Poet.: sacrum, i. e. a marriagecontract, Val. Fl. 8, 401; cf. Juv. 6, 25.
        1. (β) Transf., in gen., abl. pacto (like ratione and modo), manner, way, means (class.): percontat Aeneas, quo pacto Troiam urbem liquerit, Naev. Bell. Pun. 2, 1: si non fecero ei male aliquo pacto, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 27; id. Am. prol. 137: nescio quo pacto semper hoc fit, how, Cic. Mur. 21, 43; id. Quint. 17: non tacebo umquam alio pacto, nisi, etc., Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 46: aliquo pacto verba his dabo, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 13: quoquo pacto tacito est opus, id. Ad. 3, 2, 44: si nullo alio pacto, id. Phorm. 2, 1, 71: alio pacto docere, Cic. Inv. 1, 21, 30: fieri nullo pacto potest, ut, etc., id. Fin. 1, 8, 27; Ter. And. 1, 5, 12: servi mei si me isto pacto metuerent, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 10; 1, 8, 13: hoc pacto, Verg. G. 2, 248.

păciscor, pactus, 3, v. dep. n. and a. (act. collat. form, v. supra) [1. paco], to make a bargain, contract, or agreement with any one; to covenant, agree, stipulate, bargain, contract respecting any thing (cf.: transigo, stipulor, pango).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. In gen.
          1. (α) Neutr.: pacisci cum illo paululā pecuniā potes, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 24; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 36; Ov. M. 4, 702: paciscitur magnā mercede cum Celtiberorum principibus, ut, etc., Liv. 25, 33; cf.: pacti sunt inter se, ut die statutā, Just. 1, 10, 4; 16, 4, 7; 38, 3, 5; cf. esp. id. 3, 6, 10: votis pacisci, Ne Cypriae Tyriaeque merces Addant avaro divitias mari (= votis transigere cum dis), Hor. C. 3, 29, 59: de mercedibus, Suet. Gram. 7.
          2. (β) Act.: quae pacisci modo scis, set quod pacta’s, non scis solvere, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 89: argentum, id. ib. arg. 1, 9: quam (provinciam) sibi pactus erat, Cic. Sest. 25, 55: rem, Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20: pecuniam cum aliquo, Auct. B. Alex. 55: omnibus proscriptis, reditum salutemque pactus est, Vell. 2, 77, 2: ab aliquo vitam, Sall. J. 26, 1; so, pactus in singulos (homines) minas decem a tyranno, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 99: cum Xerxe nuptias filiae, Just. 2, 15, 14.
            With object-clause: Leucippo fieri pactus uterque gener, Ov. F. 5, 702: dimitti (eum) pactus, si, etc., Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 18.
            In part. fut. pass.: ut firma fierent paciscenda, Amm. 31, 12, 13.
    2. B. In partic., of a marriage-contract, to betroth a woman (syn.: despondeo, spondeo): ex quā pactus esset vir domo, in matrimonium duceret, Liv. 4, 4, 10: Etutam pacto fratri eum invidisse, id. 44, 30, 4.
  2. II. Trop., to barter, hazard, stake (poet.): vitam pro laude, Verg. A. 5, 230: letum pro laude, id. ib. 12, 49: aevum pro luce, Stat. Th. 1, 317.