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mendico

mendico, to beg, ask alms

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mendicantium Verb: present active participle masculine genitive plural, Verb: present active participle feminine genitive plural, Verb: present active participle neuter genitive plural of mendico

See mendicantium in Morpho

mendico, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., and mendīcor, ātus sum (archaic inf. mendicarier, Plaut. Capt. prol. 13), 1, v. dep. [mendicus],
  • to beg, ask for alms, go a-begging; to beg for something, solicit, obtain by begging; constr. absol. and with acc. (poet. and post-class.): mendicantem vivere, to live by begging. Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 73 (323): quando histrionem cogis mendicarier, id. ib. prol. 13; mendicum malim mendicando vincere, id. ib. 3, 4, 16 (548).—Act.: a me mendicas malum, Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 12 (1032): aliquid mendicare, Ap. Apol. p. 287, 1.—Poet.: ejectis mendicat silva Camenis, i.e. is full of beggars, Juv. 3, 16.—Part. in pass. sense: mendicatus victa Karthagine panis, Juv. 10, 277.

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