wager

wager
subs.
Stake, pledge: Ar. and P. ἐνέχῠρον, τό.
Contest: P. and V. ἀ̆γών, ὁ.
Lay a wager: Ar. περῐδί̆δοσθαι (absol.).

wager
v. trans.
Risk, hazard: Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰβάλλεσθαι, V. πᾰραρρίπτειν ; see risk.
Absol., make a bet: Ar. περῐδί̆δοσθαι.
I am willing to wager my head: Ar. ἐθέλω περὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς περιδόσθαι (Eq. 791).

WAGER

sponsio (the proper word): pignus (the stake). To lay a wager sponsionem facere (with one cum aliquo); pignore certare or contendere (cum aliquo): to win a wager sponsionem or sponsione vincere: to lay any wager quovis pignore certare. Wager of battle (at law) by provocare aliquem ad pugnam ad certamen etc. In barbarous Latin vadiatio duelli vadiatio legis (technical term).

wager (subs.):

1. sponsio: a bold w. (as to the issue of a combat), audax sponsio, Juv. 11, 200: to win a w., sponsione vincere, Macr. Sat. 2, 13, ad fin.: to offer a w. that the green will not win, sponsione provocare si prasinus palmam (habet), Petr. 70, extr. (ed. Burm.). Sponsio is often used of a kind of w. in Roman law-courts: to challenge to a w., sponsione lacessere, Cic. Verr. 3, 57, 132: to win, lose a w., sponsionem vincere, sponsionis condemnari, Cic. Caec. 31, 91.

2. pignus, ŏris, n. (strictly the stake): they lay any w. that it is S., quovis Sabinum pignore esse contendunt, Cat. 44, 4. Phr.: to offer w. of battle, *provocare ad pugnam: v. TO CHALLENGE.

wager (v.):

1. spondeo, spopondi, sponsum, 2: I w. that the green wins, spondeo (or, sponsione provoco) ni prasinus palmam habet: I w. that the green does not win, sp. si prasinus, etc.: cf. Burm. ad Petr. 70.

2. sponsione provoco, lacesso: v. WAGER (subs.).