Meaning of iubeo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to authorize, to legitimate, to make lawful, to homologate, to pass (a bill or law or decision)
   Classical-Latin, Old-Latin, conjugation-2
2. to bid, to command, to order
   conjugation-2

Equivalents

Examples

“MESS. Sic sine igitur, si tuom negas me esse, abire liberum. MEN. Mea quidem hercle causa liber esto atque ito quo voles. MESS. Nempe iubes?”

MESS. Very well then, sir, if you say I'm not yours, let me go free. MEN. Lord, man, be free so far as I am concerned, and go where you like. MESS. So you authorize me, indeed? MEN. Lord, yes I authorize it, if I am supposed to decide over you.

““… Equidem per lītora certōs dīmittam, et Libyae lūstrāre extrēma iubēbō, sī quibus ēiectus silvīs aut urbibus errat.” “For my part, I shall send forth reliable [men] along the shores, and order [them] to search the furthest edges of Libya, [to see] whether the shipwrecked [Aeneas] wanders some woods or towns.” – Queen Dido”

“[…] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.”

[…] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.

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