verb intransitive

com-plăcĕo

2nd PP com-plăcēre · 3rd PP complăcŭi / complăcĭtus sum · conj. 2nd

(except in Col., only ante- and postclass.).

To be pleasing at the same time; to please also •

To be pleasing at the same time, to please also: postquam me amare dixi, complacita'st tibi, Ter. And. 4, 1, 21: ut et tibi et Gallioni nostro complacuerat, * Col. 9, 16, 2; cf. Gell. 17, 9, 4.—

To be very pleasing to; pleased; favorable ••

To be very pleasing to: Veneri haec complacuerunt, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 22: hoc deo complacitum'st, id. ib. 1, 3, 3; cf. Gell. 18, 3, 4: ejus sibi complacitam formam, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 25; cf. App. M. 4, p. 157; Nemes. Cyn. 12. —Hence, complăcĭtus, a, um, P. a., pleased, favorable: Musae, Mart. Cap. 2, § 119; comp.: deus, complacitior, Vulg. Psa. 76, 8.

Perseus ID: n9605 Key: complaceo