I. Orig., a pub. law t. t., to expend, pay out money from the public treasury, after asking the consent of the people: “pecunias ex aerario,” Cic. Vat. 12; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71; 2, 5, 19; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14; Liv. 22, 23; 33, 47 al.; cf.: “pecuniam in classem,” Cic. Fl. 13: “in aes alienum,” id. Att. 6, 1, 21: “unde in eos sumptus, pecunia erogaretur,” Liv. 1, 20; Vulg. Marc. 5, 26.—
B. Transf. beyond the pub. law sphere, to pay, pay out, disburse, expend (cf.: “pendo, expendo, perpendo, pondero, solvo, luo): Tironem Curio commendes, ut ei, si quid opus erit, in sumptum eroget,” Cic. Att. 8, 5 fin.: “aliquid in pretium servi,” Dig. 25, 2, 36 fin.: “bona sua in fraudem futurae actionis,” to squander, ib. 17, 2, 68: “grandem pecuniam in Tigellinum,” to bequeath, Tac. A. 16, 17; cf.: “in Tiridatem erogavit,” Suet. Ner. 30: “odores, unguenta ad funus,” Dig. 15, 3, 7: “nihil de bonis,” ib. 24, 1, 5 fin.; cf.: “aliquid ex bonis,” ib. 26, 7, 12: “aliquid pro introitu,” ib. 32, 1, 102 fin. et saep.—
C. Trop., in Tertullian: aliquem, to expose to death, to destroy, kill: “tot innocentes,” Tert. Apol. 44; id. Spect. 12; id. Praescript. 2.—
