I.“prohibessit,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 11: “prohibessint,” Cic. Leg. 3, 3 fin.), v. a. habeo, to hold in front, i. e.,
I. To hold back, keep in check, to restrain, hinder, prevent, avert, keep or ward off, debar (class.; cf.: inhibeo, arceo).
A. In gen.; usually constr. aliquem or aliquid, with abl.; alone or ab and abl.; with ut, ne, quominus, or an obj.-clause; also with simple acc.; less freq. with de, the dat., or gen.
1. With ab: “quo illum ab illā prohibeas,” Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 103: “prohibete a vobis vim meam,” id. Capt. 4, 2, 24: “praedones procul ab insulā Siciliā,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, § 144: “hostem a pugnā,” Caes. B. G. 4, 34: “aliquem a familiaritate, congressione, patrio jure et potestate,” Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 46: “vim hostium ab oppidis,” Caes. B. G. 1, 11: “se suosque ab injuriā,” to restrain themselves, refrain from, id. ib. 2, 28 fin.: “ita prohibendo a delictis magis quam vindicando exercitum brevi confirmavit,” Sall. J. 45, 3; 22, 4. —
2. With de: vim de classe, Lucil. ap. Non 528, 10.—
3. With abl.: “cum suis finibus eos prohibent,” Caes. B. G. 1, 1: “itinere exercitum,” to impede its march, id. ib. 1, 10: “hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque,” id. ib. 1, 15.—With abl. without an object: non prohibere aquā profluente, Cic. Off. 1, 16, 52.—
4. With dat.: “aliquem alicui,” to withhold from one, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 7; cf.: “aditum alicui, Auct. B. Afr. 31: captae prohibere nequiret Cum Poenos aquilae,” could not prevent the Carthaginians from capturing the standard, Sil. 6, 27 (but the gen., Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26; Caes. B. C. 3, 44, depends on the acc. object of prohibere; v. 7 infra).—
5. With ut, ne, quominus; rarely with quin: “dii prohibeant, ut, etc.,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 151: “qui tu id prohibere me potes, ne suspicer,” Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 50 Brix ad loc.: “quod potuisti prohibere, ne fieret,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 33: “ne lustrum perficeret, mors prohibuit P. Furi,” Liv. 24, 43, 4: “hiemem credo adhuc prohibuisse, quo minus, etc.,” Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 1: “prohibere quominus sumerent, non poterant,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 34: “si prohibere, quominus in unum coirent, non posset,” Liv. 25, 35, 6: “nec, quin erumperet, ubi vellet, prohiberi poterat,” id. 26, 40, 4.—
6. With obj.-clause: “qui peregrinos urbibus uti prohibent,” Cic. Off. 3, 11, 47: “qui Bibulum exire domo prohibuissent,” id. Fam. 1, 9, 7: “jam se ad prohibenda circumdari opera Aequi parabant,” Liv. 3, 28, 7: “prohibuit migrari, Veios,” id. 5, 49, 8: “prohibete jus de pecuniis dici,” id. 6, 18, 14; 6, 20, 6: “audeat Canuleius proloqui, se delectum haberi prohibiturum,” Liv. 4, 2, 12; 25, 4, 4; 25, 14, 7: “qui Cimbros intra fines suos ingredi prohibuerint,” Caes. B. G. 2, 4; Verg. A. 6, 606.—
7. With simple acc.: Mars pater, ut tu morbos visos invisosque, viduertatem vastitudinemque ... prohibessis, defendas averruncesque, an old formula of prayer in Cato, R. R. 141: “neque munitiones Caesaris prohibere poterat,” Caes. B. G. 3, 44: “motus conatusque alicujus prohibere,” Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26: “prohibenda maxime est ira in puniendo,” id. Off. 1, 25, 89: “quod uti prohibitum irem, quod in me esset, meo labori non parsi, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. parsi, p. 242 Müll.: prohibere comitia dicitur vitiare diem morbo,” Fest. p. 236 ib.; Cato ap. Fest. l. l.: quod di prohibeant, which may the gods forbid or avert, Ter. And. 3, 3, 36; “and in the same sense: dii mala prohibeant,” id. Hec. 2, 1, 10; cf.: di, prohibete minas; “di, talem avertite casum,” Verg. A. 3, 265; and: “deos quaeso, ut istaec prohibeant,” Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 11.—
B. In partic., to forbid, prohibit a thing (syn.: “interdico, veto): tu modo ne me prohibeas accipere, siquid det mihi,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 89: “nemo hic prohibet nec vetat,” id. Curc. 1, 1, 33: “lex recta imperans prohibensque contraria,” Cic. N. D. 1, 14, 36: “sed dii et homines prohibuere redemptos vivere Romanos,” Liv. 5, 49, 1; Quint. 5, 10, 104; cf.: “Athenis affectus movere per praeconem prohibebatur orator,” the orator was forbidden, id. 6, 1, 7: “prohibitis abstinere,” Sen. Ep. 83, 18.—
II. To keep away from a thing for the sake of safety (cf. defendo, II.), to keep, preserve, defend, protect (rare but class.); with ab: “a quo periculo prohibete rem publicam,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19: “adultam virginem ab armatorum impetu,” id. Brut. 96, 330.—With abl.: “haec damna multa mulierum Me uxore prohibent,” keep me from a wife, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 105: “magnum civium numerum calamitate prohibere,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18: “tenuiores injuriā,” id. Off. 2, 12, 31: “ad prohibendam populationibus Campaniam,” Liv. 22, 14, 2.—With double acc.: “id te Juppiter Prohibessit,” from that may Jupiter preserve you, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 11.