BID Copy link • BIDinvite, invitare or vocare: to supper, invitare or vocare aliquem (ad cenam): to my house, aliquem invito domum meam. Command, order jubere, imperare, praecipere, dicere, mandare. If you would have done as I bade you, si meum imperium exsequi voluisses. You had best do as I bid you, tu fac ut dixi, si sapis. Do as he shall bid you, quod imperabit facito. Run and bid the woman come hither, curre, mulierem arcesse. To bid at a sale, licere, licitari, licitationem facere. To bid against one, aliquo licente contra liceri: to bid an as, liceri asse. To bid upon, aliquid liceri. FIG., to bid fair, promittere aliquem or aliquid; spem facere, dare alicujus rei; aliquid sperare jubere, bene de se sperare jubere. Proclaim, pronuntiare. Denounce, denuntiare. Bid defiance to a person, provocare aliquem (challenge): contumacem esse in aliquem; alicui resistere: a thing, contumacem esse adversus aliquid (e.g., imperia patris): contumaciter spernere (e.g., imperia validiorum): contemnere aliquid (e.g., omnia jura humana); obviam ire alicui rei, se offerre alicui rei (e.g., periculis). I bid one welcome, aliquem salvere jubeo, alicui salutem do, benigne ali quem excipio. To bid good-morrow, salu to, salvere jubeo.