ENACT Copy link • ENACTsancire (absolutely, or with ut, ne, quominus; Solon de eo nihil sanxit, quod antea commissum non erat, Cic.): legem ferre; about anything, legem ferre, or ferre only, de re: sancire or sciscere legem (of the Roman people accepting and passing a law): legem condere, scribere, conscribere (to draw up a law): to enact a law about anything, legem jubere or sciscere de re (of the Roman people); legem or lege sancire de re (of the Senate and people). To enact (a law) that, etc., ferre legem, ut (or ne); sciscere or jubere, ut (or ne, of the people); legem alicui constituere, ut or ne (if enacted for another nation). The law is enacted, lex valet: perfertur (is carried through). To enact laws for a nation, leges dare, constituere civitati (dare, especially of a sovereign; but legem dare, constituere, facere, absolutely, in the sense of giving or drawing up a law, is not Latin): leges alicui (populo, civitati) imponere (to impose them tyrannically). Act a play, agere: to enact the part of anybody, aliquem or partes (alicujus) agere; personam alicujus tueri.