HANG Copy link • HANG 1. v. TRANS., anything on anything, suspendere aliquid alicui rei or (de, a, ex) aliqua re: to hang down one’s head, one’s ears, demittere labra, aures or auriculas (also, figuratively, for *to be low spirited “). IMPROPR., To hang with wreaths and roses, sertis redimire et rosa: to hang the walls of a room with pictures, tabulis cubiculi parietes vestire; cubiculum tabellis picturarum adorare: to hang a room with tapestry, *conclavis parietes tapetibus ornare. To execute by hanging, to hang a malefactor, affigere aliquem patibulo; arbori infelici suspendere aliquem (by a rope, reste): to be hanged, suspendio interimi: to hang one’s self, se suspendere; suspendio vitam finire or amittere; suspendio perire: to hang one’s self on a fig-tree, se suspendere de or e ficu: to drive anybody to hang himself, ad suspendium adigere, ad laqueum compellere aliquem. Go and hang yourself! sume restim et suspende te! abi in malam rem! or i tu hinc, quo dignus es! (comedy). 2. INTRANS., pendere (PROP. and figuratively), on or from anything, a (de, ex, in) aliqua re: dependere (PROP., to hang down; both pendere and dependere denote the hanging loose from a fixed point, without a support under the thing); from anything, (de, ex) aliqua re: to hang from the ceiling of a room, dependere de laquearibus, de camera (e.g., a lamp, etc.): to hang by a rope, laqueo dependere: to hang over, etc., imminere (e.g., urbi, etc.; of a mountain, etc.: for figuratively meaning, Vid: IMPEND). To hang down over the shoulders, humeros tegere (to cover them; of the hair, etc.): to hang upon anybody’s mouth (= drink in his words), pendere ab ore alicujus: to hang upon anything (= cling to it), adhaerescere alicui rei or ad aliquid (Vid: Latin Dict.); upon anybody, pendere de aliquo (Hor. †). Prov., To hang by a thread, (tenui) filo pendere (Ennius, Ov.). HANG BACK, gravari (to hesitate): tergiversari (to make excuses in order to evade a request). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cunctari et tergiversari. To hang back in doubt, Vid: “to be in SUSPENSE.” HANG FORWERD or OVER, propendere: prominere (to be prominent): projectum esse (of rocks, promontories, etc.). HANG FROM, HAND DOWN, dependere. Vid: HANG (INTRANS., above.