satisfacere alicui (the proper word): explere aliquem or aliquid (especially, like satiare or saturare, to satisfy the desires or passions): alicui probari (to meet with approval): respondere alicui or alicui rei (to answer; of persons or personified things). To satisfy one’s creditors, creditoribus satisfacere; creditores absolvere or dimittere (Vid: Gierig., Plin., Ep. 2, 4, 2): to satisfy one’s wish, voluntati alicujus satisfacere or obsequi; aliquem or animum alicujus explere; optatis alicujus respondere: to satisfy the expectations of anyone, exspectationem alicujus explere; respondere alicujus exspectationi (opposed to decipere alicujus exspectationem): to be satisfied, contentum esse; with anything, aliqua re (or, after the Augustin age, followed by an infinitive; to be content): satis habere (followed by an accusative and infinitive, or by a simple infinitive; to hold or esteem sufficient): acquiescere in re (to rest in anything, not to desire more): to be satisfied with little, parvo contentum esse; parce vivere: to be satisfied with what one has, suis rebus contentum esse. Vid: also, SATIATE, PAY, CONVINCE.