• WAIT

1. s. Vid: AMBUSH.

2. v. manere (to stay in one’s place; then, to stay until another comes); for anybody, aliquem; opperiri (to stay in a place until one comes or returns, or until something happens); for anybody or anything, aliquem or aliquid; praestolari (to be ready to receive anybody); for anybody, alicui, or (☞ but not in Cic.) aliquem; exspectare (to look forward to something which one has reason to expect); for anybody or anything, aliquem or aliquid. Wait a little! mane paullisper! wait here a little while, parumper opperire hic. ☞ Exspectare, often = “to wait to see,” being followed by deponent interrogative clause; thus, “whilst all men were waiting to see who would be so shameless”, etc., exspectantibus omnibus, quisnam tam impudens esset, etc. (Cic.)