obedient Copy link Outline 1. ŏbēdiens (usu. with dat.)2. dicto audiens (absol. or with dat. of person)3. obsĕquens, ntis (complying, falling in with)4. more freq. expr. by pāreo, ŏbēdio, obtempĕro (to be o.) • obedient: 1. ŏbēdiens (usu. with dat.): a most o. soldier, imperiis obedientissimus miles, Liv. 7, 13, init.: Cic.: also with ad and acc. (ad nova consilia ob., in somewhat diff. sense). 2. dicto audiens (absol. or with dat. of person): not to be o. about anything, in aliqua re dicto a. non esse, Cic. Deiot. 8, 23. the bailiff (must) be o. to his master, villicus domino dicto a. sit, Cato R. R. 142. 3. obsĕquens, ntis (complying, falling in with): I am not so o. to my father (as I ought to be), sum meo patri minus obs., Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 18: Sen. 4. more freq. expr. by pāreo, ŏbēdio, obtempĕro (to be o.): to be o. to the magistrates, obtemperare atque obedire magistratibus, Cic. Leg. 3, 2, fin.: v. to obey. (Parentiores in Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76, is doubtful: al. paratiores.)