responsible Copy link Outline I. Accountable1. reus (one who is bound, liable)2. expr. by praesto, stĭti, stĭtum and stātum, 1 (to be r. for)3. expr. by various phr.II. Substantial, able to pay • responsible: I. Accountable: 1. reus (one who is bound, liable): that each one should be r. for defending his own part, ut suae quisque partis tuendae reus esset, Liv. 25, 30: v. accountable. 2. expr. by praesto, stĭti, stĭtum and stātum, 1 (to be r. for): nobody can be r. for popular impulses, impetus populi nemo p. potest, Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124: to be r. for nothing, nihil p., id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9. 3. expr. by various phr.: to live under the impression that we are r., ita vivere ut rationem reddendam nobis arbitremur, Cic. Verr. 2, 11, 28: to be r. for Cassius, pro Cassio recipere, id. Fam. 11, 1, 4: to hold any one r., rationem reposcere ab aliquo, Caes. B. G. 5, 30: the opinion has prevailed that he is r. on the ground of negligence, praevaluit culpae nomine teneri eum, Justin. Inst. 3, 25, 9: to render r., oblĭgo, 1: v. bind (and Smith's Dict. Ant. under obligatio): a guardian who is not r., aneclogistus, Julianus in Ulp. Dig. 26, 7, 5, § 7. II. Substantial, able to pay: lŏcŭples, ētis (trustworthy, safe, sure): we are prisoners who are sufficiently r., rei satis l. sumus, Liv. 9, 9, ad fin.: Cic.