subscribe Copy link Outline I. To affix one's signature1. subscrībo, psi, ptum, 3, usu. abs., without nomen2. subnŏto, 13. subsigno, 1II. To undertake to give or buy • subscribe: I. To affix one's signature: 1. subscrībo, psi, ptum, 3, usu. abs., without nomen: Cic.: Suet. Ner. 10: with dat., Ulp. [N.B.--Cic. uses this verb in the sense of to write under, or as the legal t. t., to subscribe one's name to an accusation either as a principal or subordinate.] Transf.: to assent to s. to the hatred and charges against Hannibal, s. odiis accusationibusque Hannibalis, Liv. 33, 47: cf. id. 10, 22. 2. subnŏto, 1: to s. one's name, nomen s., Suet. Cal. 41. 3. subsigno, 1: Paul.: v. to sign. II. To undertake to give or buy: *nomine subscripto profiteri se daturum, empturum: to s. to a book, *libri emptorem se profiteri (nominis subscriptiono), Georg.: persons can s. till the end of June, *nomen profiteri poterunt empturi usque ad finem mensis Junii, Georg.