thanks Copy link Outline 1. grātia (with agere, almost always pl.2. grātes, f. (only in nom. and acc. • thanks: 1. grātia (with agere, almost always pl.: otherwise sing.): great t., vast t., magnae, ingentes g., Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1: to give one a thousand t., incredibiles g. agere, Cic. Fam. 13, 27, 2: extraordinary t., singulares g., id. ib. 13, 41: everlasting t., immortales g., Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 11, init.: to give exceeding t., mirificas g. agere, Cic. Att. 14, 13, ad fin.: to give t. to any one in most flattering terms, amplissimis, singularibus verbis g. agere, id. Cat. 3, 6, 14; Sull. 30, 85: to pass a formal vote of t., g. agendas censere, id. Dom. 32, 85: our t. are due to the gods, g. dis debetur, id. Fin. 3, 22, 73: we give thee the warmest t., we feel yet greater thankfulness, maximas tibi g. agimus, majores etiam habemus, id. Marcell. 11, 33. [N.B.--Habere gratiam is prop. to feel t., whilst agere gratias refers to the expr. of them in words: cf. id. Cat. 1, 5, 11: Tusc. 1, 42, 100 with the preced.: referre gratiam is to make a due return, requite, repay, as in id. Fam. 5, 11, 1: Phil. 3, 2, 4: exsolvere, persolvere g., is to thank by acts as well as words: so, meritam dis g. justis honoribus et mente memori persolvere, id. Planc. 33, 80: suis recte factis g. exsolvere, Liv. 28, 25.] 2. grātes, f. (only in nom. and acc.: abl. once in Tac.: the word is somewhat poet., and is only once in Cic.): to utter one's t., dicere g., Virg. Aen. 11, 508: to give praises and t. to the gods, dis laudes g.que agere, Liv. 7, 36: agere habereque, id. 23, 11: (deos) laudibus gratibusque venerari, Tac. A. 12, 37. Phr.: t. to the gods, beneficio (abl.) Deorum, Caes. B. G. 5, 52: I owe you more t. than I owe Milo, ego plus tibi quam Miloni debeo, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 5: to have to thank the Nile (for it), Nilo beneficium debere (joined to fluminibus gratias agere), Sen. Ben. 6, 7, 3: one bound to give t., debitor, Plin. Ep. 3, 2, ad fin.: Ov.