• fare (v.): originally = to go (nearly obs.: "so on he fares," Milt.), hence to be going on, well or ill: Phr.: how f.s it with you, quid agis? Pl. (v. to do, IV.): Hor.: how f.d you at Nasidienus's dinner-party, ut Nasidieni juvit te coena? Hor.: if it had f.d ill with him, si male cesserat, Hor. (v. to succeed): I am faring well, bene habemus nos, Cic.: it f.s ill with the poor when he apes the rich, inops potentem dum vult imitari, perit, Phaedr. 1, 24: less strong, humiles laborant, ubi, etc., ib. 30.