find Copy link Outline 1. invĕnio, vēni, ntum, 4 (to light upon; with or without search)2. rĕpĕrio, pĕri (reppĕri), pertum, 4 (usu. with the notion of getting or recovering something; oftener after search)3. nanciscor, nactus, 3 (to get, fall in with, by good fortune)4. offendo, di, sum, 3 (to hit upon, meet with) • find: 1. invĕnio, vēni, ntum, 4 (to light upon; with or without search): neither at home nor in the city do I f. any one who ..., neque domi neque in urbe invenio quenquam, qui, etc., Pl.: he f.s the ships ready to sail, naves ad navigandum paratas invenit, Caes. B. G. 5, 5: I f. this (stated) in authors, id apud auctores invenio, Liv. 2, 8. Less freq. with acc. and inf.: he found from the prisoners that the river was not more than 10 miles off, inveniebat ex captivis flumen non amplius millia passuum X abesse, Caes. B. G. 2, 16. See also to find out. 2. rĕpĕrio, pĕri (reppĕri), pertum, 4 (usu. with the notion of getting or recovering something; oftener after search): to f. a treasure, thesaurum r., Pl.: Glycerium has found her parents, Glycerium suos parentes repperit, Ter. And. 5, 6, 5: a very few, falling in with some boats, found safety, perpauci lintribus inventis sibi salutem repererunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 53: it is very hard to f. true friendships, verae amicitiae difficillime reperiuntur, Cic. Freq. of ascertaining by search: respecting their manners Caesar found as follows, quorum de moribus Caesar sic reperiebat, Caes. B. G. 2, 15: in other respects we shall be found equal, ceteris rebus pares reperiemur, Cic. Am. 17, 64. 3. nanciscor, nactus, 3 (to get, fall in with, by good fortune): to f. a person disengaged, aliquem otiosum n., Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 14: to f. huge game, immanes belluas venando n., Cic. N. D. 2, 64, 161: Caes.: v. to get. 4. offendo, di, sum, 3 (to hit upon, meet with): to f. a person unprepared, aliquem imparatum of., Cic. Fam. 2, 3: we found her busy at the loom, texentem studiose ipsam offendimus, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 44. Less freq. with ref. to inanimate objects: Terentius, while hoeing his field, found a chest, T. agrum repastinans, arcam offendit (struck upon it), Plin. 13, 13, 27: you will not f. the same feeling among good citizens, non offendes eundem bonorum sensum, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, med. Phr.: to f. pleasure in anything, voluptatem capere ex aliqua re (v. to derive, feel): to f. a man guilty, damnare (v. to condemn): to f. fault, vituperare, accusare (v. to blame; and fault): to f. by experience, experiri (v. to experience): not to be found (not forthcoming), non comparere, Cic. Clu. 64, 180.