deprehendere (to catch or find a man out in a bad action; e.g., in facinore manifesto, in the very act, in adulterio, etc., also deprehendere falsas gemmas): comprehendere (also to find out anybody in a bad action, or to discover the bad action itself; comprehendere fures, Catullus; adulterium, Cic.): reperire (to find): invenlre (e.g., maleficium): comperire (to discover the whole of anything): patefacere (to detect and make its existence manifest; e.g., conjurationem, Cic.): to detect faults in anybody, vitia in aliquo videre: to detect and refute what is false, falsa deprehendere et repellere (Quint.): to detect barbarisms, deprehendere, quae barbara sunt (Quint.): to detect and expose the impudent falsehood of the whole evidence, totius testimonii fictam audaciam manifesto comprehensam atque oppressam tenere (Cic.): to have detected anything by his scouts, per exploratores cognovisse aliquid. ☞ Detegere = to uncover, to declare, to reveal, betray, etc.; it must not be used for to detect = “to find out,” etc.; but when “to be detected” = to reveal itself, detegi or se detegere may be used; e.g., [id quod inseritur] ipsa coloris inaequalitate detegitur, Quint., 12, 9, 17; the word is rare in the Augustan Age; once in Cic., not in Caes. If the conspiracy was detected by me, si conjuratio per me patefacta est: detected wickedness, scelus manifestum atque deprehensum (Cic.), or manifesto compertum atque deprehensum (Cic.): detected, compertus (of persons, with genitive, of crime, stupri, sacrilegii, etc., Liv., ; also of things): patefactus (laid open): deprehensus: detected in the commission of adultery with anybody, uxor in alicujus stupro comperta (Suet.).