Lay upon (figuratively), imponere (the troper word; e.g. taxes, burdens, tasks, laws, names, a necessity, etc.): injungere (e.g., taxes, a burden): irrogare (e.g., multam [Vid: FINE]; poenam; also a tax, tributum, Plin.); all alicui aliquid. To impose duties on anybody, alicui officia injungere: to impose upon the states the necessity of carrying corn (into the camp), vecturas frumenti civitatibus describere (according to a written scale of the amount to be delivered by each). To impose upon anybody the necessity, etc., alicui necessitatem imponere (Cic., Phil., 4, 5) or afferre (Cic.): to impose a name, alicui nomen imponere or cognomen indere; cognomine appellare aliquem: to impose silence (on any subject), aliquid or de aliqua re tacere aliquem jubere; de aliqua re taceri velle: to impose laws upon a state, civitati leges (per vim) imponere. A fine was imposed on all the states, multa in singulas civitates imposita (Liv.).