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Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
Facere renders a sense of doing or making with respect to a specific instance of so doing or making; for more continuative senses of doing or making, compare ago, agito and gero. In Late and Medieval Latin the verb was used with infinitives to form causative constructions (e.g. cf. fieri facias), which are a calque from (Proto-)Romance considered inappropriate in Classical Latin.
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). It is also attested as having a rare sigmatic future passive indicative form ("will have been"), which is not attested in the plural for any verb.
If one were to follow the Proto-Italic verb *fakiō, *fakiesi, the passive would be facior, facī in the present. However, these forms are not attested before or during the Classical period.
“facio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“facio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
facio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
facio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
to cut one's way (through the enemies' ranks): ferro viam facere (per confertos hostes)
(1) to take a journey, (2) to make, lay down a road (rare): iter facere
to travel together: una iter facere
to take a step: gradum facere
to put an end to one's life: vitae finem facere
to perform the last rites for a person: iusta facere, solvere alicui
to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem facere alicuius rei
what am I to do with this fellow: quid huic homini (also hoc homine) faciam?
to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: potestatem,copiam alicui dare, facere with Gen. gerund.
to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
to make trial of; to risk: periculum facere alicuius rei
to try one's strength with the enemy; to try issue of battle: periculum hostis facere
to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
to suffer loss, harm, damage. factum
(ambiguous) to be a born orator: natum, factum esse ad dicendum
(ambiguous) what will become of me: quid (de) me fiet? (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)
(ambiguous) to have to pay a vow; to obtain one's wish: voti damnari, compotem fieri
(ambiguous) what is going on? how are you getting on: quid agitur? quid fit?
(ambiguous) as usually happens: ut fit, ita ut fit, ut fere fit
(ambiguous) as usually happens: ut solet, ut fieri solet