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“fides1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fides2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fides”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fides 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)
fides in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to fly to some one for refuge: confugere ad aliquem or ad opem, ad fidem alicuius
to give a veracious and historic account of a thing: narrare aliquid ad fidem historiae
to teach some one to play a stringed instrument: docere aliquem fidibus
to learn to play a stringed instrument: fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)
to play on the lyre: fidibus canere
to strike the strings of the lyre: pellere nervos in fidibus
to believe a person: fidemhabere alicui
to make some one believe a thing: fidem alicuius rei facere alicui
to believe in, trust in a thing: fidem tribuere, adiungere alicui rei
to rob a person of his credit: fidem abrogare, derogare alicui
to weaken, destroy a man's credit: fidem alicuius imminuere, infirmare (opp. confirmare)
to entrust a thing to a person's good faith: committere aliquid alicui or alicuius fidei
to preserve one's loyalty: fidem colere, servare
to keep faith with a person, keep one's word: fidem praestare alicui
to break one's word: fidem laedere, violare, frangere
to make a person waver in his loyalty: fidem alicuius labefactare (Cluent. 60. 194)
to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
to flee for refuge to some one: confugere ad aliquem, ad fidem alicuius
to take a person under one's protection: in fidem recipere aliquem (B. G. 2. 15. 1)
to implore some one's protection: fidem alicuius obsecrare, implorare
to confirm, ratify, sanction something: fidem addere alicui rei
to guarantee the protection of the state; to promise a safe-conduct: fidem publicam dare, interponere (Sall. Iug. 32. 1)
to give one's word that..: fidem dare alicui (opp. accipere) (c. Acc. c. Inf.)
to keep one's word (not tenere): fidem servare (opp. fallere)
to fulfil a promise: fidem persolvere
to fulfil a promise: fidem (promissum) praestare
to pledge one's word to..: fidem interponere (Sall. Iug. 32. 5)
to break one's word: fidem prodere
to break one's word: fidem frangere
to make a thing credible: fidem facere, afferre alicui rei (opp. demere, de-, abrogare fidem)
(ambiguous) a thing finds credence, is credible: aliquid fidem habet (vid. also fides under sect. VII., History)
to rob a person of his credit: fidem derogare alicui
to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
to surrender oneself to the discretion of some one: se permittere in fidem atque in potestatem alicuius (B. G. 2. 3)
to deal mercifully with some one: in fidem recipere aliquem (Fam. 13. 16)