Barassounon, Pierre; Biɔ, Sanu; Biɔ, Thébault; Goragui, Léonard; Soutar, Jean (17 February 2021),Dictionnaire Baatonum[1], Philadelphia: SIL International
Amicitiam populi Romanisibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.
Phrygium ut nemus citato cupide pede tetigit, adiitque opaca siluis redimita loca deae, stimulatus ibi furenti rabie, uagus animis, deuolsit ili acutosibi pondera silice, itaque ut relicta sensitsibi membra sine uiro, etiam recente terrae sola sanguine maculans, niueis citata cepit manibus leue typanum [...]
Attis, when eagerly with speedy footey reached the Phrygian woodland, and entered the goddess' abodes, shadowy, forest-crowned; there, goaded by raging madness, bewildered in mind, ey cast down from em with sharp flint-stone the burden of eir member. So when ey felt eir limbs to have lost their manhood, still with fresh blood dabbling the face of the ground, swiftly with snowy bands ey seized the light timbrel [...]
"sibi", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) to require, give, take time for deliberation:tempus (spatium) deliberandi orad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
(ambiguous) to commit suicide:mortem sibi consciscere
(ambiguous) to lay hands on oneself:manus, vim sibi afferre
(ambiguous) to poison oneself:veneno sibi mortem consciscere
(ambiguous) to leave the question open; to refuse to commit oneself:integrum (causam integram) sibi reservare
(ambiguous) to take measures for one's safety; to look after one's own interests:suis rebus orsibi consulere
(ambiguous) to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces:benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare orcolligere (ex aliqua re)
(ambiguous) to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..:gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more stronglyaucupari
(ambiguous) to be reconciled; to make up a quarrel:sibi aliquem, alicuius animum reconciliare orreconciliari alicui
(ambiguous) to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence:auctoritatem ordignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
(ambiguous) to gain distinction:gloriam, famam sibi comparare
(ambiguous) to attain eternal renown:immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
(ambiguous) to incur ignominy:infamiam concipere, subire, sibi conflare
(ambiguous) to indulge oneself:animo or simplysibi indulgere
(ambiguous) to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive:animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simplyfingere, but withoutsibi),informare
(ambiguous) to picture to oneself:cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere
(ambiguous) to have a high object in view; to be ambitious:magna sibi proponere ormagna spectare
(ambiguous) what is the meaning of this:quid hoc sibi vult?
(ambiguous) to set up some one as one's ideal, model:sibi exemplum alicuius proponere ad imitandum or simplysibi aliquem ad imitandum proponere
(ambiguous) to take a lesson from some one's example:sibi exemplum sumere ex aliquo orexemplum capere de aliquo
(ambiguous) to contradict oneself, be inconsistent:secum pugnare (withoutsibi);sibi repugnare (of things)
(ambiguous) to contradict oneself, be inconsistent:a se dissidere orsibi non constare (of persons)
(ambiguous) to obtain a hearing:audientiam sibi (orationi) facere
(ambiguous) to be in a bad temper:sibi displicere (opp.sibi placere)
(ambiguous) to be haughty:magnos spiritus sibi sumere (B. G. 1. 33)
(ambiguous) to take upon oneself:sibi sumere aliquid (Planc. 1. 3)
(ambiguous) to incur a person's hatred:alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
(ambiguous) to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations:sibi imperare orcontinere et coercere se ipsum
(ambiguous) to indulge one's caprice:sibi oringenio suo indulgere (Nep. Chabr. 3)
(ambiguous) a good conscience:mens bene sibi conscia
(ambiguous) a guilty conscience:animus male sibi conscius
(ambiguous) to be conscious of no ill deed:nullius culpae sibi conscium esse
(ambiguous) to be consistent:sibi constare, constantem esse
(ambiguous) to dress oneself:induere vestem (withoutsibi)
(ambiguous) to betroth oneself, get engaged:sibi (aliquam) despondere (of the man)
(ambiguous) to separate from, divorce (of the man):aliquam suas res sibi habereiubere (Phil. 2. 28. 69)
(ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means:tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
(ambiguous) to assume a despotic tone:regios spiritus sibi sumere
(ambiguous) to make oneself master of a people, country:populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (notsibi by itself)
