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Theme for the remainder of the week: No theme

bito, bitere; also baeto, beto

Definition: to go

Sententia: Plautus Mercator, l. 465

ad portum ne bitas, dico iam tibi.

Let you not go to the port, I say to you now.

The play Mercator is has a typically twisted plot, with a love triangle and complications galore. In this section, Demipho, Charinus' father, is forbidding him from going to the port to see Pasicompsa, whom both have fallen for. The Latin text can be found here.

"Bito" is not very common, and used basically only in Plautus. Most of the times it is used it is labeled as a "conjecture," though, and its etymology is not clear.