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1 dēfectiō
dēfectiō ōnis, f [deficio], a failing, failure, want, lack, disappearance: virium: animi mei, despondency: solis et lunae, eclipse.—A defection, desertion, rebellion, revolt: facta datis obsidibus, Cs.: in defectione esse, L.: Pompei: conscientia defectionis, Ta.: a rectā ratione. — Exhaustion: manifesta, Ta.: defectionem fugere, i. e. tedious prolongation.* * *desertion/revolt/defection; failure/deficiency; ellipsis (grammar); eclipse; weakness/faintness/despondency; swoon/faint, exaustion (L+S); disappearance -
2 īnfrāctiō
īnfrāctiō ōnis, f [1 in+FRAC-], a breaking, weakening: animi, despondency. -
3 contritio
grief, dismay, despondency; grinding (L+S) -
4 pusillanimitas
faintheartedness, timidity, cowardness, lack of courage; despondency -
5 abjectio
abjectĭo, ōnis, f. [abicio].* I. * II.Abjectio animi, dejection, despondency (joined h. l. with debilitatio), Cic. Pis. 36, 88. -
6 contractio
contractĭo, ōnis, f. [contraho], a drawing together, contraction (in good prose; most freq. in Cic.).I.Lit.:B.contractio et porrectio digitorum,
Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150:bracchii (opp. projectio),
id. Or. 18, 59:superciliorum (opp. remissio),
id. Off. 1, 41, 146:frontis,
id. Sest. 8, 19:umerorum (opp. allevatio),
Quint. 11, 3, 83:nervorum,
a contraction, cramp, Scrib. Comp. 255;without nervorum,
Plin. 20, 17, 73, § 191: bonorum, i. e. consolidation, Gai Inst. 2, 155.—Hence,Transf., an abridging, shortening, abridgment, shortness:* II.paginae,
Cic. Att. 5, 4, 4: syllabae, shortening in pronunciation (opp. productio), id. de Or. 3, 50, 196:orationis (opp. longitudo),
id. Part. Or. 6, 19.—Trop.: animi in dolore, dejection, undue depression, despondency (opp. effusio animi in laetitiā), Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 66; cf. id. ib. 4, 6, 14: animos demittunt et contrahunt; v. contraho, II. B. -
7 defectio
dēfectĭo, ōnis, f. [deficio].I.Defection, desertion, rebellion, revolt.A.Lit.:* B.rebellio facta post deditionem, defectio datis obsidibus,
Caes. B. G. 3, 10; 5, 26; 6, 3, 4; Liv. 7, 42; 23, 12: Ampsivariorum a tergo, in the rear (of Caesar), Tac. A. 2, 8; 4, 24 et saep.:subita defectio Pompeii,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 4 al.:imperii,
from the empire, Just. 41, 2, 1.—Trop.:II.intemperantia, quae est a tota mente et a recta ratione defectio,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 22.—(Acc. to deficio, no. III.) A failing, failure, deficiency, want, disappearance.a.Lit. (so most freq.):b.ista ipsa defectio virium adolescentiae vitiis efficitur saepius quam senectutis,
Cic. de Sen. 9, 29:aquarum, Frontin. Aquaed. 91: pecuniae,
Macr. Sat. 2, 5:rerum,
Sen. Q. N. 4, 2.—Esp. of the obscuration of the heavenly bodies, an eclipse:c.solis defectiones itemque lunae praedicuntur in multos annos,
Cic. Div. 2, 6, 17; 1, 49 fin.; id. N. D. 2, 61; id. Rep. 1, 14 fin.; Sen. Q. N. 1, 12; Quint. 1, 10, 47; Tac. A. 1, 28 et saep.—Also (sc. virium), exhaustion, faintness, swooning, fainting (post-Aug. prose), Plin. 23, praef. §d.4: animae,
a swoon, Cels. 7, 33; Suet. Cal. 50:alvo usque ad defectionem soluta,
id. Vesp. 24; cf. id. Tib. 73:recreandae defectioni cibum adferre,
Tac. A. 6, 56 (50); cf.: defectione perire, by exhaustion, i. e. by disease, Sen. N. Q. 2, 59, 11:in cunctis renibus,
Vulg. Nahum 2, 10.—In the later grammarians, an ellipsis:* B.dicere aliquid per defectionem,
by ellipsis, elliptically, Gell. 5, 8, 3; 12, 14, 3; Macr. Sat. 6, 8 al.—Trop.:Quintus frater omnia mittit spei plena, metuens credo defectionem animi mei,
my want of courage, despondency, Cic. Att. 3, 18. -
8 infractio
infractĭo, ōnis, f. [infringo], a breaking to pieces, Prisc. 1282 P.—II.
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