oblivion

oblīvĭo, ōnis, f. [obliviscor].

Lit., a being forgotten, forgetfulness, oblivion (class.):

oblivio veteris belli,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4 init.:

laudem alicujus ab oblivione atque a silentio vindicare,

to rescue from oblivion, id. de Or. 2, 2, 7:

meam tuorum erga me meritorum memoriam nulla umquam delebit oblivio,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

dare aliquid oblivioni,

to consign to oblivion, Liv. 1, 31, 3:

oblivione obruere,

Cic. Brut. 15, 60; for which (late Lat.): oblivioni tradere, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 31, 2; Hier. in Psa. 68, 1 al.:

omnes ejus injurias voluntariā quādam oblivione contriveram,

had consigned to oblivion, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

in oblivionem negoti venire,

to forget, id. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 79:

satius erat ista in oblivionem ire,

to be forgotten, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 7 init.:

in oblivionem diuturnitate adduci,

Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 54:

capit me oblivio alicujus rei,

I forget something, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

per oblivionem,

through forgetfulness, Suet. Caes. 28:

in oblivione est,

is forgotten, Vulg. Luc. 12, 6.—In plur.:

carpere lividas Obliviones,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 34; Gell. 9, 5, 6; Quint. Decl. 306.—

Transf.

Subject., a forgetting, forgetfulness (post-Aug.):

in eo (Claudio) mirati sunt homines et oblivionem et inconsiderantiam,

Suet. Claud. 39, Tac. A. 11, 38.—

Concr

Oblivio litterarum, a poet. designation of Orbilius Pupillus, a grammarian, who lost his memory in his old age, Bibacul. ap. Suet. Gram. 9.—

Flumen Oblivionis, an appellation of the river Limia, in Hispania Tarraconensis, acc. to the Gr. ho tês lêthês, Mel. 3, 1, 8; Flor. 2, 17, 12; called flumen Oblivio, Liv Epit. 55.

* * *

* * *

* * *

forgetfulness, oblivion.

ē-vānesco, nŭi, 3 ( part. fut. evaniturus, Lact. 5, 4 fin.), v. inch. n., to vanish or pass away, to die away, to disappear (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

Bacchi cum flos evanuit (with diffugere in auras),

Lucr. 3, 222:

evanescere paulatim et decrescere pondus,

id. 5, 536:

evanescere stinguique colorem,

id. 2, 828:

pruna,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 6:

aquae,

to evaporate, Sen. Q. N. 3, 24; cf.:

vinum et salsamentum vetustate,

i. e. to lose its strength, become vapid, Cic. Div. 2, 57:

cornuaque extremae velut evanescere lunae,

Ov. M. 2, 117 et saep.:

et procul in tenuem ex oculis evanuit auram,

Verg. A. 9, 658; Ov. M. 14, 432; id. F. 2, 509.—

Of persons who flee or hide themselves through fear, Flor. 3, 3, 18; Amm. 16, 6, 3. —

Trop.: ne cum poëta scriptura evanesceret, to die away, sink into oblivion, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 5; cf.:

omnis eorum memoria sensim obscurata est et evanuit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 95:

orationes,

id. Brut. 27 fin.:

Hortensius,

id. ib. 94:

sententiae Aristonis, Pyrrhonis (opp. stabilitatem habere),

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85 et saep.:

postea quam extenuari spem nostram et evanescere vidi,

id. Att. 3, 13:

rumor,

Liv. 28, 25; 44, 31:

fama,

id. 33, 8:

ingenium,

id. 2, 48:

omnis vis herbarum,

Ov. M. 14, 356:

bella per taedia et moras (opp. valida impetu),

Tac. H. 2, 32: donatio, i. e. to lose its effect (opp. valere), Dig. 24, 1, 11, § 7; cf.:

actio dotis,

ib. 24, 3, 21:

evanescunt haec atque emoriuntur comparatione meliorum,

Quint. 12, 10, 75.

lētum (sometimes written lēthum, from a supposed connection with lêthê), i, n. [acc. to Varr. L. L. 7, § 42 Müll., and Paul. ex Fest. p. 115 Müll., from lêthê; more prob. acc. to Prisc. p. 665 and 898 P., from leo, whence also deleo; root lī-; cf. Sanscr. vi-lī, to dissolve; Gr. limnê, limên, loimos]. death (ante-class., and in the class. period mostly poet.): ollus apparet in funeribus indictivis, cum dicitur: ollus leto datus est (qs. was [p. 1053] given up to oblivion), Varr. L. L. 7, § 42 Müll.—The phrase leto datus, dead: leto dare, to kill, often occurs:

sos leto datos divos habento,

Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: quorum liberi leto dati sunt in bello, Enn. ap. Non. 15, 13 (Trag. v. 378 Vahl.):

qui te leto dabit,

Pac. ib. 355, 18 (Trag. Rel. p. 79 Rib.); Verg. A. 5, 806; 11, 172; 12, 328; Ov. H. 2, 147:

utrumque largus leto dedit ingenii fons,

Juv. 10, 119; Phaedr. 1, 21, 9; 3, 16, 18: letum inimico deprecer, Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 10 (Trag. v. 162 Vahl.):

emortuus leto malo,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 5, 1:

letum sibi consciscere,

id. Mil. 4, 6, 26:

responde, quo leto censes ut peream,

id. Merc. 2, 4, 15:

leto offerre caput,

Lucr. 3, 1041:

mortis letique potitus,

id. 4, 766:

eodem sibi leto, quo ipse interisset, esse pereundum,

Cic. Div. 1, 26, 56:

turpi leto perire,

id. Att. 10, 10, 5:

ferre (alicui),

Verg. A. 11, 872:

leto sternendus,

id. ib. 8, 566:

sibi parere manu,

id. ib. 6, 434:

ostentant omnia letum,

Cat. 64, 187:

leto jam mala finissem,

Tib. 2, 6, 19:

leto adimere aliquem,

to save from death, Hor. C. 3, 22, 3:

leto se eripere,

Verg. A. 2, 134:

pari leto affici,

Nep. Reg. 3, 2:

me pessimo leto adficere,

Liv. 22, 53, 11:

novo genere leti mergi,

id. 1, 51, 9; 2, 40, 10:

oppetere,

id. 45, 26.—

Personified:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278. —

Transf., of inanim, subjects, ruin, destruction ( poet. for interitus):

tenues Teucrum res eripe leto,

Verg. A. 5, 690; cf.:

tum me, Juppiter Optime Maxime, domum, familiam remque meam pessimo leto afficias,

Liv. 12, 53, 11.

lētum (sometimes written lēthum, from a supposed connection with lêthê), i, n. [acc. to Varr. L. L. 7, § 42 Müll., and Paul. ex Fest. p. 115 Müll., from lêthê; more prob. acc. to Prisc. p. 665 and 898 P., from leo, whence also deleo; root lī-; cf. Sanscr. vi-lī, to dissolve; Gr. limnê, limên, loimos]. death (ante-class., and in the class. period mostly poet.): ollus apparet in funeribus indictivis, cum dicitur: ollus leto datus est (qs. was [p. 1053] given up to oblivion), Varr. L. L. 7, § 42 Müll.—The phrase leto datus, dead: leto dare, to kill, often occurs:

sos leto datos divos habento,

Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: quorum liberi leto dati sunt in bello, Enn. ap. Non. 15, 13 (Trag. v. 378 Vahl.):

qui te leto dabit,

Pac. ib. 355, 18 (Trag. Rel. p. 79 Rib.); Verg. A. 5, 806; 11, 172; 12, 328; Ov. H. 2, 147:

utrumque largus leto dedit ingenii fons,

Juv. 10, 119; Phaedr. 1, 21, 9; 3, 16, 18: letum inimico deprecer, Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 10 (Trag. v. 162 Vahl.):

emortuus leto malo,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 5, 1:

letum sibi consciscere,

id. Mil. 4, 6, 26:

responde, quo leto censes ut peream,

id. Merc. 2, 4, 15:

leto offerre caput,

Lucr. 3, 1041:

mortis letique potitus,

id. 4, 766:

eodem sibi leto, quo ipse interisset, esse pereundum,

Cic. Div. 1, 26, 56:

turpi leto perire,

id. Att. 10, 10, 5:

ferre (alicui),

Verg. A. 11, 872:

leto sternendus,

id. ib. 8, 566:

sibi parere manu,

id. ib. 6, 434:

ostentant omnia letum,

Cat. 64, 187:

leto jam mala finissem,

Tib. 2, 6, 19:

leto adimere aliquem,

to save from death, Hor. C. 3, 22, 3:

leto se eripere,

Verg. A. 2, 134:

pari leto affici,

Nep. Reg. 3, 2:

me pessimo leto adficere,

Liv. 22, 53, 11:

novo genere leti mergi,

id. 1, 51, 9; 2, 40, 10:

oppetere,

id. 45, 26.—

Personified:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278. —

Transf., of inanim, subjects, ruin, destruction ( poet. for interitus):

tenues Teucrum res eripe leto,

Verg. A. 5, 690; cf.:

tum me, Juppiter Optime Maxime, domum, familiam remque meam pessimo leto afficias,

Liv. 12, 53, 11.

oblittĕro ( oblīt-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [oblino], to blot out, strike out, erase, obliterate.

Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare;

syn. deleo): oblitterata aerarii monumenta,

Tac. A. 13, 23 fin. —

Trop., to blot out of remembrance, consign to oblivion, cause to be forgotten (esp. freq. in post-Aug. prose; principally in Tac.): inimicitias Pelopidarum exstinctā tam oblitteratas memoriā renovare, Att. ap. Non. 146, 30 (oblitterare est obscurefacere et in oblivionem ducere, Non. 146, 28); Cic. Vatin. 6, 15:

famam rei,

Liv. 39, 20:

rem,

id. 3, 71:

memoriam,

id. 21, 29:

mandata,

Cat. 64, 232:

rem silentio,

Suet. Tib. 22:

ne ritus sacrorum oblitterarentur,

Tac. A. 11, 15:

conjugia,

id. ib. 3, 34:

oblitterari in animo,

to become forgotten, Liv. 26, 41.

oblittĕro ( oblīt-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [oblino], to blot out, strike out, erase, obliterate.

Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare;

syn. deleo): oblitterata aerarii monumenta,

Tac. A. 13, 23 fin. —

Trop., to blot out of remembrance, consign to oblivion, cause to be forgotten (esp. freq. in post-Aug. prose; principally in Tac.): inimicitias Pelopidarum exstinctā tam oblitteratas memoriā renovare, Att. ap. Non. 146, 30 (oblitterare est obscurefacere et in oblivionem ducere, Non. 146, 28); Cic. Vatin. 6, 15:

famam rei,

Liv. 39, 20:

rem,

id. 3, 71:

memoriam,

id. 21, 29:

mandata,

Cat. 64, 232:

rem silentio,

Suet. Tib. 22:

ne ritus sacrorum oblitterarentur,

Tac. A. 11, 15:

conjugia,

id. ib. 3, 34:

oblitterari in animo,

to become forgotten, Liv. 26, 41.

ob-rŭo, ŭi, ŭtum, 3 ( inf. pres. pass. OBRI for obrui, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 341; v. in the foll. I. B. 1.), v. a. (n. Lucr. 3, 775; v. infra), to overwhelm, overthrow, strike down; to cover, cover over with any thing; also to hide in the ground, bury by heaping over (class.; cf.: opprimo, subruo).

Lit.

In gen.:

aliquem caestu,

Stat. Achill. 1, 191:

concidit, et totis fratrem gravis obruit armis,

id. Th. 11, 573; Verg. A. 5, 692:

confossus undique obruitur,

Curt. 8, 11:

ranae marinae dicuntur obruere sese harenā solere,

bury themselves in the sand, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

thesaurum,

to bury, id. Sen. 7, 21:

ova,

to hide in the earth, id. N. D. 2, 52, 129:

aegros veste,

to cover, Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 16: oceanum rubra tractim obruit aethra, covered, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 418 Vahl.); so,

terram nox obruit umbris,

Lucr. 6, 864.—

In partic., to bury, inter a dead body (perh. only post-Aug.), Tac. A. 1, 29 fin.:

cadaver levi caespite obrutum est,

Suet. Calig. 59: cujus ossa in Vulcanali obruta sunt, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. statua, p. 290 Müll.: QVOD SE VOLVIT OBRI. Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 341.—

To sink in the sea, cover with water:

puppes,

Verg. A. 1, 69:

quos Obruit Auster,

overwhelmed, sunk, id. ib. 6, 336:

navem,

Dig. 9, 2, 29:

obrutus adulter aquis,

Ov. Her. 1, 6:

obruerit cum tot deus aequoris undis,

id. P. 3, 6, 29:

vultus,

id. Tr. 1, 2, 34:

Aegyptum Nilus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52.—

To sow seed; cover with earth:

semina terrā,

Ov. R. Am. 173:

milium,

Col. 11, 2, 72:

lupinum,

id. 11, 2, 81:

betam,

id. 11, 3, 42.—

To overload, surfeit with any thing:

se vino,

Cic. Deiot. 9. —

Trop.

To overwhelm, bury, conceal, put out of sight, abolish, consign to oblivion:

ut adversā quasi perpetuā oblivione obruamus,

Cic. Fin. 1, 17, 57; cf.:

ea quae umquam vetustas obruet aut quae tanta delebit oblivio?

id. Deiot. 13, 37; and:

(sermo) nec umquam de ullo perennis fuit, et obruitur hominum interitu,

id. Rep. 6, 23, 25:

talis viri interitu sex suos obruere consulatus,

to dim, cloud, destroy the glory of six consulships, id. Tusc. 5, 19, 56.—

Neutr.:

et domus aetatis spatio ne fessa vetusto obruat,

i. e. fall to ruin, Lucr. 3, 775.—

To overwhelm, overload, weigh down, oppress with any thing:

criminibus obrutus atque oppressus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 20; so,

copiā sententiarum atque verborum,

id. Tusc. 2, 1, 3:

ambitione, et foro,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

aere alieno,

id. Att. 2, 1, 11; cf.

faenore,

Liv. 6, 14; 35, 7:

magnitudine negotii,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4.—

To overcome, overpower, surpass, eclipse, obscure:

famam alicujus,

Tac. Agr. 17:

obruimur numero,

are outnumbered, Verg. A. 2, 424:

obruit Idaeam quantum tuba Martia buxum,

Val. Fl. 1, 320:

M. Brutus Vatinium dignatione obruerat,

Vell. 2, 69:

Venus Nymphas obruit,

Stat. Achill. 1, 293.