occumbō

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occumbo ( obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n. [ob-cumbo, cubo], to fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence,

To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.):

cometes cum oriretur occumberetque,

Just. 37, 2, 3:

cum sol occumberet,

Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.—

To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.

Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.):

aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus,

Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.:

circa se dimicans occubuerat,

id. Tit. 4:

fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 18:

dederat ne ferro occumbere posset,

id. M. 12, 207:

acie,

Suet. Ner. 2.—

With mortem or morte (the vacillation of MSS. between these two forms makes it difficult to ascertain which was the prevailing one; cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 387;

Krebs, Antibarb. p. 790): pro patriā mortem (al. morte) occumbere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102 (Kühner, Moser, Orelli, and Baiter have mortem, Klotz and Fischer morte):

quod liberata patria... mortem occubuisset,

Liv. 2, 7, 8; 3, 50, 8; 26, 25, 14:

qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent,

id. 31, 18, 6. —So, too, letum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 390 Vahl.):

necem voluntariam,

Suet. Aug. 13 (al., with inferior MSS., nece voluntariā):

ictus clavā morte occubuit,

Liv. 1, 7, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

morte occumbentis,

id. 8, 10, 4:

ambo pro republicā morte occubuisse,

id. 38, 58.—

With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so,

certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci,

Ov. M. 15, 499.—

To succumb to, fall by the hand of one ( poet.).—With dat.:

Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis,

Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per:

per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem,

Ov. M. 7, 437. —

Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.

to fall, topple, drop / fall dead.

occumbo ( obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n. [ob-cumbo, cubo], to fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence,

To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.):

cometes cum oriretur occumberetque,

Just. 37, 2, 3:

cum sol occumberet,

Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.—

To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.

Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.):

aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus,

Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.:

circa se dimicans occubuerat,

id. Tit. 4:

fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos,

Ov. A. A. 3, 18:

dederat ne ferro occumbere posset,

id. M. 12, 207:

acie,

Suet. Ner. 2.—

With mortem or morte (the vacillation of MSS. between these two forms makes it difficult to ascertain which was the prevailing one; cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 387;

Krebs, Antibarb. p. 790): pro patriā mortem (al. morte) occumbere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102 (Kühner, Moser, Orelli, and Baiter have mortem, Klotz and Fischer morte):

quod liberata patria... mortem occubuisset,

Liv. 2, 7, 8; 3, 50, 8; 26, 25, 14:

qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent,

id. 31, 18, 6. —So, too, letum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 390 Vahl.):

necem voluntariam,

Suet. Aug. 13 (al., with inferior MSS., nece voluntariā):

ictus clavā morte occubuit,

Liv. 1, 7, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.:

morte occumbentis,

id. 8, 10, 4:

ambo pro republicā morte occubuisse,

id. 38, 58.—

With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so,

certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci,

Ov. M. 15, 499.—

To succumb to, fall by the hand of one ( poet.).—With dat.:

Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis,

Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per:

per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem,

Ov. M. 7, 437. —

Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.

mŏrĭor, mortŭus, 3 ( fut. part. moriturus, a, um, Cic. Arch. 12, 30; id. Div. 2, 25, 54; 2, 47, 99; Liv. 21, 12, 4; Verg. A. 4, 308; id. ib. 2, 511 et saep.; old forms acc. to the fourth conj.: si vivimu' sive morīmur, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 830 P.; Ann. v. 384 Vahl.; inf. moriri, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 108; id. Capt. 3, 5, 54; id. Rud. 3, 3, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 124 Ritschl N. cr.; Ov. M. 14, 215), v. dep. [Sanscr. root mar-, die; Gr. mor- (mro-, bro-), mar; brotos, marainô; cf.: morbus, marceo], to die (cf.: pereo, intereo, occĭdo, occumbo, obeo, exspiro; class.).

Lit.: vivam an moriar, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. metus, p. 123 Müll. (Trag. v. 179 Vahl.): ego cum genui, tum morituros scivi, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 28 (Trag. v. 361 Vahl.):

mori,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 24:

atque eundem (L. Tarquinium)... accepimus mortuum esse, cum duodequadraginta regnavisset annos,

Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 36:

moriendum certe est,

id. Sen. 20, 74:

desiderio,

of desire, id. Att. 1, 3, 1:

ut fame senatores quinque morerentur,

id. ib. 6, 1, 6:

me esse homines mortuom dicant fame,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 57; so,

fame,

Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 3; 1, 7, 8:

fame et siti,

Liv. 7, 35, 8: siti, id. 4, 30, 8; Petr. 10; Pomp. ap. Gell. 10, 24, 5:

vigilando,

Juv. 3, 232: ex vulnere, of a wound, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:

in tormentis,

Liv. 40, 23:

alterius amore,

Ov. Am. 2, 7, 10:

curis,

Tib. 2, 7, 33 (6, 51):

fame,

Petr. 10:

inediā,

Plin. 14, 13, 14, § 89:

significabat interruptis atque morientibus vocibus,

dying accents, the accents of a dying man, Cic. Cael. 24, 59:

mori videbamus in studio dimetiundi paene caeli atque terrae C. Galum,

spend his whole life in, id. Sen. 14, 49:

cum te complexā morientem, Galle, puellā Vidimus,

desperately in love, dying for love, Prop. 1, 10, 5:

ei mihi, si quis, Acrius ut moriar, venerit alter amor,

id. 2, 4, 1 sq.: moriar, si, may I die, if, etc., Cic. Att. 8, 6, 4.—

Transf., of things, to die away, decay, to wither away, pass away, to vanish, lose its strength, etc.;

of members of the body: id quod supra vinculum est, moritur,

loses its vitality, Cels. 7, 14.—Of plants:

rutam et hederas illico mori,

die away, perish, Plin. 28, 7, 23, § 78:

moriturque ad sibila campus,

Stat. Th. 5, 528.—Of fire:

flammas vidi nullo concutiente mori,

die out, go out, Ov. Am. 1, 2, 11;

of comets: donec in exiguum moriens vanesceret ignem,

Claud. B. Get. 248:

unguenta moriuntur,

lose their strength, Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 20.— To end, close:

dies quidem jam ad umbilicum est dimidiatus mortuus,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 45.—Comic.:

vae illis virgis miseris, quae hodie in tergo morientur meo,

will find their death, be destroyed, broken, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 117:

ut iste interpositus sermo deliciarum desidiaeque moreretur,

Cic. Cael. 31, 76:

ne suavissimi hominis memoria moreretur,

id. Pis. 38, 93:

cum multa cotidie ab antiquis ficta moriantur,

fall into disuse, become obsolete, Quint. 8, 6, 32:

gratia,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 27. —Esp. (in eccl. Lat.), of the loss of moral or spiritual vitality, to die, to lose virtue and divine guidance:

in Adam omnes moriuntur,

Vulg. 1 Cor. 15, 22:

confirma cetera quae moritura erant,

id. Apoc. 3, 2; cf. id. Johan. 11, 26; id. Rom. 7, 9.—Hence, mŏrtŭus, a, um, P. a., dead (class.).

Adj.

Lit.:

sanguine tauri poto mortuus concidit,

Cic. Brut. 11, 43.—Prov.:

mortuum esse alicui,

to be dead to one, to wish to have nothing further to do with him, Plaut. Cist. 3, 15.—

Transf.

Of persons, faint, overwhelmed:

cum tu, quod tibi succederetur, exsanguis et mortuus concidisti,

Cic. Pis. 36, 88.—

Of things concr. and abstr., dead, decayed, withered, passed away, etc.:

lacerti,

Cic. Sen. 9, 27:

flores,

Plin. 11, 8, 8, § 18:

et antiquae leges,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18, § 45:

plausus,

id. Att. 2, 19, 3:

mortuā re verba nunc facis. Stultus es, rem actam agis,

dead, done with, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27.—

Mare mortuum.

The North Sea of Europe, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 94.—

The Dead Sea of Judea, Just. 36, 3.—

Subst.: mŏrtŭus, i, m., a dead person, dead man:

mortuum in domum inferre,

Cic. Mil. 27, 75:

a mortuis excitare,

to awake from the dead, id. de Or 1, 57, 242:

amandare aliquem infra mortuos,

even below the dead, id. Quint. 15, 49:

ut multis mortuus unus sufficeret,

Juv. 15, 79:

ossa mortuorum,

Vulg. Matt. 23, 27.—Prov.: mortuo verba facere, to talk to a dead man, i. e. in vain, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 18; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 26.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.), dead, without spiritual life:

nomen habes quod vivas et mortuus es,

Vulg. Apoc. 3, 1:

fides sine operibus mortua est,

id. Jac. 2, 26; cf. id. Eph. 2, 1; 5, 14.—Also, dead to any thing, not alive to it, not open to its influence, etc.:

peccato,

Vulg. Rom. 6, 2:

peccatis,

id. 1 Pet. 2, 24:

legi,

id. Gal. 2, 19; cf.:

mortui cum Christo ab elementis hujus mundi,

id. Col. 2, 20:

mortui estis, et vita vestra est abscondita cum Christo in Deo,

id. ib. 3, 3.

ŏb-ĕo, īvi or ĭi (obivi, Verg. A. 6, 801; Aus. Epit. 32, 4; Anthol. Lat. 4, 97, 1;

contr. obit for obiit,

Lucr. 3, 1042; Luc. 9, 189; Juv. 6, 559), ĭtum, 4 (lengthened form, obinunt obeunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 189 Müll.), v. n. and a.

Neutr., to go or come to or towards, to come in, to go to meet, go against (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

In gen.:

donec vis obiit,

until force intervene, Lucr. 1, 222:

dum acris vis obeat,

id. 1, 247:

obit infera Perseus in loca,

Cic. Arat. 465 (Grot. 718):

ad omnes hostium conatus,

to go to meet, to oppose, Liv. 31, 21. —

In partic.

Of constellations, to go down, to set:

abditur Orion, obit et Lepus abditus umbrā,

Cic. Arat. 46, 3 (Grot. 716); Stat. S. 2, 1, 210:

an sidera obirent, nascerenturve,

Plin. 2, 26, 24, § 95.—Of the sun:

in reliquis orientis aut obeuntis solis partibus,

Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22:

in undis Sol fit uti videatur obire et condere lumen,

Lucr. 4, 433.—Hence, to pass by:

tres noctes,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 11.—

Pregn., to fall, perish (syn.:

occido, pereo, occumbo). —Of cities: et Agamede obiit et Hiera,

Plin. 5, 31, 39, § 139; id. 5, 29, 31, § 117.— —Hence, to die:

malo cruciatu ut pereas atque obeas cito,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 76; Lucr. 3, 1045;

tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 24:

simul se cum illis obituros,

Liv. 5, 39, 13:

gaudio,

to die of joy, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180:

morbo,

of a disease, id. 11, 37, 71, § 187; Vell. 2, 47, 2; 2, 102, 1; Tac. A. 3, 6; Suet. Aug. 63; id. Tib. 39; id. Ner. 3; Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 10; 6, 2, 5:

voluntariā morte obiit,

Suet. Galb. 3 fin.; Vell. 2, 8, 7; Eutr. 7, 17:

morte subitā,

id. 8, 15:

repentinā morte,

id. 10, 17; Ambros. Ep. 53, 3.—

Act. (freq. and class.), to go or come to a thing or place.

In gen.:

Acherontem nunc obibo, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. ob, p. 201 Müll. (Trag. v. 278 Vahl.): tantum restitisset urbis, quantum flamma obire non potuisset,

to reach, Cic. Cat. 3, 10, 25.—

In partic.

To travel over or through; to wander through, traverse, visit:

nec vero Alcides tantum telluris obivit,

Verg. A. 6, 801:

tantas regiones barbarorum pedibus obiit,

Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 87:

villas,

to visit, id. Fam. 7, 1, 5:

comitia,

id. Att. 1, 4, 1:

cenas,

id. ib. 9, 13, 6. —

To run over with the eyes, to survey, review:

oculis exercitum,

to survey, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 13:

omnia visu,

Verg. A. 10, 447.—In speaking, to go over, mention, recount:

oratione omnes civitates,

to enumerate, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 125.—

To go around, surround, overspread, envelop ( poet.):

chlamydem limbus obibat Aureus,

Ov. M. 5, 51:

clipeum,

Verg. A. 10, 482.—

To apply [p. 1234] one's self to, to engage in, attend to any business or undertaking; to enter upon an office; to discharge, perform, execute, accomplish any thing:

obeundi negotii studio tot loca adire,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 34:

hereditatum obeundarum causā,

to enter upon, take possession of, id. Agr. 1, 3, 8:

facinus,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

pugnas,

to engage in battle, Verg. A. 6, 167; Val. Fl. 3, 710:

judicia,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173:

legationem,

to enter upon, undertake, id. Att. 15, 7; Nep. Dion. 1, 4:

consularia munera,

Liv. 2, 8:

munus vigiliarum,

id. 3, 6:

publica ac privata officia,

Just. 41, 3, 4:

neque privatam rem... neque publicam,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53:

ne ad omnia simul obire unus non possit,

Liv. 10, 25, 14:

rusticum opus,

Col. 12, 3:

bella,

Liv. 4, 7:

sacra,

id. 1, 20:

imperia,

to perform, execute, Stat. Achill. 1, 149.—

To meet:

vadimonium,

to meet one's bail, appear at the appointed time, Cic. Quint. 17, 54:

diem,

to appear on the day appointed, id. Lael. 2, 7; id. Phil. 3, 8, 29; id. Att. 13, 14, 1:

annum petitiones tuae,

i. e. to be a candidate the first year the law permits, id. Fam. 10, 25.—Hence, diem suum obire, to die:

ea diem suom obiit,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 27; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Gell. 6, 8, 6; so,

diem supremum,

Nep. Milt. 7, 6;

and simply, diem,

Suet. Vesp. 1:

mortem,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 15; Cic. Phil. 5, 17, 48; hence, in the pass.:

morte obitā (sc. ob rem publicam),

id. Sest. 38, 83.—Hence, P. a. (anteand post-class.): ŏbĭtus, a, um, for mortuus, dead, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.: obiti, the dead:

obitis libatione profunditur,

App. de Mund. p. 68:

OBITAE,

Inscr. Orell. 2673.

oppĕto ( obp-), īvi and ii, ītum, 3, v. a. [ob-peto], to go to meet, to encounter (an evil, esp. death; class.; syn.: obeo, occumbo, intereo): malam pestem, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38 (Trag. v. 15 Vahl.); so,

pestem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 7 —Esp.: mortem, to encounter death, for to perish, die (only of a violent or unnatural death), Enn. ap. Non. 507, 19 (Trag. v. 235 Vahl.):

cum milites pro salute populi Romani mortem oppetiverint,

Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38; cf.:

clarae mortes pro patriā oppetitae,

id. Tusc. 1, 49, 116:

poenas superbiae,

to suffer for one's pride, Phaedr. 3, 16, 2.—

In partic., pregn. for oppetere mortem, to perish, die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

quīs ante ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis Contigit oppetere,

Verg. A. 1, 96; 11, 268; 12, 543:

eodem mari,

Tac. A. 2, 24:

non senio, sed fame,

Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 15: gloriosā morte, to die a glorious death, Prud. steph. 10, 65.

occŭbĭtus, ūs, m. [occumbo], a going down, setting (eccl. Lat.):

solis,

Hier. Ep. 108, n. 34; Vulg. Gen. 28, 11; id. Deut. 11, 30.—

Transf., death, Hier. Ep. 27 ext.

oppĕto ( obp-), īvi and ii, ītum, 3, v. a. [ob-peto], to go to meet, to encounter (an evil, esp. death; class.; syn.: obeo, occumbo, intereo): malam pestem, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38 (Trag. v. 15 Vahl.); so,

pestem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 7 —Esp.: mortem, to encounter death, for to perish, die (only of a violent or unnatural death), Enn. ap. Non. 507, 19 (Trag. v. 235 Vahl.):

cum milites pro salute populi Romani mortem oppetiverint,

Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38; cf.:

clarae mortes pro patriā oppetitae,

id. Tusc. 1, 49, 116:

poenas superbiae,

to suffer for one's pride, Phaedr. 3, 16, 2.—

In partic., pregn. for oppetere mortem, to perish, die ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

quīs ante ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis Contigit oppetere,

Verg. A. 1, 96; 11, 268; 12, 543:

eodem mari,

Tac. A. 2, 24:

non senio, sed fame,

Plin. 10, 3, 4, § 15: gloriosā morte, to die a glorious death, Prud. steph. 10, 65.