swoon away

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ex-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall out or down, to fall from (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.: quod (animal) cum ex utero elapsum excidit, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

sol excidisse mihi e mundo videtur,

id. Att. 9, 10, 3:

gladii de manibus exciderunt,

id. Pis. 9 fin.; cf. id. Phil. 12, 3, 8; id. Cat. 1, 6 fin.;

for which also: inter manus (urna),

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 22; and:

a digitis (ansa),

Ov. H. 16, 252:

Palinurus exciderat puppi,

Verg. A. 6, 339; cf.

arce,

Ov. F. 5, 34:

equis,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1164:

num qui nummi exciderunt, here, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17; cf. id. Cist. 4, 2, 8; id. Merc. 3, 1, 44; id. Poen. 1, 2, 48:

volvae excidunt,

Plin. 36, 21, 39, § 151.— Poet.:

ita vinclis Excidet aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit,

will slip out of the fetters, Verg. G. 4, 410:

in flumen (elephanti, sc. e rate),

Liv. 21, 28 fin.:

cum Herculis pertractanti arma sagitta excidisset in pedem,

Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66:

ante pedes (lingua resecta),

Ov. Ib. 536.—

In partic., of a lot, to fall of come out (very rare):

ut cujusque sors exciderat,

Liv. 21, 42, 3;

and hence, transf.: nominibus in urnam conjectis, citari quod primum sorte nomen excidit,

id. 23, 3, 7.

Trop.

In gen., to fall out involuntarily, fall from, slip out, escape:

verbum ex ore alicujus,

Cic. Sull. 26; cf.:

vox excidit ore: Venisti tandem, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 686:

tantumque nefas patrio excidit ore?

id. ib. 2, 658; cf.:

scelus ore tuo,

Ov. M. 7, 172:

quod verbum tibi non excidit, ut saepe fit, fortuito,

Cic. Phil. 10, 2 fin.; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 23; 7, 2, 52; 9, 4, 41 al.:

libellus me imprudente et invito excidit,

escaped me without my knowledge or desire, Cic. de Or. 1, 21; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

vox horrenda per auras excidit,

Verg. A. 9, 113:

et pariter vultusque deo plectrumque colorque Excidit,

Ov. M. 2, 602; cf. id. ib. 4, 176:

ut quodammodo victoria e manibus excideret,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2:

(versus) qui in breves excidunt,

i. e. which close, terminate, Quint. 9, 4, 106.— Poet.: in vitium libertas excidit, qs. falls away, sinks, = delabitur, Hor. A. P. 282.—

In partic.

To dissent, differ from any one's opinion: ego ab Archilocho excido, Lucil. ap. Non. 301, 18.—

To pass away, be lost, perish, disappear:

neque enim verendum est, ne quid excidat aut ne quid in terram defluat,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

primo miser excidit aevo,

Prop. 3, 7, 7 (4, 6, 7 M.):

nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, etc.,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30:

at non ingenio quaesitum nomen ab aevo Excidet,

Prop. 3, 2, 24 (4, 1, 64 M.):

excidit omnis luctus,

Ov. M. 8, 448:

ne Tarentinae quidem arcis excidit memoria,

Liv. 27, 3 fin.; cf. the foll.—Esp.

To fail, faint, swoon, lose one's self:

excidit illa metu, rupitque novissima verba,

Ov. A. A. 1, 5, 39; cf.: ut scias quemadmodum nunquam excidam mihi, lose control of myself (through drink), Sen. de Ira, 3, 14, 1:

quis me dolori reddit? quam bene excideram mihi!

Sen. Hippol. 589 sq. —

To slip out, escape from the memory:

excidere de memoria,

Liv. 29, 19 fin.:

exciderat pacis mentio ex omnium animis,

id. 34, 37; cf.

animo,

Verg. A. 1, 26; Ov. H. 20, 188;

and pectore,

id. Pont. 2, 4, 24:

o miram memoriam, Pomponi, tuam! at mihi ista exciderant,

Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 46; so with dat.:

quae cogitatio, cum mihi non omnino excidisset, etc.,

id. Fam. 5, 13, 2; id. Att. 6, 1, 7; Quint. 4, 5, 4; 10, 1, 75; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 20; 4 (5), 7, 15 et saep.; cf. with a subjectclause:

non excidit mihi, scripsisse me, etc.,

Quint. 2, 3, 10.— Absol.:

quid? non haec varietas mira est, excidere proxima, vetera inhaerere? hesternorum immemores acta pueritiae recordari,

id. 11, 2, 6; 1, 12, 6; 4, 2, 91; 4, 5, 2; cf. with inf. clause:

si calore dicendi vitare id excidisset,

id. 11, 3, 130; and with ut:

excidit, ut peterem, etc.,

i. e. I forgot to beg, Ov. M. 14, 139.—Rarely transf. to the person:

excidens,

who forgets, forgetful, Quint. 11, 2, 19:

palam moneri excidentis est,

id. 11, 3, 132.—

(Ex) aliquā re, of persons, to be deprived of, to lose, miss, forfeit (esp. freq. since the Aug. per.;

in Cic. not at all): ex familia,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 104:

uxore,

to be disappointed of, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12:

regno,

Curt. 10, 5:

quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis,

failed in a great attempt, Ov. M. 2, 328; cf.:

fine medicinae,

Quint. 2, 17, 25:

genere,

id. 1, 5, 16: qui apud privatos judices plus petendo formula excidissent, i. e. who lost their suits (for the usual cadere formulā or [p. 677] causā;

v. cado, II.),

Suet. Claud. 14; Sen. Clem. 2, 3.

ex-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut out or off, to hew out, to cut or hew down (class.).

Lit.:

lapides e terra,

Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.:

omnes arbores longe lateque,

Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 1; cf.:

excisa enim est arbor, non evulsa,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 2: exciditur ilex (with percellunt magnas quercus), Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. 194 ed. Vahl.):

arborem e stirpe,

Dig. 43, 27, 1:

ericium,

Caes. B. C. 3, 67 fin.:

radicem,

Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82:

columnas rupibus,

Verg. A. 1, 428; cf.:

rubos arvis,

Quint. 9, 4, 5: linguam alicui, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1 fin.:

partum mulieri,

Dig. 11, 8, 2:

os,

Cels. 8, 3:

virilitatem,

i. e. to castrate, geld, Quint. 5, 12, 17;

for which also, se,

Ov. F. 4, 361; cf. Dig. 48, 8, 4 fin.:

vias per montes,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 125:

latus rupis in antrum,

Verg. A. 6, 42; cf.:

vasa anaglypta in asperitatem,

i. e. wrought with raised figures, Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 139: exciderat eum (sc. obeliscum) rex, majusque opus in devehendo statuendove multo quam in excidendo, i. e. cut out in the quarry, Plin. 36, 8, 14, § 67; absol., id. ib. § 65.—

Transf., in gen., to raze, demolish, lay waste, destroy:

qui domos inimicorum suorum oppugnavit, excidit, incendit,

Cic. Sest. 44:

Numantiam,

id. Off. 1. 22, 76; cf.

Trojam,

Verg. A. 2, 637:

urbem,

id. ib. 12, 762:

oppida,

Lact. 1, 18, 8:

Germaniam,

Vell. 2, 123 fin.:

agrum,

id. 2, 115:

exercitum,

i. e. to cut to pieces, annihilate, id. 2, 120, 3.—

Trop., to extirpate, remove, banish:

aliquid ex animo,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43; cf.:

iram animis, Sen. de Ira, 3, 1: aliquem numero civium,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 6.

dēfectus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from deficio.

dēfectus, ūs, m. [deficio].

(For defectio, no. I.) Defection, revolt:

magno animo defectum eorum tulit,

Curt. 7, 19, 39 Mützell.:

legionum,

Capitol. Macr. 8.—

( = defectio, no. III.) A failing, failure, lack, disappearance (freq. in the elder Pliny;

elsewhere rare): lactis (mammae),

Plin. 20, 23, 96, § 256:

stomachi,

weakness, id. 19, 5, 29, § 92:

animi,

a swoon, id. 20, 2, 6, § 12:

albicante purpurae defectu,

fading away into white, id. 37, 9, 40, § 123:

in tanto defectu rerum,

freedom from occupation, Amm. 16, 5, 5. Of the eclipsing of the heavenly bodies:

solis,

Lucr. 5, 751; imitated by Verg. G. 2, 478:

ejus (sc. lunae) species ac forma mutatur tum crescendo, tum defectibus in initia recurrendo,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19 fin.

inter-mŏrĭor, mortuus sum, 3, v. dep.

To die in secret, perish unobserved, to die off, fall to decay (not in Cic. or Cæs.), Cato, R. R. 161, 3:

radices intermoriuntur,

Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 114:

ignis,

Curt. 6, 6, 31:

civitas,

Liv. 34, 49.—

Trop.

To faint away, to swoon:

ex profluvio sanguinis intermorientes vino reficiendi sunt,

Cels. 5, 26, 25.—

Of roads, to come to an end, stop:

pars (viarum) sine ullo exitu intermoriuntur,

Dig. 43, 7, 3, § 2. —

To be neglected: nullum officium tuum apud me intermoriturum existimas, Bith. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 16.—Hence, intermortŭus, a, um, P. a., dead, faint, lifeless, powerless.

Lit.:

in ipsa contione intermortuus haud multo post exspiravit,

Liv. 37, 53, 10:

diu prope intermortuus jacuit,

Suet. Ner. 42.—

Trop.: gemmae jactatae in ignem, velut intermortuae, exstinguuntur, lose their lustre, Plin. 37, 7, 27, § 99:

contiones,

Cic. Mil. 5, 12:

mores boni plerique omnes jam sunt intermortui,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 7:

Catilinae reliquiae,

Cic. Pis. 7 fin.:

memoria generis sui,

id. Mur. 7, 16 fin.

linquo, līqui, 3 ( part. lictus, Capitol. M. Aurel. 7 dub.), v. a. [Gr. lip- in leipô, loipos; cf. Lat. licet].

To leave, quit, forsake, depart from something (cf.:

destituo, desero): urbem exsul linquat,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 69:

terram,

Cic. Planc. 10, 26:

nil intentatum nostri liquere poëtae,

Hor. A. P. 285:

linquenda tellus,

id. C. 2, 14, 21.— Absol., to go away:

linquebat comite ancilla una,

Juv. 6, 119.—

Esp.

Linqui animo, and simply linqui, to swoon, faint, Suet. Caes. 45:

linquor et ancillis excipienda cado,

Ov. H. 2, 130; so act.:

me liquit animus,

Sen. Troad. 623; Ov. M. 8, 363.—

Linquere lumen, animam, vitam, to die:

lumen linque,

Plaut. Cist. 3, 12:

dulcia linquebant labentis lumina vitae,

Lucr. 5, 989; 3, 542:

linquebant dulces animas,

Verg. A. 3, 140:

animam,

Ov. M. 13, 522; Quint. Decl. 13, 6:

nec Poenum liquere doli,

Sil. 5, 38. —

To leave, give up, resign, abandon something:

linquamus haec,

Cic. de Or. 3, 10, 38:

linquamus naturam, artesque videamus,

id. ib. 3, 46, 180:

linque severa,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 28:

spem,

Val. Fl. 1, 631:

inrita ventosae linquens promissa procellae,

Cat. 64, 59.—

To leave in any place or condition:

erum in opsidione linquet,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 14:

lupos apud oves,

id. Ps. 1, 2, 8. —

To leave behind:

linquere vacuos cultoribus agros,

Luc. 9, 162:

sui monumentum insigne pericli,

Val. Fl. 5, 231:

pharetram hospitio,

id. 1, 661.—

Impers. pass.: linquitur, it is left, it remains.— With ut and subj.: linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur. Lucr. 2, 914: et vix cernere linquitur undas, Silv. 4, 628.