(dē-morior)

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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.

to die, wither away, decay.

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com-mŏrĭor ( conm-), mortuus, 3, v. dep. n., to die with or at the same time with one (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.); constr. with cum, with the dat. or absol.

With cum:

in acie cum Arunte commortuus est (Brutus),

Liv. Epit. 2; Val. Max. 6, 8, 2.—

With dat.:

obviam ire et commori hostibus,

Sall. H. 1, 89 Dietsch:

hostibus suis morte suā,

Flor. 1, 18, 17; so,

tibi,

Sen. Ep. 77, 13:

simul tibi,

Vulg. Marc. 14, 31.—

Absol., Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32; 10, 21, 24, § 47; Vulg. Ecclus. 19, 10.—Hence, Commŏrĭentes, the title of a comedy of Piautus, now lost, composed in imitation of the Sunapothnêskontes of Diphilus, Ter. Ad. prol. 7, and Prisc. p. 725 P. (acc. to Att. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 9, not genuine).—

Trop.:

duo venena commoriuntur,

i. e. their effects vanish together, Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 5.

com-mŏrĭor ( conm-), mortuus, 3, v. dep. n., to die with or at the same time with one (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.); constr. with cum, with the dat. or absol.

With cum:

in acie cum Arunte commortuus est (Brutus),

Liv. Epit. 2; Val. Max. 6, 8, 2.—

With dat.:

obviam ire et commori hostibus,

Sall. H. 1, 89 Dietsch:

hostibus suis morte suā,

Flor. 1, 18, 17; so,

tibi,

Sen. Ep. 77, 13:

simul tibi,

Vulg. Marc. 14, 31.—

Absol., Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32; 10, 21, 24, § 47; Vulg. Ecclus. 19, 10.—Hence, Commŏrĭentes, the title of a comedy of Piautus, now lost, composed in imitation of the Sunapothnêskontes of Diphilus, Ter. Ad. prol. 7, and Prisc. p. 725 P. (acc. to Att. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 9, not genuine).—

Trop.:

duo venena commoriuntur,

i. e. their effects vanish together, Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 5.

com-mŏrĭor ( conm-), mortuus, 3, v. dep. n., to die with or at the same time with one (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.); constr. with cum, with the dat. or absol.

With cum:

in acie cum Arunte commortuus est (Brutus),

Liv. Epit. 2; Val. Max. 6, 8, 2.—

With dat.:

obviam ire et commori hostibus,

Sall. H. 1, 89 Dietsch:

hostibus suis morte suā,

Flor. 1, 18, 17; so,

tibi,

Sen. Ep. 77, 13:

simul tibi,

Vulg. Marc. 14, 31.—

Absol., Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32; 10, 21, 24, § 47; Vulg. Ecclus. 19, 10.—Hence, Commŏrĭentes, the title of a comedy of Piautus, now lost, composed in imitation of the Sunapothnêskontes of Diphilus, Ter. Ad. prol. 7, and Prisc. p. 725 P. (acc. to Att. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 9, not genuine).—

Trop.:

duo venena commoriuntur,

i. e. their effects vanish together, Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 5.

dē-mŏrĭor, mortuus, 3, v. dep. n., to die off, to die, depart, decease (i. e. from an office, out of a circle of associates, etc., cf. Fabri ad Liv. 23, 21, 7. In the class. per. only in the perf. or part. perf.; not found in Caes. and the Aug. poets).

Lit.:

paene sum fame demortuus,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 62:

cum esset ex veterum numero quidam senator demortuus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 50, § 124; cf.:

tantum hominum demortuum esse, ut, etc.,

Liv. 40, 19; 26, 23; Curt. 8, 10:

alii sunt alias, nostrique familiares fere demortui,

Cic. Att. 16, 11 fin.:

posse evenire, ut demoriantur mancipia,

Dig. 4, 4, 11, § 5.—So in pub. law lang.:

in demortui (magistratus) locum creatur, sufficitur, etc.,

Liv. 5, 31 Drak.; 23, 21 sq.; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 9; Suet. Caes. 41 al.—

Trop.

To depart, be gone:

potationes plurimae demortuae, Quot adeo cenae, quas deflevi, mortuae!

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 58:

demortua vocabula,

obsolete, Gell. 9, 2, 11.—

With acc. pers., to be dying for love of any one (cf. depereo):

ea demoritur te,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 23; 4, 2, 49.

ē-mŏrĭor, mortuus, 3 (old form of the inf. emoriri, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 42; but Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 124, moriri, Ritschl), v. dep. n., to die off, to die, depart, decease, v. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 183 sq. (freq. and class.).

Lit.:

emori me malim,

Plaut. Asin. 4, 2, 1; so id. Aul. 4, 5, 1; Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 63; Cic. Pis. 7, 15; id. Off. 3, 32, 114; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; id. Par. 3, 2, 24; Sall. C. 20, 9; id. J. 14 fin.; Ov. M. 3, 391; Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 26 sq.; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 49; Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 243; id. de Sen. 19, 74; 22, 80; Cat. 52, 1, 4.—Prov.: verba facit emortuo, he talks to the dead, i. e. in vain, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 18.—

Transf., of things, to become dead, to die:

membrum,

Cels. 5, 26, 34 fin.:

arbor,

Vitr. 2, 9; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 221:

carbo,

i. e. to go out, id. 16, 6, 8, § 23:

sterilis et emoriens terra,

desert, Curt. 4, 7, 10; cf.

vulva,

Vulg. Rom. 4, 19.—

Trop., to perish, pass away, cease:

quorum laus emori non potest,

Cic. Par. 2, 18:

vis,

Cels. 2, 10:

dicta (with evanescere),

Quint. 12, 10, 75: spes [p. 644] (opp. elucere), id. 1, 1, 2:

amor,

Ov. R. Am. 654:

auxilium,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 14.

immŏrĭor ( inm-), mortuus, 3, v. dep. n. [in-morior], to die in or upon any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).—Constr. with dat. and rarely in aliqua re.

Lit.:

illa sorori immoritur,

Ov. M. 6, 296:

hastae,

Val. Fl. 6, 570:

fortiter Euxinis aquis,

Ov. P. 3, 7, 40; cf.:

ipsis aquis,

id. M. 7, 572:

stellio immortuus vino,

Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 73:

apes immortuae in melle,

id. 29, 6, 38, § 128: non exigo, ut immoriaris legationi, immorare, Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 73:

tormentis,

Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 6:

saepe tormentis pro silentio rerum creditarum immortui,

Just. 44, 2, 3.—Of things:

manus immortua,

dying, withering, Luc. 3, 613:

aura superstes Immoritur velis,

i. e. dies away, Stat. Th. 1, 481.—

Trop.: immoritur studiis (dat. = macerat et enecat se opere rustico exercendo), he pines away, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85.

immŏrĭor ( inm-), mortuus, 3, v. dep. n. [in-morior], to die in or upon any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).—Constr. with dat. and rarely in aliqua re.

Lit.:

illa sorori immoritur,

Ov. M. 6, 296:

hastae,

Val. Fl. 6, 570:

fortiter Euxinis aquis,

Ov. P. 3, 7, 40; cf.:

ipsis aquis,

id. M. 7, 572:

stellio immortuus vino,

Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 73:

apes immortuae in melle,

id. 29, 6, 38, § 128: non exigo, ut immoriaris legationi, immorare, Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 73:

tormentis,

Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 6:

saepe tormentis pro silentio rerum creditarum immortui,

Just. 44, 2, 3.—Of things:

manus immortua,

dying, withering, Luc. 3, 613:

aura superstes Immoritur velis,

i. e. dies away, Stat. Th. 1, 481.—

Trop.: immoritur studiis (dat. = macerat et enecat se opere rustico exercendo), he pines away, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85.

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.