That which brings death

mors, tis, f. [root mor, v. morior] (dat. morte, Varr. ap. Gell. 24), death in every form, natural or violent (syn.: letum, nex).

Lit.:

omnium rerum mors est extremum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79:

mortem sibi consciscere,

to kill one's self, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, § 129:

obire,

to die, id. Phil. 5, 17, 48;

Plaut Aul. prol. 15: nam necessest me... cras mortem exequi,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

certae occumbere morti,

to submit to, Verg. A. 2, 62:

aliquem ad mortem dare,

to put to death, kill, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 177:

morti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 197:

aliquem morte multare,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; so,

per vim,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 14:

morte multatus,

id. Tusc. 1, 40, 97; Tac. A. 6, 9; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Lact. 2, 9, 24:

morte punire,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 12; Tac. A. 4, 44; 11, 18:

mortis poena,

Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

morti addici,

id. Off. 3, 10, 45:

omne humanum genus morte damnatum est,

Sen. Ep. 71, 15:

Antonius civium suorum vitae sedebat mortisque arbiter,

Sen. Polyb. 16, 2:

vitae et mortis habere potestatem,

Vulg. Sap. 16, 13:

illata per scelus,

assassination, Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

ad mortem se offerre pro patriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 32: afferre, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare aliquem usque ad mortem,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9:

morte cadere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 15: morte acerbissimā affici, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare,

id. de Or. 1, 43, 100:

ad mortem duci,

id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100:

cui legatio ipsa morti fuisset,

brought death, id. Phil. 9, 1, 3:

imperfecta,

blindness, Stat. Th. 11, 582: morte suā mori, to die a natural death:

bella res est, mori suā morte,

Sen. Ep. 69, 6:

mors suprema,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 173; Sil. 5, 416: mortis fine, Boëth. Consol. 2, 7: quae rapit ultima mors est, Lucil. ap. Sen. Ep. 24, 20: proximus morti = moriens, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8; App. M. 1, 72; cf.:

morti vicinus,

Aug. Serm. 306, 10; Hier. in Joel, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

cui, mors cum appropinquet,

Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

cujus aetati mors propior erat,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 9:

adpropinquante morte,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64 sq.:

ut prorogetur tibi dies mortis,

Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6:

circa mortis diem,

id. Ep. 27, 2:

mansurum est vitium usque ad diem mortis,

Cels. 7, 7, 15 init. — Poet.:

mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula,

Juv. 10, 173. —In plur.:

mortes, when several persons are spoken of: praeclarae mortes sunt imperatoriae,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; so Hor. S. 1, 3, 108:

meorum,

Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 1:

perdere mortes,

to throw away lives, to die in vain, Stat. Th. 9, 58:

hinc subitae mortes,

Juv. 1, 144.—Also of different forms or modes of death:

omnīs per mortīs,

Verg. A. 10, 854; cf.:

omni imagine mortium,

Tac. H. 3, 28; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2.—Rarely of an abstract thing:

fere rerum omnium oblivio morsque memoriae,

death, total loss, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.—

Personified.

Mors, a goddess, the daughter of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A. 11, 197; Hyg. Fab. praef.—

(Eccl. Lat.) = eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum, Vulg. Heb. 2, 14; id. Isa. 28, 15; cf.:

ero mors tua, o mors,

id. Hos. 13, 14; id. Apoc. 6, 8.—

Transf.

A dead body, corpse (mostly poet.): morte campos contegi, with corpses, Att. ap. Non. 110, 31:

mortem ejus (Clodii) lacerari,

body, corpse, Cic. Mil. 32, 86; Cat. 64, 362; Prop. 3, 5, 22:

vitis, quam juxta hominis mors laqueo pependerit,

Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119; Stat. Th. 1, 768.—Hence, jestingly, of an old man:

odiosum est mortem amplexari,

a corpse, a skeleton, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—

Like phonos, the blood shed by murder:

ensem multā morte recepit,

Verg. A. 9, 348.—

That which brings death (of missiles), a deadly weapon ( poet.):

mille cavet lapsas circum cava tempora mortes,

Stat. Th. 6, 792; Luc. 7, 517:

per pectora saevas Exceptat mortes,

Sil. 9, 369.—Of a sentence or threat of death:

ut auferat a me mortem istam,

Vulg. Ex. 10, 17;

of terrible pangs and anxieties: contritiones mortis,

id. 2 Reg. 22, 5:

dolores mortis,

id. Psa. 18, 4; 116, 3;

of a cruel and murderous officer: aderat mors terrorque sociorum et civium lictor Sestius,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.):

mors secunda,

the second death, future punishment, Vulg. Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14:

mors alone,

id. 1 Joh. 5, 16; also spiritual death, that of a soul under the dominion of sin:

stimulus mortis peccatum est,

id. 1 Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et saep.; cf. Lact. 7, 10 fin.

mors, tis, f. [root mor, v. morior] (dat. morte, Varr. ap. Gell. 24), death in every form, natural or violent (syn.: letum, nex).

Lit.:

omnium rerum mors est extremum,

Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1:

mors ultima linea rerum est,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79:

mortem sibi consciscere,

to kill one's self, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, § 129:

obire,

to die, id. Phil. 5, 17, 48;

Plaut Aul. prol. 15: nam necessest me... cras mortem exequi,

id. Ps. 4, 2, 38:

certae occumbere morti,

to submit to, Verg. A. 2, 62:

aliquem ad mortem dare,

to put to death, kill, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 177:

morti,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 197:

aliquem morte multare,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; so,

per vim,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 14:

morte multatus,

id. Tusc. 1, 40, 97; Tac. A. 6, 9; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Lact. 2, 9, 24:

morte punire,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 12; Tac. A. 4, 44; 11, 18:

mortis poena,

Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7:

morti addici,

id. Off. 3, 10, 45:

omne humanum genus morte damnatum est,

Sen. Ep. 71, 15:

Antonius civium suorum vitae sedebat mortisque arbiter,

Sen. Polyb. 16, 2:

vitae et mortis habere potestatem,

Vulg. Sap. 16, 13:

illata per scelus,

assassination, Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

ad mortem se offerre pro patriā,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 32: afferre, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare aliquem usque ad mortem,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9:

morte cadere,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 15: morte acerbissimā affici, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2:

multare,

id. de Or. 1, 43, 100:

ad mortem duci,

id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100:

cui legatio ipsa morti fuisset,

brought death, id. Phil. 9, 1, 3:

imperfecta,

blindness, Stat. Th. 11, 582: morte suā mori, to die a natural death:

bella res est, mori suā morte,

Sen. Ep. 69, 6:

mors suprema,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 173; Sil. 5, 416: mortis fine, Boëth. Consol. 2, 7: quae rapit ultima mors est, Lucil. ap. Sen. Ep. 24, 20: proximus morti = moriens, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8; App. M. 1, 72; cf.:

morti vicinus,

Aug. Serm. 306, 10; Hier. in Joel, 1, 13 al.; cf.:

cui, mors cum appropinquet,

Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

cujus aetati mors propior erat,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 9:

adpropinquante morte,

Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64 sq.:

ut prorogetur tibi dies mortis,

Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6:

circa mortis diem,

id. Ep. 27, 2:

mansurum est vitium usque ad diem mortis,

Cels. 7, 7, 15 init. — Poet.:

mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula,

Juv. 10, 173. —In plur.:

mortes, when several persons are spoken of: praeclarae mortes sunt imperatoriae,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; so Hor. S. 1, 3, 108:

meorum,

Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 1:

perdere mortes,

to throw away lives, to die in vain, Stat. Th. 9, 58:

hinc subitae mortes,

Juv. 1, 144.—Also of different forms or modes of death:

omnīs per mortīs,

Verg. A. 10, 854; cf.:

omni imagine mortium,

Tac. H. 3, 28; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2.—Rarely of an abstract thing:

fere rerum omnium oblivio morsque memoriae,

death, total loss, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 142.—

Personified.

Mors, a goddess, the daughter of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A. 11, 197; Hyg. Fab. praef.—

(Eccl. Lat.) = eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum, Vulg. Heb. 2, 14; id. Isa. 28, 15; cf.:

ero mors tua, o mors,

id. Hos. 13, 14; id. Apoc. 6, 8.—

Transf.

A dead body, corpse (mostly poet.): morte campos contegi, with corpses, Att. ap. Non. 110, 31:

mortem ejus (Clodii) lacerari,

body, corpse, Cic. Mil. 32, 86; Cat. 64, 362; Prop. 3, 5, 22:

vitis, quam juxta hominis mors laqueo pependerit,

Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119; Stat. Th. 1, 768.—Hence, jestingly, of an old man:

odiosum est mortem amplexari,

a corpse, a skeleton, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—

Like phonos, the blood shed by murder:

ensem multā morte recepit,

Verg. A. 9, 348.—

That which brings death (of missiles), a deadly weapon ( poet.):

mille cavet lapsas circum cava tempora mortes,

Stat. Th. 6, 792; Luc. 7, 517:

per pectora saevas Exceptat mortes,

Sil. 9, 369.—Of a sentence or threat of death:

ut auferat a me mortem istam,

Vulg. Ex. 10, 17;

of terrible pangs and anxieties: contritiones mortis,

id. 2 Reg. 22, 5:

dolores mortis,

id. Psa. 18, 4; 116, 3;

of a cruel and murderous officer: aderat mors terrorque sociorum et civium lictor Sestius,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.):

mors secunda,

the second death, future punishment, Vulg. Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14:

mors alone,

id. 1 Joh. 5, 16; also spiritual death, that of a soul under the dominion of sin:

stimulus mortis peccatum est,

id. 1 Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et saep.; cf. Lact. 7, 10 fin.

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fātum, i ( masc. fatus malus meus, Petr. 42, 77), n. [for II. A.], that which is said, an utterance. —Hence,

Prop., a prophetic declaration, oracle, prediction (rare but class.): neque me Apollo fatis fandis dementem invitam ciet, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 80 Vahl.):

Lentulum sibi confirmasse ex fatis Sibyllinis haruspicumque responsis se, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 3, 4, 9:

eo fatis quae Veientes scripta haberent,

id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

fatis, ominibus oraculisque portendere,

Liv. 29, 10 fin. Drak. N. cr.:

Siculisne resideret arvis Oblitus factorum,

Verg. A. 5, 703.—

Transf.

In gen., that which is ordained, desting, fate; the heimarmenê or moira of the Greeks (syn.:

fortuna, fors, sors, casus): nec ii, qui dicunt immutabilia esse, quae futura sint nec posse verum futurum convertere in falsum, fati necessitatem confirmant, sed verborum vim interpretantur. At qui introducunt causarum seriem sempiternam, ii mentem hominis voluntate libera spoliatam necessitate fati devinciunt,

Cic. Fat. 9, 20 sq.; hence the philosophic use of the word to denote the eternal, immutable law of nature: fieri omnia fato, ratio cogit fateri. Fatum autem id appello, quod Graeci heimarmenên, id est ordinem seriemque causarum, cum causa causae nexa rem ex se gignat, id. Div. 1, 55, 125 sq.; cf.:

cum vos fato fieri dicatis omnia, quod autem semper ex omni aeternitate verum fuerit, id esse fatum,

id. N. D. 3, 6, 14; and: cum duae sententiae fuissent veterum philosophorum, una eorum, qui censerent omnia ita fato fieri, ut id fatum vim necessitatis afferret;

in qua sententia Democritus, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Aristoteles fuit: altera eorum, quibus viderentur sine ullo fato esse animorum motus voluntarii,

id. Fat. 17, 39; cf.

also: ex hoc genere causarum ex aeternitate pendentium fatum a Stoicis nectitur,

id. Top. 15, 59; and:

anile sane et plenum superstitionis fati nomen ipsum,

id. Div. 2, 7, 19:

si Daphitae fatum fuit ex equo cadere,

id. Fat. 3, 5; cf. id. ib. 12, 28: cf.:

neque si fatum fuerat, effugisset,

id. Div. 2, 8, 20:

ut praedici posset, quid cuique eventurum et quo quisque fato natus esset,

id. ib. 1, 1, 2;

quonam meo fato fieri dicam, ut, etc.,

id. Phil. 2, 1, 1: qua quidem in re singulari sum fato, I experience a remarkable fate, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 1:

si quid mihi humanitus accidisset multa autem impendere videntur praeter naturam etiam praeterque fatum,

i. e. beyond the natural and appointed course of events, id. Phil. 1, 4, 10:

quasi debita sibi fato dominatione,

Suet. Aug. 19:

persuasio, cuncta fato agi,

id. Tib. 69:

nisi dii immortales omni ratione placati suo numine prope fata ipsa flexissent,

Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19:

orte Saturno, tibi cura magni Caesaris fatis data,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 51:

quo (Caesare) nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere bonique divi,

id. ib. 4, 2, 38; id. Carm. Sec. 28:

ut caneret fera Nereus Fata,

id. C. 1, 15, 5; so,

acerba,

id. Epod. 7, 17:

triste,

id. S. 1, 9, 29:

caeca,

id. C. 2, 13, 16:

plebeium in circo positum est fatum,

the fate of the vulgar, Juv. 6, 588:

fata regunt homines,

id. 9, 32; 12, 63.—With ut:

qui hoc fato natus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 11, 30:

fuit hoc sive meum sive rei publicae fatum, ut, etc.,

id. Balb. 26, 58.—With ne: eo [p. 730] fato se in iis terris collocatam esse arbitratur, ne, etc., Cic. Font. 16, 35.—

Esp.

Of the will or determination of the gods:

heu stirpem invisam et fatis contraria nostris Fata Phrygum,

Verg. A. 7, 293; 7, 50; cf. Non. 455, 25.—And also of that which determines the fate of a person or thing: Ilio tria fuisse audivi fata, quae illi forent exitio: signum ex arce si perisset;

alterum, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 29; so,

Herculis sagittae, quae fatum Trojae fuere,

Just. 20, 1 fin. —Prov.:

fata viam invenient,

Verg. A. 3, 395; 10, 113.— Fāta, ōrum, n., personified as deities, the Fates, Prop. 4, 7, 51; Stat. Th. 8, 26; id. S. 5, 1, 259; Inscr. Orell. 1771 sq.—

a.. Bad fortune, ill fate, calamity, mishap:

dictum facete et contumeliose in Metellos antiquum Naevii est: Fato Metelli Romae fiunt consules,

Pseudo Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 29 (p. 140 ed. Orell.);

and, alluding to this verse: hoc Verrem dicere aiebant, te (sc. Metellum) non fato, ut ceteros ex vestra familia, sed opera sua consulem factum,

id. ib. 10, 29:

quibus ego confido impendere fatum aliquod et poenas jamdiu improbitati, nequitiae... debitas instare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

exitii ac fati dies,

id. ib. 3, 7, 17:

abditi in tabernaculis aut suum fatum querebantur aut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf. Caes. B. C. 2, 6, 1:

quod si jam (quod dii omen avertant) fatum extremum rei publicae venit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35:

in illo paene fato rei publicae,

id. Dom. 57, 145.— So,

Esp. freq. of death:

sic Hortensii vox exstincta fato suo est, nostra publico,

id. Brut. 96, 328; cf.:

nolite hunc maturius exstingui vulnere vestro quam suo fato,

id. Cael. 32, 79; cf.:

omen fati,

id. Phil. 9, 4, 6; and:

quia nec fato merita nec morte peribat,

Verg. A. 4, 696: ferro, non fato moerus Argivum (i. e. Achilles) occidit, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 10 Spald.:

perfunctos jam fato = mortuos,

Liv. 9, 1, 6;

qui fato sunt functi,

Quint. 3, 7, 10:

fato cedere,

Liv. 26, 13: fato concessit, Pl. Pan. 11, 3; for which: concedere in fatum, Modestin. Dig. 34, 3, 20:

fato obiit,

died a natural death, Tac. A. 6, 10:

fato fungi,

id. ib. 14, 12 fin.:

ille (uxorem) functam fato respondet,

id. ib. 11, 3:

si me praeceperit fatum,

Curt. 9, 6; Quint. 6, 2, 33.—In this sense sometimes in the plur.:

jamdudum peccas, si mea fata petis,

Ov. H. 19, 118;

Minotauri,

Mel. 2, 7:

mea fata,

my ashes, Prop. 1, 17, 11:

sentiet vivus eam, quae post fata praestari magis solet, venerationem,

Quint. 12, 17, 7:

si me fata intercepissent,

id. 6 praef. 1; cf.: (mater) acerbissimis rapta fatis, id. § 4; cf. the shades or spirits of the dead:

cum fato jacentis,

Mel. 2, 2.—

Concr., one who brings calamity, a plague:

duo illa rei publicae paene fata, Gabinium et Pisonem,

Cic. Sest. 43, 93.

fātum, i ( masc. fatus malus meus, Petr. 42, 77), n. [for II. A.], that which is said, an utterance. —Hence,

Prop., a prophetic declaration, oracle, prediction (rare but class.): neque me Apollo fatis fandis dementem invitam ciet, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 80 Vahl.):

Lentulum sibi confirmasse ex fatis Sibyllinis haruspicumque responsis se, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 3, 4, 9:

eo fatis quae Veientes scripta haberent,

id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

fatis, ominibus oraculisque portendere,

Liv. 29, 10 fin. Drak. N. cr.:

Siculisne resideret arvis Oblitus factorum,

Verg. A. 5, 703.—

Transf.

In gen., that which is ordained, desting, fate; the heimarmenê or moira of the Greeks (syn.:

fortuna, fors, sors, casus): nec ii, qui dicunt immutabilia esse, quae futura sint nec posse verum futurum convertere in falsum, fati necessitatem confirmant, sed verborum vim interpretantur. At qui introducunt causarum seriem sempiternam, ii mentem hominis voluntate libera spoliatam necessitate fati devinciunt,

Cic. Fat. 9, 20 sq.; hence the philosophic use of the word to denote the eternal, immutable law of nature: fieri omnia fato, ratio cogit fateri. Fatum autem id appello, quod Graeci heimarmenên, id est ordinem seriemque causarum, cum causa causae nexa rem ex se gignat, id. Div. 1, 55, 125 sq.; cf.:

cum vos fato fieri dicatis omnia, quod autem semper ex omni aeternitate verum fuerit, id esse fatum,

id. N. D. 3, 6, 14; and: cum duae sententiae fuissent veterum philosophorum, una eorum, qui censerent omnia ita fato fieri, ut id fatum vim necessitatis afferret;

in qua sententia Democritus, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Aristoteles fuit: altera eorum, quibus viderentur sine ullo fato esse animorum motus voluntarii,

id. Fat. 17, 39; cf.

also: ex hoc genere causarum ex aeternitate pendentium fatum a Stoicis nectitur,

id. Top. 15, 59; and:

anile sane et plenum superstitionis fati nomen ipsum,

id. Div. 2, 7, 19:

si Daphitae fatum fuit ex equo cadere,

id. Fat. 3, 5; cf. id. ib. 12, 28: cf.:

neque si fatum fuerat, effugisset,

id. Div. 2, 8, 20:

ut praedici posset, quid cuique eventurum et quo quisque fato natus esset,

id. ib. 1, 1, 2;

quonam meo fato fieri dicam, ut, etc.,

id. Phil. 2, 1, 1: qua quidem in re singulari sum fato, I experience a remarkable fate, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 1:

si quid mihi humanitus accidisset multa autem impendere videntur praeter naturam etiam praeterque fatum,

i. e. beyond the natural and appointed course of events, id. Phil. 1, 4, 10:

quasi debita sibi fato dominatione,

Suet. Aug. 19:

persuasio, cuncta fato agi,

id. Tib. 69:

nisi dii immortales omni ratione placati suo numine prope fata ipsa flexissent,

Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19:

orte Saturno, tibi cura magni Caesaris fatis data,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 51:

quo (Caesare) nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere bonique divi,

id. ib. 4, 2, 38; id. Carm. Sec. 28:

ut caneret fera Nereus Fata,

id. C. 1, 15, 5; so,

acerba,

id. Epod. 7, 17:

triste,

id. S. 1, 9, 29:

caeca,

id. C. 2, 13, 16:

plebeium in circo positum est fatum,

the fate of the vulgar, Juv. 6, 588:

fata regunt homines,

id. 9, 32; 12, 63.—With ut:

qui hoc fato natus est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 11, 30:

fuit hoc sive meum sive rei publicae fatum, ut, etc.,

id. Balb. 26, 58.—With ne: eo [p. 730] fato se in iis terris collocatam esse arbitratur, ne, etc., Cic. Font. 16, 35.—

Esp.

Of the will or determination of the gods:

heu stirpem invisam et fatis contraria nostris Fata Phrygum,

Verg. A. 7, 293; 7, 50; cf. Non. 455, 25.—And also of that which determines the fate of a person or thing: Ilio tria fuisse audivi fata, quae illi forent exitio: signum ex arce si perisset;

alterum, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 29; so,

Herculis sagittae, quae fatum Trojae fuere,

Just. 20, 1 fin. —Prov.:

fata viam invenient,

Verg. A. 3, 395; 10, 113.— Fāta, ōrum, n., personified as deities, the Fates, Prop. 4, 7, 51; Stat. Th. 8, 26; id. S. 5, 1, 259; Inscr. Orell. 1771 sq.—

a.. Bad fortune, ill fate, calamity, mishap:

dictum facete et contumeliose in Metellos antiquum Naevii est: Fato Metelli Romae fiunt consules,

Pseudo Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 29 (p. 140 ed. Orell.);

and, alluding to this verse: hoc Verrem dicere aiebant, te (sc. Metellum) non fato, ut ceteros ex vestra familia, sed opera sua consulem factum,

id. ib. 10, 29:

quibus ego confido impendere fatum aliquod et poenas jamdiu improbitati, nequitiae... debitas instare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

exitii ac fati dies,

id. ib. 3, 7, 17:

abditi in tabernaculis aut suum fatum querebantur aut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf. Caes. B. C. 2, 6, 1:

quod si jam (quod dii omen avertant) fatum extremum rei publicae venit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35:

in illo paene fato rei publicae,

id. Dom. 57, 145.— So,

Esp. freq. of death:

sic Hortensii vox exstincta fato suo est, nostra publico,

id. Brut. 96, 328; cf.:

nolite hunc maturius exstingui vulnere vestro quam suo fato,

id. Cael. 32, 79; cf.:

omen fati,

id. Phil. 9, 4, 6; and:

quia nec fato merita nec morte peribat,

Verg. A. 4, 696: ferro, non fato moerus Argivum (i. e. Achilles) occidit, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 10 Spald.:

perfunctos jam fato = mortuos,

Liv. 9, 1, 6;

qui fato sunt functi,

Quint. 3, 7, 10:

fato cedere,

Liv. 26, 13: fato concessit, Pl. Pan. 11, 3; for which: concedere in fatum, Modestin. Dig. 34, 3, 20:

fato obiit,

died a natural death, Tac. A. 6, 10:

fato fungi,

id. ib. 14, 12 fin.:

ille (uxorem) functam fato respondet,

id. ib. 11, 3:

si me praeceperit fatum,

Curt. 9, 6; Quint. 6, 2, 33.—In this sense sometimes in the plur.:

jamdudum peccas, si mea fata petis,

Ov. H. 19, 118;

Minotauri,

Mel. 2, 7:

mea fata,

my ashes, Prop. 1, 17, 11:

sentiet vivus eam, quae post fata praestari magis solet, venerationem,

Quint. 12, 17, 7:

si me fata intercepissent,

id. 6 praef. 1; cf.: (mater) acerbissimis rapta fatis, id. § 4; cf. the shades or spirits of the dead:

cum fato jacentis,

Mel. 2, 2.—

Concr., one who brings calamity, a plague:

duo illa rei publicae paene fata, Gabinium et Pisonem,

Cic. Sest. 43, 93.