broken talk

in-fringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [infrango], to break off, to break, bruise, crack.

Lit.:

infractis omnibus hastis,

Liv. 40, 40, 7:

ut si quis violas riguove papavera in horto Liliaque infringat,

Ov. M. 10, 191:

genibusque tumens infringitur unda,

Val. Fl. 5, 412: manus, to snap or crack one ' s fingers, Petr. 17:

articulos,

Quint. 11, 3, 158: latus liminibus, to bruise one ' s side by lying on the threshold, Hor. Epod. 11, 22: infractus remus, appearing broken, in consequence of the refraction of the rays in the water, Cic. Ac. 2, 25; cf.:

infracti radii resiliunt,

Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103:

ossa infracta extrahere,

id. 23, 7, 63, § 119.—

Transf., to strike one thing against another: digitos citharae, to strike or play upon the lute, Stat. Ach. 1, 575:

alicui colaphum,

to give one a box on the ear, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46; Plin. 8, 36, 54, § 130:

linguam (metu),

to stammer, Lucr. 3, 155.—

Trop., to break, check, weaken, lessen, diminish, mitigate, assuage:

ut primus incursus et vis militum infringeretur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92:

conatus adversariorum,

id. ib. 2, 21:

florem dignitatis,

Cic. Balb. 6, 15:

militum gloriam,

id. Mil. 2, 5:

animos hostium,

Liv. 38, 16:

spem,

Cic. Or. 2, 6:

tribunatum alicujus,

id. de Or. 1, 7, 24:

vehementius esse quiddam suspicor, quod te infringat,

id. Att. 7, 2, 2:

continuam laudem humanitatis,

Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3:

res Samnitium,

Liv. 8, 39, 10:

difficultatem,

to overcome, Col. 2, 4, 10:

jus consulis,

Dig. 34, 9, 5 fin.:

fortia facta suis modis,

to weaken, Ov. Tr. 2, 412:

deos precatu,

to appease by entreaties, Stat. Ach. 1, 144:

infringitur ille quasi verborum ambitus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

infringendis concidendisque numeris,

id. Or. 69, 230:

vocem de industria,

purposely to make plaintive, Sen. Contr. 3, 19.—

To destroy, make void, break:

quoniam haec gloriatio non infringetur in me,

Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 10:

legem,

ib. 1 Macc. 1, 66. — Hence, infractus, a, um, P. a., broken, bent.

Lit.:

mares caprarum longis auribus infractisque probant,

Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 202.—

Trop., broken, exhausted, weakened, subdued.

In gen.:

infractos animos gerere,

Liv. 7, 31, 6:

nihil infractus Appii animus,

id. 2, 59, 4:

oratio submissa et infracta,

id. 38, 14:

infractae ad proelia vires,

Verg. A. 9, 499:

veritas,

falsified, Tac. H. 1, 1:

fides metu infracta,

shaken, id. ib. 3, 42:

tributa,

diminished, id. ib. 4, 57:

potentia matris,

id. A. 13, 12:

fama,

injured reputation, Verg. A. 7, 332; Tac. H. 2, 22:

Latini,

broken, Verg. A. 12, 1.—

Diluted:

fel aqua infractum,

Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 186.—

In partic., of speech, broken off:

infracta et amputata loqui,

broken, unconnected, Cic. Or. 51, 170:

infracta loquela,

broken talk, baby - talk, Lucr. 5, 230:

cum vocem ejus (delicati) infractam videret,

effeminate, Gell. 3, 5, 2:

vocibus delinitus infractis,

Arn. 4, 141.

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.