membra+lapidibus+c

cŏ-ŏpĕrĭo, rŭi, rtum, 4 (contr. form coperiunt, Lucr. 6, 491; cf. Lachm. ap. Lucr. 2, p. 134 sq.), v. a., to cover wholly, to cover, cover over, overwhelm (class.; most freq. in part. perf.).

Lit.

Verb finit.:

Cyrsilum quendam lapidibus cooperuerunt,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 48; so Liv. 4, 50, 5:

tempestas atque tenebrae maria ac terras,

Lucr. 6, 491; 5, 342:

radices,

Plin. 17, 26, 39, § 246:

se multā fronde (vitis),

Col. 5, 6, 36.—

Part. perf.:

coöperta membra pannis,

Lucr. 6, 1269; so Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66:

corpus telis,

Liv. 8, 10, 10:

Pomptinum omne velut nubibus locustarum,

id. 42, 2, 5; Plin. 19, 7, 36, § 122; Tac. A. 13, 41:

iste lapidibus in foro,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119. —

Trop.: fenoribus coöpertus est, overwhelmed, buried in, Cato and Sall. ap. Gell. 2, 17, 7; in part.:

tot, tantis, tam nefariis sceleribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 9:

flagitiis atque facinoribus,

Sall. C. 23, 1:

miseriis,

id. J. 14, 11: famosis versibus, * Hor. S. 2, 1, 68; cf.:

onerare aliquem maledictis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 122.

dēbĭlĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [debilis], to lame, cripple, maim; to debilitate, unnerve, disable, weaken (freq. and class.).

Lit.

Of personal objects:

gladiatores, qui debilitati fuerint,

Gai. Inst. 3, § 146:

contusi ac debilitati inter saxa rupesque,

Liv. 21, 40:

corpore debilitantur (saucii),

Cic. Caecin. 15, 42:

casu debilitatus,

Tac. A. 4, 63: lapsu debilitatus, * Suet. Aug. 43 (cf. shortly after, qui et ipse crus fregerat): qui filium debilitavit, ut inhabilis militiae sit, Dig. 49, 16, 4, § 12; Ov. M. 13, 112:

natantium manus lacerabant, donec debilitati, etc.,

Curt. 4, 3, 5.—

Of inanimate objects:

membra, quae debilitavit lapidibus, fustibus,

Cic. Fl. 30, 73:

vim ferro ac viribus,

id. Marc. 3: lingua Debilitata malis, * Lucr. 6, 1150:

opes adversariorum debilitatae,

Nep. Ages. 5, 2:

cibum etiam saepe subtrahunt, ut fame debilitetur eculeorum nimis effrenata vis,

Cic. Hortens. Frag. 78 Bait. (Non., p. 105, 7).— Poet.: (hiems) quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum, i. e. breaks its waves ( = collidit), Hor. Od. 1, 11, 5.

Trop.

Of personal objects: quo metu debilitaret nostros, Varr. ap. Non. 163, 30:

simulac me fractum ac debilitatum metu viderit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121; cf.:

hunc cum afflictum, debilitatum, maerentem, viderem,

id. ib. 2, 47, 195:

recitatis literis debilitatus atque abjectus, conscientia convictus, repente conticuit,

disheartened, id. Cat. 3, 5, 10:

victi debilitantur animosque demittunt,

id. Fin. 5, 15, 42:

sin aestivorum timor te debilitat,

id. Fam. 7, 14:

quosdam continet metus, quosdam debilitat,

Quint. 1, 3, 6 et saep.: debilitati a jure cognoscendo, i. e. dispirited, discouraged ( = deterriti), Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 142 (cf. shortly before, a discendo deterrent).—

Of inanimate objects:

membrum reip. fractum debilitatumque,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3:

animos,

id. Lael. 7; so Nep. Dat. 6:

animum luctu, metu,

Cic. Planc. 42, 103: nimis effrenatam vim fame, id. fragm. ap. Non. 105, 11; cf.: vires animi (senectus), * Verg. A. 9, 611:

fortitudinem, magnitudinem animi, patientiam (dolor),

Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 76:

veritatem multis incommodis,

id. Quint. 1, 4:

spem meam,

id. Att. 5, 4 et saep.:

versus,

id. de Or. 3, 50:

debilitatur ac frangitur eloquentia,

Tac. Or. 39.