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to fail when on the verge of success

  • 1 naufragium

    naufrăgĭum, ii, n. [for navifragium, from navis-frango], a shipwreck.
    I.
    Lit.:

    multi naufragia fecerunt,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 1:

    naufragio perire,

    id. Deiot. 9, 25:

    naufragio interire,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 27:

    naufragio interceptus,

    Tac. A. 14, 3; Flor. 3, 10, 7:

    nullum conferri posse Naufragium velis ardentibus,

    Juv. 12, 22:

    pati,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 118.—Prov.:

    naufragia alicujus ex terrā intueri,

    to behold the ruin of others from a position of safety, Cic. Att. 2, 7, 4 (cf. Lucr. 2, 1):

    naufragium in portu facere,

    i. e. to fail when on the verge of success, Quint. Decl. 12, 23.—
    B.
    Poet., transf.
    1.
    A storm:

    naufragiis magnis multisque coörtis,

    Lucr. 2, 552.—
    2.
    The remains of a shipwreck, a wreck:

    Eurus Naufragium spargens operit freta,

    Sil. 10, 323.—
    II.
    Trop., shipwreck, ruin, loss, destruction:

    naufragium fortunarum,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 25:

    luculenti patrimonii,

    id. Phil. 12, 8, 19:

    rei familiaris,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 5:

    cum Gallica gens per Italiam naufragia sua latius traheret,

    defeats, Flor. 1, 13, 19: tabula ex naufragio, lit. a plank on which a shipwrecked person saves himself; hence, a means of deliverance, a solace, Cic. Att. 4, 18, 3.—
    B.
    Transf., the shattered remains, a wreck:

    naufragia Caesaris amicorum,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 2, 3: colligere naufragium rei publicae. id. Sest. 6, 15:

    credo mollia naufragiis litora posse dari,

    Ov. P. 1, 2, 62; 2, 9, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > naufragium

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