Despero, despéras, pen. prod. desperâre. To despaire: to haue no hope.Desperare & confidere, contraria.Cic.Desperare & diffidere rebus suis.Cic.Ab aliquo desperare.Cicer.To haue no hope of aide at ones hand.Bene desperare salutem.Ouid.To be in great despaire of.Desperare de regno. Cæsar. To haue no hope to attaine.De Republica.Cic.To haue no hope that the common weale shall recouer againe.De sc. Plancus Ciceroni. Sibi. Cæsar. To haue no hope to saue himselfe.Suis fortunis. Cæsar. To haue no hope to saue his goodes.Desperare fogam. Cæsar. To haue no hope to flie.Honores.Cic.To haue no hope to come to honour.Nil desperandum. Hor. We must not despaire in any point.Quod est optimum non est desperandum.Cic.Oppido desperare.Cic.To haue no hope to be able to defend the towne.Desperare pacem.Cic.Reditum in aliquem locum.Cicer.To haue no hope to returne to.Desperare saluti. Ci. To despaire of his life and good estate.Desperare salutem alicuius Cic. Idem. Vitamalicuius.Cic.To despaire of hys life.Temerè desperare.Cic. Desperare, cum infinitiuo.Cicer. Non equidem planè despero ista esse vera. I do not despaire that these thinges be true. Desperari, Passiuè.Cic. Siue restituimur, siue desperamur. Desperabantur promissi prælia Martis. Mart. Turpiter desperatur quicquid fieri potest. Quin. It is shame to despaire of any thing that may be done.
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dē-spēro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to be hopeless; to have no hope of, to despair of, to give up (freq. and class.).—Constr. most freq. with de, the acc., or acc. and inf.; less freq. with the dat. or absol.(a). With de (in Cic. rarely): de sua virtute aut de ipsius diligentia, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 4: de pugna, id. ib. 1, 40, 8: de officio imperatoris, id. ib. 1, 40, 10,: de expugnatione, id. ib. 7, 36: de salute, id. ib. 7, 85, 3: de republica, Cic. Att. 8, 11, D, 6: de summa rerum, Liv. 26, 41: de se, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2; 9, 15, 5; Lact. 6, 24, 1; Sen. Tranq. An. 5, 2.—(b). With acc. (in Caes. only in the part. perf.): honores, Cic. Cat. 2, 9: honorem, id. Mur. 21, 43: rempublicam, id. Fam. 12, 14, 3: pacem, id. Att. 8, 15, 3: voluntariam deditionem, Liv. 23, 14: membra invicti Glyconis, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 30; Sen. Ep. 29, 3; 104, 12.—In the pass.: sive restituimur, sive desperamur, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 7; Quint. 1, 10, 8: hujus salus desperanda est, Cic. Lael. 24, 90; cf.: nil desperandum Teucro duce, Hor. Od. 1, 7, 27: desperatis nostris rebus, Caes. B. G. 2, 24, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 26, 5: desperata salute, id. ib. 3, 3, 3 et saep.: desperato improviso tumultu, Liv. 10, 14 et saep.— Middle: desperatis hominibus, who gave themselves up, i. e. were desperately resolved, desperate, Caes. B. G. 7, 3.—(g). With acc. and inf.: ego non despero fore aliquem aliquando, qui, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Div. 2, 21, 48; Quint. 5, 12, 3; Hor. A. P. 150; Ov. M. 9, 724 et saep.—(d). With dat.: saluti, Cic. Clu. 25, 68: oppido, id. Pis. 34 fin.: rebus tuis, id. ib. 36, 89: suis fortunis, Caes. B. G. 3, 12, 3: sibi, id. ib. 7, 50, 4; Cic. Mur. 21 fin.: saluti suae, id. Clu. 25.—(e) Absol.: sive habes aliquam spem de republica sive desperas, Cic. Fam. 2, 5; id. Off. 1, 21 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 10; 12 prooem. 2; Ov. M. 10, 371 et saep.: spem habere a tribuno plebis, a senatu desperasse, Cic. Pis. 6.—Hence, 1. dēspēranter, adv., hopelessly, despairingly: loqui secum, Cic. Att. 14, 18, 3.—2. dēspērātus, a, um, P. a., given up, despaired of, irremediable, desperate (most freq. in Cic.): exercitum collectum ex senibus desperatis, Cic. Cat. 2, 3: remedium aegrotae ac prope desperatae reipublicae, id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70; cf.: reipublicae morbi, id. Sull. 27 fin.: collegium, id. Leg. 3, 10, 24: desperatas pecunias exigere, id. Mur. 20 fin. et saep.: desperatos vocant, quia corpori suo minime parcunt (of the Christians), Lact. 5, 9, 12. —Prov.: desperatis Hippocrates vetat adhibere medicinam, Cic. Att. 16, 15, 5.— Comp.: haec nunc multo desperatiora, Cic. Fam. 7, 22.—Sup.: perfugium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41 fin.: spes, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B, 2.— Adv., dēspērātē, desperately: non desperate sollicitus, Aug. Ep. ad Celer. 237.