Dormio, dormis, dormîui, dormítÛ, pe. pro. dormîre. To slepe: to be a sleepe.Dormire sine omni cura.Plaut.Altum dormire.Iuuen.To be in a deepe sleepe.Ex lassitudine arctius dormire.Cic.To sleepe more soundely through wearines.Dormire in dextram aurem, fiducia alterius.Plin. iun.Vpon confidence of an other to be wythout feare.Dormire in vtranuis aurem. Ter. To sleepe soundely without feare or care.In medios dormire dies. Hor. To sleepe vntil it be noone.Dormijt ad horam tertiam. Cicero. He slept til three of the clock.Ad lucem dormire, Vide AD præpositionem.In lucem docmire. Hor. To sleept til it be day.Dormire totum mane. Mart. Noctes longas dormire Hor.Nox vna perpetua dormlenda. Catul. Wee muste sleepe one whole night.In virunuis dormire oculum.Plaut. Sensum habet cundem cum eo, dormire in vtranuis aurem. To sleepe securely.Non omnibus dormio.Cic.I am not ready at euery mans beck.Proficisci ad dormiendum.Cic.Ire dormitum. Hor, To goe to fleepe.
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dormĭo, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (futur. dormibo, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 100: dormibit, Cato R. R. 5, 5), v. n. [Sanscr. R. drā-, drayami, I sleep; Gr. darqa/nw], to sleep (cf.: dormito, sopio, sterto). I.Lit., sup.: Quin tu is dormitum? Ph. Dormio, ne occlamites, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 27; cf.: ire dormitum, id. Most. 3, 2, 4; 16; id. Ps. 2, 2, 70; Hor. S. 1, 5, 48; 1, 6, 119 et saep.; cf. also: dormitum dimittitur, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 73.—Pass. impers.: minimum dormitur in illo (lecto), Juv. 6, 269.—Prov.: non omnibus dormio, Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 1; cf.: proverbium videtur natum a Cipio quodam, qui Pararhenchon dictus est, quod simularet dormientem, quo impunitius uxor ejus moecharetur; ejus meminit Lucilius, Fest. p. 173, 5 sq. Müll.: in utramvis aurem dormire, v. auris, I.—2.Poet., in the pass., of time, to be slept through, spent in sleep: nox est perpetua una dormienda, Cat. 5, 6: tota mihi dormitur hiems, Mart. 13, 59.—B. Pregn., of the sleep of death: quid si ego illum tractim tangam ut dormiat?Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 157; cf. ib. 142, and the preceding passage from Cat. 5, 6; Inscr. Orell. 4760; 4808; Vulg. 1 Cor. 15, 6, 18 al.—3.Praegn.: dormire cum aliquo, of sexual intercourse, Juv. 6, 34; 376; Ov. H. 19, 57; Vulg. Gen. 19, 32 et saep.—II.Trop.A.To rest, be at ease, inactive: hoc vide ut dormiunt pessuli pessumi, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 67; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 59; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70; Prop. 3, 6, 34 (4, 5, 34 M.); Juv. 2, 37; Mart. 10, 62.— B.To be careless, unconcerned: uxorem duxit ... et inde filiam Suscepit jam unam, dum tu dormis, Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 18; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, and in eccl. Lat., to be careless in spiritual things, unawakened, Vulg. 1 Cor. 11, 30 al.