Occumbo, occumbis, occúbi, occúbitum, pen. cor. occúmbere. To be slaine: to be deadly wounded: to die.Ante annos suos occubuit.Ouid.He died before his time.Occumbere morti, Idem.Virg.Neci occumbere.Ouid.To be slaine.Occumbere necem, vel mortem. Suet. Liu.To die or to be slaine.Occumbere morte.Cic. Qui pro patria morte nõ dubitaret occumbere. Certamine sæuo occumbit. Sil. Ferro occumbere.Ouid.To be killed with a sworde.Occupo óccupas, pen. cor. occupâre, Ex ob & capio compositum. Cic.To get or take before another man: to doe before an other: to preuent: to take or holde a thing by force: to posfesse: to occupie: to let: to hold occupied.Occupare saltus. Cæs. To enter first into the forcstes.Occupare. Plautus. To preuent: or doe a thing before another.Occupes prior adire.Plaut.Go to him sicst before he come to thee.Occupat Tullus in agrÛ Sabinum transirc.Liu.Tullus prenented them and sirst went into the fieldes of Sabine.Nisi illa antè occupassit re.Plaut.If she had not preuented you. Occupare.Plaut.To let: to holde occupied.In ea funditus delenda occupati & sunt, & fuerunt.Cic.They both are and haue bene buslly occupied in.Alia quum occupatus esset solitudine.Terent.When he was letted or exoubled with an other carefull matter. Ne te ad aliud occupes negotium. Plautus. Busie not thy selfe with an other matter.Occupare animum in funambulo.Terent.To occuple his minde in beholding a walker on cordes. Aditus occupare, Vide ADBO.Æstum maris occupare. Curt. To preuent the trouble of the sea.Amplexu occupare aliquem.Ouid.To imbrace one sirst.Occupat animos terror. Cæs. Great feare commeth on them.Occupauerat animos fuga.Liu.They hadde bene before in minde and purpose to flie.Animum ab itacundia occupari.Cicer.To haue the minde troubled with the affectation of anger.Occupare liberum mortis arbitrium. Curt. To take free occasion to die of themselfe.Sopor occupat fessos artus.Virg.Sleepe commeth or them being wearie.Arua occupat furens. Valer. Flac. He being, in grat rage goeth sirst into the fieldes: Fama occupat aure. Horat. Solus occupat communia.Ouid.He taketh to hinself alone, things that are common.Occupare consilium.Plaut.To sinde some adui or counsaile quickly.Diem fati occupare. Curt. To preuent his naurall death.Exercitum occupare. Curt. Scabies extremum occupet. Horat. Vide SCABIES. Fortunam occupare & capere.Cic.To preuent and take fortune so that she cannot hurt him.Gratiam alicuius occupare. Curt. To get ones fauour before.Honores. Horat. Italiam militibus occupare.Cic.To keepe Italy by force of sonldiours to his pleasure.Obsidere & occupare præsidijs Italiam.Cicer.To beset and keepe Italie at his pleasure with garrisons.Locum occupare.Cic.To take a place before an her.Locum primum occupare. Lucret. Sopor occupat lumiua fessi. Tibul. He beyng warie falleth a sleepe.Hæc causa primos menses occupabit, Cœli ad CiceronÊ. This matter shall be handled or intreate of the first manethes.Mentes Siculorum tanta superstitio occuauit, vt. &c. Cicer.The mindes of the Sicilians were pssessed with so great snperstition.Ministerium carnisicis occupare. Curt. To do the office of a tormentour.Mors continuò ipsam occupat.Terent.By and by she died.Occupat hos morsu, longis amplexibus illòs.Ouid.Some he taketh in his mouth, other, &c.Munus aliquod occupare. Curt. First to take vpon him an office.Muros occupare. Curt. To take the walles: to get vpon the walles.Quæ homines occupatos occupat.Plaut.Which letteth or troubleth men that be busie: which holdeth with delay, &c.Orbem occupare viribus Virg.Pallor occupat ora.Virg.Their faces waxe pale.Ortum solis occupare. Curt. To preuent the sunne rising.Pacem non dare solùm, sed occupare deberes. Curt. Not onely to graunt peace asked, but also to begin it first.Nauis occupat portum. Horat. The ship entreth the hauen.Possessionem occupare laudis. Plancus ad Ciceronem. Regiam occupare. Horat. Regnum.Cic.To take the kingdome.Solum occupabitur feris. Hor. Suffugium occupare. Curt. Tyrannidem.Cic.To vsurpe.Verba quæ essent ornatissima, atque optima, occupauit Ennius.Cic.Ennius vsed. Occupare hominem. Curt. To preuent a man and take him before he do a thing. Occupare pecuniam alicui, vel apud aliquem fœnore.Cic.To lende out money to one for vsurie.
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occumbo (obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n. [ob-cumbo, cubo], to fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence, I.To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.): cometes cum oriretur occumberetque, Just. 37, 2, 3: cum sol occumberet, Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.—II.To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.(a).Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.): aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.: circa se dimicans occubuerat, id. Tit. 4: fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos, Ov. A. A. 3, 18: dederat ne ferro occumbere posset, id. M. 12, 207: acie, Suet. Ner. 2.—(b). With mortem or morte (the vacillation of MSS. between these two forms makes it difficult to ascertain which was the prevailing one; cf. Zumpt, Gr. 387; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 790): pro patriā mortem (al. morte) occumbere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102 (Kühner, Moser, Orelli, and Baiter have mortem, Klotz and Fischer morte): quod liberata patria ... mortem occubuisset, Liv. 2, 7, 8; 3, 50, 8; 26, 25, 14: qui pugnantes mortem occubuissent, id. 31, 18, 6. —So, too, letum, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 725 P. (Ann. v. 390 Vahl.): necem voluntariam, Suet. Aug. 13 (al., with inferior MSS., nece voluntariā): ictus clavā morte occubuit, Liv. 1, 7, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.: morte occumbentis, id. 8, 10, 4: ambo pro republicā morte occubuisse, id. 38, 58.—(g). With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so, certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci, Ov. M. 15, 499.—(d).To succumb to, fall by the hand of one (poet.).—With dat.: Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis, Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per: per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem, Ov. M. 7, 437. — III. Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.