Succumbo, succumbis, succúbui, succubitum, p. cor. succúmbere. Liu.To líe or fall downe vnder: to faile for feeblenesse: to fainte in courage: to leese his courage: to be ouercome or ouercharged with any thing: to be subdued.Succumbere oneri.Liu.Not to be able to sustain a burden: to fal vnder, &c.Genu flexo succumbere.Ouid. Succumbere ad animum relatum.Cicer.To fainte in courage, &c.Animo succumbere.Cic.Culpæ succumbere. Vir. To yeeld in committing an offence.Doloribus succumbere.Cic.To be ouercome with sorrowe and paine.Succumbere doloribus, eósque humili animo imbecillóq; ferre miserum est.Cic.Fatis succumbere. Lucan. Fortunæ succumbere.Cic.Not to be able to sustaine aduersitie: to be ouercome with aduersitle.Labori succumbere. Cæs. To be ouercome with labour.Precibus alicuius succumbere.Ouid.Senectuti succumbere. C. For age to be able to do no more.Virtutem turbæ succumbere vidit.Ouid.Oculi succumbunt. Oui. The eies are ouercome with sleepe.Lumina nescia succumbere somno.Ouid.Succumbere viro dicitur mulier. Varro.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
suc-cumbo (subc-), cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n., to lay or put one's self under any thing; to fall down, lie, or sink down.I.Lit. (rare; not in Cic.; cf. subsido). A. In gen.: ancipiti succumbens victima ferro, Cat. 64, 370: vidit Cyllenius omnes Succubuisse oculos, had sunk in sleep, i. e. had closed, Ov. M. 1, 714: (Augustus) Nolae succubuit,
took to his bed
, Suet. Aug. 98 fin.: non succumbentibus causis operis, Plin. 36, 15, 24, 106; Arn. 6, 16 Hildebr.—B. In partic. 1. Of a woman, to lie down to a man, to cohabit with him (cf. substerno): alicui, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 9; Cat. 111, 3; Ov. F. 2, 810; Petr. 126; Inscr. Grut. 502, 1; Mart. 13, 64, 1; 14, 201.—2. With dat., of a woman, to be a rival to: alumnae Tethyos, Hyg. Fab. 177; id. Astr. 2, 1.—II.Trop., to yield, be overcome; to submit, surrender, succumb (the predom. and class. signif.; cf.: cedo, me summitto). (a). With dat. (so most freq.): philosopho succubuit orator, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 129: qui Cannensi ruinae non succubuissent, Liv. 23, 25: arrogantiae divitum, Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48: cur succumbis cedisque fortunae?id. Tusc. 3, 17, 36; id. Sull. 25, 71; cf.: nulli neque homini neque perturbationi animi nec fortunae, id. Off. 1, 20, 66: magno animo et erecto est, nec umquam succumbet inimicis, ne fortunae quidem, id. Deiot. 13, 36: mihi, Nep. Eum. 11, 5: labori, Caes. B. G, 7, 86: oneri, Liv. 6, 32: doloribus, Cic. Fin. 1, 15, 49: senectuti, id. Sen. 11, 37: crimini, id. Planc. 33, 82: magis, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 103; Sil. 14, 609: culpae, Verg. A. 4, 19; Ov. M. 7, 749: tempori,
to yield
, Liv. 3, 59, 5: pugnae, id. 22, 54: precibus, Ov. H. 3, 91: voluntati alicujus, App. M. 9, p. 228, 9.—(b).Absol.: non esse viri debilitari dolore, frangi, succumbere, Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 95: huic (socero) subvenire volt succumbenti jam et oppresso, id. Agr. 2, 26, 69: succubuit famae victa puella metu, Ov. F. 2, 810: hac ille perculsus plagā non succubuit, Nep. Eum. 5, 1: succumbe, virtus, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1315: labefacta mens succubuit, id. Troad. 950; App. M. 5, p. 161, 33. — (g). With inf.: nec ipsam perpeti succubuisset, Arn. 1, 38.