To spende: to consume or waste. Vinum absumere. Terent. Lacessendóque leuibus prœlijs diem absumpsit. Liu. Hes spent the day. &c. Tempus absumere. Cic. Argentum absumere. Plaut. To spende or waste. Domos incendium absumpsit. Plin. iun. Consumed. Pueros absumpsit morbus. Cæs. Tooke away. Re aliqua absumi, vt fame. Liu. To die for hunger: to pine away. Sic absumi morbo. Liu. Morte. Colum. Ferro. Liu. To be killed. Veneno. Liu. Cura. Terent. To be wasted away. Obseruatio absumpta. Plin. Past and no more regarded. Putant dentes in cornua absumi. Plin. That the teeth in beastes doe want, and the nourishment thereof turneth to the hornes. Absumpti sumus. Plaut. We be vndone: we be lost.

I. Orig., to take away; hence, to diminish by taking away. Of things, to consume, to annihilate; of persons, orig. to ruin, to corrupt; later, in a phys. sense, to kill. Thus Hercules, in the transl. of the Trachiniae, complains: sic corpus clade horribili absumptum extabuit, consumed, ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20; so Philoctetes in a piece of Attius: jam jam absumor: conficit animam vis vulneris, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 7, 19 (Trag. Rel. p. 209 Rib.): jam ista quidem absumpta res erit: diesque noctesque estur, bibitur, etc., Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78: absumpti sumus, pater tuus venit, we are lost, undone! id. ib. 2, 1, 18; id. Am. 5, 1, 6: nisi quid tibi in tete auxili est, absumptus es, you are ruined, id. Ep. 1, 1, 76: dum te fidelem facere ero voluisti, absumptu's paene, id. Mil. 2, 4, 55: pytisando modo mihi quid vini absumpsit! has consumed, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 48; so, absumet heres Caecuba dignior, Hor. C. 2, 14, 25: mensas malis, Verg. A. 3, 257; cf. id. G. 3, 268; and: absumptis frugum alimentis, Liv. 23, 30, 3: urbem flammis, to consume, destroy, Liv. 30, 7, 9; cf. Vell. 2, 130; Plin. Ep. 10, 42: plures fame quam ferro absumpti, Liv. 22, 39, 14; cf.: quos non oppresserat ignis, ferro absumpti, killed, id. 30, 6, 6; and: multi ibi mortales ferro ignique absumpti sunt, id. 5, 7, 3; so, nisi mors eum absumpsisset, id. 23, 30 fin.; and: animam leto, Verg. A. 3, 654.—Absumi, to be killed: ubi nuper Epiri rex Alexander absumptus erat, Liv. 9, 17 fin.—Absumi in aliquid, to be used for any thing, to be changed into: dentes in cornua absumi, Plin. 11, 37, 45 fin.—

II. Fig., to ruin: cum ille et curā et sumptu absumitur, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 26: satietatem amoris, to consume, id. ib. 5, 5, 6.—Often of time: ne dicendo tempus absumam, spend, pass, Cic. Quint. 10; so, quattuor horas dicendo, Liv. 45, 37, 6: diem, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 114: biduum inter cogitationes, Curt. 3, 6, 8: magnam partem aetatis in hoc, Quint. 12, 11, 15.