Demergo, demergis, demersi, demersum, demérgere. Plin. To drowue a thing: to dip in water or other liquor.Ponto demergite puppim.Ouid.Demergit caput cornix per littora.Cic.The crow plungeth or washeth hir selfe on the sea side.Demergere semen. Col. To cast seede into the ground.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-mergo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to sink, submerge, to plunge into, to dip (class.). I.Lit.: candens ferrum in gelidum imbrem, Lucr. 6, 149: pars remorum demersa liquore, id. 4, 441; cf.: cornix demersit caput, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 8 fin.; and demersis aequora rostris Ima petunt, Verg. A. 9, 119: Marium senile corpus paludibus occultasse demersum, Cic. Sest. 22, 50; cf. id. Div. 2, 68; id. Fin. 2, 32, 105: navem, Plin. 32, 2, 6, 15: triremem hostium perforare et demergere, Auct. B. Alex. 25, 5; 31 fin.: pullos mari, Suet. Tib 2; and in pass. of a person: vehementi circio bis paene demersus est, id. Claud. 17: plebem in fossas cloacasque exhauriendas, i. e.
to busy, employ
, Liv. 1, 59; cf.: vultum in undas, Prop. 3, 18, 9 (4, 17, 9 M.): metalla, Plin. H. N. 33 prooem.: stirpem, to sink or set in, to plant (with deponere), Col. 3, 18, 2 sq.; cf. surculos, Pall. Febr. 17, 3: dapes in alvum, Ov. M. 15, 105; cf. id. ib. 6, 664: si quando nos demersimus, ut qui urinantur, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 474, 27.—Poet.: colla demersere humeris (i. e. absconderunt), Stat. Th. 6, 850.—B. Esp. of the sun-god, etc., to sink in the sea, cause to set (poet.): sex ubi sustulerit totidem demerserit orbes purpureum rapido qui vehit axe diem, Ov. F. 3, 517 sq.: Titan igniferi tantum demerserat orbis, quantum, etc., Luc. 3, 41 sq.—C. Intrans., to set (late Lat.): demergit sol et nascitur, Min. Fel. 34, 11.—II.Trop., to sink, depress, overwhelm: animus depressus et quasi demersus in terram, Cic. de Sen. 21: demersae leges alicujus opibus, emergunt aliquando, id. Off. 2, 7, 24: patriam demersam extuli, id. Sull. 31, 87; cf. Nep. Dion, 6; and concidit domus, ob lucrum demersa exitio, Hor. Od. 3, 16, 13: plebs aere alieno demersa, Liv. 2, 29, 8; cf. id. 6, 27, 6: Rheam in perpetuam virginitatem demersit, Just. 43, 2.—P. a., dēmersus, a, um, depressed. —Comp.: pulsus, Coel. Am. Acut. 2, 32, 165: qui demersiora scrutantur, Rufin. Origen in Cant. 3, p. 10.
