To keepe downe: to thruste downe: to presse or weyghe downe. Fluctus deprimit carinam. Ouid. Lanx in libra ponderibus impositis deprimitur. Cicer. The tone side of the ballance is borne down when weights are put in. Deprimere plantam, vel vitem in terram. Col. To plant or set into the grounde. Deprimere naues. Cæs. To make shippes to sinke & bee drowne d. Extollere & deprimere, contraria. Cic. Deprimere & adaugere, contraria Author ad Her. Locum deprimere, pro depressiorem facere. Vlpi. To make a place lower. Deprimunt me quæ porto. Plaut. My burden maketh mee to stoupe. Deprimere, Præponderare. Cic.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: vis venti nubem deprimit, Lucr. 6, 432: qui (Critolaus) tantum propendere illam lancem putet, ut terram et maria deprimat, Cic. Tusc. 5, 17 fin.; cf. id. Fin. 5, 30, 92: deprimi in tenebras, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 3, 19: ad mentum depresso supercilio, id. Pis. 6 fin.: animus caelestis ex altissimo domicilio depressus et quasi demersus in terram, id. de Sen. 21: depresso aratro (sc. in terram), Verg. G. 1, 45 et saep.—Absol.: haec quae porto deprimunt, Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 9.—

B. In partic.

1. To sink deep, as a plant, a well, etc.; to plant deep, to dig deep: vites in terram, Cato R. R. 32 fin.; cf. Plin. 14, 1, 3, 10: plantas, Col. 11, 3, 28 et saep.: qui tollit aedificium, vel deprimit, Dig. 8, 2, 17, 2: saxum in mirandam altitudinem depressum, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27; cf.: valle in altitudinem depressa, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9, 2: locus circiter duodecim pedes humi depressus, Sall. C. 55, 3: fossam, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 3; Tac. A. 15, 42: deprimere vel allevare rivum, Dig. 8, 4, 11 et saep.—

2. Naut. t. t., to sink to the bottom, to sink, sc. a ship: partem navium, Caes. B. C. 1, 58 fin.: naves, id. ib. 2, 6 fin.; 2, 7; Nep. Con. 4, 4: lenunculos, Caes. B. C. 2, 43 fin.: carinam, Ov. M. 14, 185; Tac. H. 4, 79: classis superata atque depressa, Cic. de imp. Pomp. 8, 21 et saep. —

II. Trop.

A. To press down, depress: animus depressus, Lucr. 6, 53: vos, gemi nae voragines scopulique reipublicae, vos meam fortunam deprimitis? vestram extollitis? (a figure borrowed from the sinking of a ship, v. supra, no. I. B. 2), Cic. Pis. 18; cf.: improbitate depressa veritas emergit, id. Clu. 65, 183: ita se quisque extollit, ut deprimat alium, Liv. 3, 65 fin.; cf. id. 30, 36; Plin. Pan. 44, 6 et saep.: preces, to suppress, silence, Nep. Att. 22, 2: nunc quid elocutio attollat aut deprimat dicendum, Quint. 8, 3 fin.: depressus in ludum, i. e. pressed, forced, Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3.—

B. Esp., to depreciate in words, disparage (cf. depretio): adversariorum causam per contemptionem deprimere, Auct. Her. 1, 5, 8; Cic. Inv. 1, 16, 22.—

C. To oppress (late Lat.): populum, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 5, 15.—Hence, dēpressus, a, um, P. a.

A. Lit., pressed down, i. e. deep, lying low, depressed (perh. only post-Aug.): humilius et depressius iter, Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 2: aquaeductus depressior, Front. Aquaed. 65: depresso loco castra ponere, id. Strat. 1, 5, 24.—

B. Transf., of the voice, low, suppressed: quam sedatissima et depressissima vox, Auct. Her. 3, 14.—Adv.: dē-pressē, deeply; pos. not found.—Comp.: fodere, quo depressius aestivos specus foderint, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 9, 2: pastinare, Col. 11, 3, 10.