Exanimo, exánimas, pen, cor. exanimâre, ab Animo deductum. Plaut.To trouble: to make afearde: to astonish and make he cannot tell what to doe.Oratio hæc me miseram exanimauit metu. Ter. Metuences verbera exanimantur. Hora. Te metus exanimant iudiciorum arque legum. Ci. The feare of iudgement and lawe doth sore aslonish thee. Exanimare, ab Anima. Cæsar. To kill: to take his life from him.Exammare & interimere Cic.Graui vul nete exanimare.Cic.
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ex-ănĭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.To deprive of air or wind.A.Lit.: folles, i. e. to press together, so as to force out the air, Auct. Aetnae, 560.—B.Transf. (in pass.), to be out of breath, weakened, exhausted: simul fore ut duplicato cursu Caesaris milites exanimarentur et lassitudine conficerentur, Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2: milites cursu ac lassitudine exanimati, id. B. G. 2, 23, 1; 3, 19, 1; Plaut. As. 2, 1, 17; id. Cas. 3, 5, 8; 3, 3, 10.—b. Of impers. or abstr. things, to be weakened: (vini faex) celerrime exanimatur loco non incluso condita,
loses its strength
, Plin. 23, 2, 31, 64: nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire, with feeble breath, i. e. lifeless, tame, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41.—II.To deprive of life, to kill (freq. and class.). A.Lit.: telum saepe nocentes Praeterit exanimatque indignos, Lucr. 2, 1104: aliquem, id. 6, 243; Suet. Aug. 29; Curt. 7, 3; Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf.: se taxo, Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin.—b. In pass., to be deprived of life, be killed, to die: (Epaminondas) cum gravi vulnere exanimari se videret, Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; cf. Nep. Epam. 9 fin.; so Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 77; Caes. B. G. 6, 16, 4; Suet. Caes. 39 fin. al.; cf. in the part. perf.: exanimatus,
killed
,
dead
, Lucr. 6, 1256 (with exanimis); Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 6; 7, 25, 2 and 3; Liv. 9, 1; 25, 7; 22, 7fin. al. —B.Trop., to deprive of life or spirit, toalarm or terrify greatly, to put out of one's senses with fright, horror, etc.; to agitate, trouble: vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5: oratio haec me miseram exanimavit metu, Ter. And. 1, 5, 16; cf.: te metus exanimant judiciorum atque legum, Cic. Par. 2, 18: Decius torpidos somno insuper pavore exanimat, Liv. 7, 36: adolescentulus sic initio accusationis exanimatus sum, ut, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: me exanimant et interimunt hae voces Milonis, id. Mil. 34, 93: Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat, id. Att. 11, 6, 4: cur me querelis exanimas (= conturbas, summo maerore afficis) tuis?Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf. id. S. 1, 4, 127; id. Ep. 2, 1, 178 et saep.—In the part. perf.: exanimata metu, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; cf. Cic. Mil. 23; id. Verr. 2, 2, 77; id. Cat. 4, 2: non me fefellit, sensi; eo exanimatus fui, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 4, 64; id. Ps. 1, 1, 7; Ter. And. 1, 1, 104; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5; Verg. A. 5, 805; Stat. Th. 4, 760 al.