The moone being nighest to vs, and furthest from the first planet of Saturne. Memoria vltima. Cic. The furthest that one can remember. Tempus proximum, medium, vltimum. Ci. Platea vltima. Plaut. The furthermost end of a streete. Terra vltima. Ci. Ad vltimum, Vide AD præpositionem. Vltimum ac maximum telum necessitas. Li. Necessitie % extreame and greatest cause to force one, that can be. Vltima inopia. Liu. Extreeme pouertie and neede. DenÛtiare necessitatem vltimam. Tac, To menace death. Vltima pœna. Li. Punishment by death. Vltimum bonum. Ci. The chiefe felicitie or goodnes. Vltima experiri. Liu. To vse the extreme remedie: to trie extremitie. Vltima pati. Liu. To suffer extreme punishmente: to suffer the greatest mischiefe that can be. Hæc Ciceroni vltima esse in malis. C. That these things are reputed of Cicero the greatest euils % can chance to man. Vltimum periculi. Curt. Danger of death. Vltimus, pro Primus aliquando ponitur. Virg. The firste. Varijs ab vltima antiquitate repetitis. Ci. From the furthest time of our auncesters. Vltimum in amicitia. Ci. Vltimum principium. Ci. The sirst beginning. Initium vltimum. Author ad Heren.

I. Lit.: omnium rerum mors est extremum, Cic. Fam. 6, 21, 1: mors ultima linea rerum est, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 79: mortem sibi consciscere, to kill one's self, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 56, 129: obire, to die, id. Phil. 5, 17, 48; Plaut Aul. prol. 15: nam necessest me ... cras mortem exequi, id. Ps. 4, 2, 38: certae occumbere morti, to submit to, Verg. A. 2, 62: aliquem ad mortem dare, to put to death, kill, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 177: morti, Hor. S. 2, 3, 197: aliquem morte multare, Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; so, per vim, id. Verr. 2, 1, 5, 14: morte multatus, id. Tusc. 1, 40, 97; Tac. A. 6, 9; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 15; Lact. 2, 9, 24: morte punire, Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 12; Tac. A. 4, 44; 11, 18: mortis poena, Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7: morti addici, id. Off. 3, 10, 45: omne humanum genus morte damnatum est, Sen. Ep. 71, 15: Antonius civium suorum vitae sedebat mortisque arbiter, Sen. Polyb. 16, 2: vitae et mortis habere potestatem, Vulg. Sap. 16, 13: illata per scelus, assassination, Cic. Mil. 7, 17: ad mortem se offerre pro patriā, id. Tusc. 1, 15, 32: afferre, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2: multare aliquem usque ad mortem, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9: morte cadere, Hor. C. 4, 2, 15: morte acerbissimā affici, Serv. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2: multare, id. de Or. 1, 43, 100: ad mortem duci, id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100: cui legatio ipsa morti fuisset, brought death, id. Phil. 9, 1, 3: imperfecta, blindness, Stat. Th. 11, 582: morte suā mori, to die a natural death: bella res est, mori suā morte, Sen. Ep. 69, 6: mors suprema, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 173; Sil. 5, 416: mortis fine, Boëth. Consol. 2, 7: quae rapit ultima mors est, Lucil. ap. Sen. Ep. 24, 20: proximus morti = moriens, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8; App. M. 1, 72; cf.: morti vicinus, Aug. Serm. 306, 10; Hier. in Joel, 1, 13 al.; cf.: cui, mors cum appropinquet, Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31: cujus aetati mors propior erat, Sall. H. 2, 41, 9: adpropinquante morte, Cic. Div. 1, 30, 64 sq.: ut prorogetur tibi dies mortis, Sen. Ben. 5, 17, 6: circa mortis diem, id. Ep. 27, 2: mansurum est vitium usque ad diem mortis, Cels. 7, 7, 15 init.—Poet.: mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula, Juv. 10, 173. —In plur.: mortes, when several persons are spoken of: praeclarae mortes sunt imperatoriae, Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; so Hor. S. 1, 3, 108: meorum, Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 1: perdere mortes, to throw away lives, to die in vain, Stat. Th. 9, 58: hinc subitae mortes, Juv. 1, 144.—Also of different forms or modes of death: omnīs per mortīs, Verg. A. 10, 854; cf.: omni imagine mortium, Tac. H. 3, 28; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2.—Rarely of an abstract thing: fere rerum omnium oblivio morsque memoriae, death, total loss, Plin. 14, 22, 28, 142.—

B. Personified.

1. Mors, a goddess, the daughter of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A. 11, 197; Hyg. Fab. praef.—

2. (Eccl. Lat.) = eum qui habebat mortis imperium, id est, diabolum, Vulg. Heb. 2, 14; id. Isa. 28, 15; cf.: ero mors tua, o mors, id. Hos. 13, 14; id. Apoc. 6, 8.—

II. Transf.

A. A dead body, corpse (mostly poet.): morte campos contegi, with corpses, Att. ap. Non. 110, 31: mortem ejus (Clodii) lacerari, body, corpse, Cic. Mil. 32, 86; Cat. 64, 362; Prop. 3, 5, 22: vitis, quam juxta hominis mors laqueo pependerit, Plin. 14, 19, 23, 119; Stat. Th. 1, 768.—Hence, jestingly, of an old man: odiosum est mortem amplexari, a corpse, a skeleton, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33.—

B. Like fo/nos, the blood shed by murder: ensem multā morte recepit, Verg. A. 9, 348.—

C. That which brings death (of missiles), a deadly weapon (poet.): mille cavet lapsas circum cava tempora mortes, Stat. Th. 6, 792; Luc. 7, 517: per pectora saevas Exceptat mortes, Sil. 9, 369.—Of a sentence or threat of death: ut auferat a me mortem istam, Vulg. Ex. 10, 17; of terrible pangs and anxieties: contritiones mortis, id. 2 Reg. 22, 5: dolores mortis, id. Psa. 18, 4; 116, 3; of a cruel and murderous officer: aderat mors terrorque sociorum et civium lictor Sestius, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, 118.—

D. Esp. (eccl. Lat.): mors secunda, the second death, future punishment, Vulg. Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14: mors alone, id. 1 Joh. 5, 16; also spiritual death, that of a soul under the dominion of sin: stimulus mortis peccatum est, id. 1 Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et saep.; cf. Lact. 7, 10 fin.