Morior, morîris pen. prod. vel móreris, pen. cor. mortuus sum, mori & moríri, pen. prod. Ter. To die: to be slaine.-certum est moriti quâm hunc pati Lenonem in me grassari. Plau. I am determined rather to die, then to suffer, &c.Moriendum cerrè est, & id incertum an eo ipso die.Cicer.Pansa ex vuloeribus mortuus.Cic.Pansa died of his woÛds that he had taken.Ab ense mori. Lucan. To be slaine with a sworde.Moriebatur in studio dimetiendi cœli.Cic.Immeritus mori Hor.Wor thy neuer to die.Per vim mori. Hor. To be slaine by violence.Ante diem morior.Ouid. Acrius mori. Propert. Æquissimo animo moritur sapientissimus quisque, stultissimus inquissimo.Cic.Insano amore mori.Ouid.Curis morior. Tibul. Frigore mori. Hor. Desyderio alicuius mori.Cic.To long merueylonsly for one.Letho moriêre virorum.Stat. Nunquam vestrorum in nos beneficiorum memoria ac sama motietur. Cicer.Your benefits towards vs shall neuer be forgorten.Meriti morietur gloria vestri.Ouid.The glory of your benestre shall perish, de cay or be forgotten.Memoria soauissimi hominis ne motiatur.Cicer.That the most sweete and plealant man may not be forgotten.Vt iste sermo delicia rum moreretur.Cic.Veillis virgis miseris, quæ hodie in rergo morientur meo. Plant. That shall this day be wasted on my backe.Vnguentum suis horis moritur. Plin. An ointment or sweete oyle decayeth in the time of the vse of it. Moriar, Iurandi verbum, quemadmodum Dispeream.Cic.I pray God I die.
Mortuus, aliud participium, Claud. Dead: without courage or spirite.Lacerti senis athletæ mortui.Cic.Plausus mortuus.Cic.Concedit mortuus veneno poto Themistocles.Cic.Mortuo verba facere.Plaut.To rell his tale to a dead man: to spende his labour in vaine.Verba fiunt mortuo. Ter. This is but lost labour.A mortuo tributum exigere, vel colligere. Aristoteles. Excitate aliquem mortuis.Cic.To raise from death to life.
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mŏrĭor, mortŭus, 3 (fut. part. moriturus, a, um, Cic. Arch. 12, 30; id. Div. 2, 25, 54; 2, 47, 99; Liv. 21, 12, 4; Verg. A. 4, 308; id. ib. 2, 511 et saep.; old forms acc. to the fourth conj.: si vivimu' sive morīmur, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 830 P.; Ann. v. 384 Vahl.; inf. moriri, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 108; id. Capt. 3, 5, 54; id. Rud. 3, 3, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 124 Ritschl N. cr.;Ov. M. 14, 215), v. dep. [Sanscr. root mar-, die; Gr. mor- (mro-, bro-), mar; broto/s, marai/nw; cf.: morbus, marceo], to die (cf.: pereo, intereo, occĭdo, occumbo, obeo, exspiro; class.). I.Lit.: vivam an moriar, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. metus, p. 123 Müll. (Trag. v. 179 Vahl.): ego cum genui, tum morituros scivi, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 28 (Trag. v. 361 Vahl.): mori, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 24: atque eundem (L. Tarquinium) ... accepimus mortuum esse, cum duodequadraginta regnavisset annos, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 36: moriendum certe est, id. Sen. 20, 74: desiderio,
of desire
, id. Att. 1, 3, 1: ut fame senatores quinque morerentur, id. ib. 6, 1, 6: me esse homines mortuom dicant fame, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 57; so, fame, Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 3; 1, 7, 8: fame et siti, Liv. 7, 35, 8: siti, id. 4, 30, 8; Petr. 10; Pomp. ap. Gell. 10, 24, 5: vigilando, Juv. 3, 232: ex vulnere, of a wound, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4: in tormentis, Liv. 40, 23: alterius amore, Ov. Am. 2, 7, 10: curis, Tib. 2, 7, 33 (6, 51): fame, Petr. 10: inediā, Plin. 14, 13, 14, 89: significabat interruptis atque morientibus vocibus,
dying accents, the accents of a dying man
, Cic. Cael. 24, 59: mori videbamus in studio dimetiundi paene caeli atque terrae C. Galum,
spend his whole life in
, id. Sen. 14, 49: cum te complexā morientem, Galle, puellā Vidimus,
desperately in love, dying for love
, Prop. 1, 10, 5: ei mihi, si quis, Acrius ut moriar, venerit alter amor, id. 2, 4, 1 sq.: moriar, si, may I die, if, etc., Cic. Att. 8, 6, 4.—II.Transf., of things, to die away, decay, to wither away, pass away, to vanish, lose its strength, etc.; of members of the body: id quod supra vinculum est, moritur,
loses its vitality
, Cels. 7, 14.—Of plants: rutam et hederas illico mori,
die away, perish
, Plin. 28, 7, 23, 78: moriturque ad sibila campus, Stat. Th. 5, 528.—Of fire: flammas vidi nullo concutiente mori,
die out, go out
, Ov. Am. 1, 2, 11; of comets: donec in exiguum moriens vanesceret ignem, Claud. B. Get. 248: unguenta moriuntur,
lose their strength
, Plin. 13, 3, 4, 20.—To end, close: dies quidem jam ad umbilicum est dimidiatus mortuus, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 45.—Comic.: vae illis virgis miseris, quae hodie in tergo morientur meo,
will find their death, be destroyed, broken
, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 117: ut iste interpositus sermo deliciarum desidiaeque moreretur, Cic. Cael. 31, 76: ne suavissimi hominis memoria moreretur, id. Pis. 38, 93: cum multa cotidie ab antiquis ficta moriantur,
fall into disuse, become obsolete
, Quint. 8, 6, 32: gratia, Ov. P. 3, 2, 27. —Esp. (in eccl. Lat.), of the loss of moral or spiritual vitality, to die, to lose virtue and divine guidance: in Adam omnes moriuntur, Vulg. 1 Cor. 15, 22: confirma cetera quae moritura erant, id. Apoc. 3, 2; cf. id. Johan. 11, 26; id. Rom. 7, 9.—Hence, mŏrtŭus, a, um, P. a., dead (class.). A.Adj.1.Lit.: sanguine tauri poto mortuus concidit, Cic. Brut. 11, 43.—Prov.: mortuum esse alicui,
to be dead to one, to wish to have nothing further to do with him
, Plaut. Cist. 3, 15.—2.Transf.a. Of persons, faint, overwhelmed: cum tu, quod tibi succederetur, exsanguis et mortuus concidisti, Cic. Pis. 36, 88.—b. Of things concr. and abstr., dead, decayed, withered, passed away, etc.: lacerti, Cic. Sen. 9, 27: flores, Plin. 11, 8, 8, 18: et antiquae leges, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18, 45: plausus, id. Att. 2, 19, 3: mortuā re verba nunc facis. Stultus es, rem actam agis,
dead, done with
, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27.—c. Mare mortuum. (a).The North Sea of Europe, Plin. 4, 13, 27, 94.— (b).The Dead Sea of Judea, Just. 36, 3.— B.Subst.: mŏrtŭus, i, m., a dead person, dead man: mortuum in domum inferre, Cic. Mil. 27, 75: a mortuis excitare,
to awake from the dead
, id. de Or 1, 57, 242: amandare aliquem infra mortuos,
even below the dead
, id. Quint. 15, 49: ut multis mortuus unus sufficeret, Juv. 15, 79: ossa mortuorum, Vulg. Matt. 23, 27.—Prov.: mortuo verba facere, to talk to a dead man, i. e. in vain, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 18; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 26.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.), dead, without spiritual life: nomen habes quod vivas et mortuus es, Vulg. Apoc. 3, 1: fides sine operibus mortua est, id. Jac. 2, 26; cf. id. Eph. 2, 1; 5, 14.—Also, dead to any thing, not alive to it, not open to its influence, etc.: peccato, Vulg. Rom. 6, 2: peccatis, id. 1 Pet. 2, 24: legi, id. Gal. 2, 19; cf.: mortui cum Christo ab elementis hujus mundi, id. Col. 2, 20: mortui estis, et vita vestra est abscondita cum Christo in Deo, id. ib. 3, 3.