Neco, necas, necáui, necâtum, & necui, nectum, necâre. Plautus. To slay: to kill.Obrutam armis necauere.Liu.Omni senatu necato. Cæs. Afflatu necare aliquem.Ouid.To kill with breathing on.Necari ac trucidari.Cic. Ferro necari. Horat. In amne necari.Ouid. Morsu necare aliquom. Oui. Odore tetro necare aliquem. Lucr. Necantur herbatum radices. Colum. Legumina necare. Plin. Indolem rectam necas. Sen.
Nex, necis. Cic.Violent death with weapon or other force.Viri in vxores, sicuti in liberos, vitæ, necisque habent potestatem. Cæs. Haue power of life and death.Dignus nece.Ouid.Artifices necis.Ouid.The innentonrs of straunge death.Author necis.Ouid. Multorum ciuium neces. Cic.Iniusta nex.Cic. Nefanda nex. Val. Flac. Afferre necem alteri.Cic.To cause one to be put to death.Cecidit nece vir.Ouid.Consciuit sibijpsi necem Iunius.Cic.Iunius killed himselfe.Dédere aliquem neci.Virg.To put to death.Demittere aliquem neci.Virg.Duræ neci deserta virgo.Val. Flac.Infandæ neci dare aliquem.Ouid.Datus neci. Fest. Poysoned, or caused to die for hunger: put to death.Effugere necem.Ouid.Eripere necem alicui.Stat.To saue from death.Inferre necem, Vide INFERO.Maturare necem alicui. Horat. To procure speedle death to one.Meruisse necem.Ouid. Miscere neces. Val. Flac.Corpora missa neci.Ouid.Bodies slaine.Moliri necem alicui. Tac. To indeuour to worke ones death.Occumbere neci.Ouid.To be slaine.Parare necem alicui.Ouid.To worke ones death.Indignam necem pati.Ouid.Patrare necem. Tac. Causam præbere necis.Ouid.Gelida nece totus. Lucr. Impia nece genitorem sternere. Val. Flae. Vlcisci necem alicuius.Ouid.Graui vrgendus nece.Senec.In necem alterius. Vlp. To the vndoing of an other.
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nĕco, āvi, ātum (perf. necuit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P.; v. infra; part. nectus, Ser. Samm. 33, 627; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. naç, disappear; Gr. ne/kus, corpse, nekro/s, dead], to kill, slay, put to death, destroy (usually without a weapon, by poison, hunger, etc.; cf.: occido, interficio, interimo, perimo). I.Lit.: neci datus proprie dicitur, qui sine vulnere interfectus est, ut veneno aut fame, Paul. ex Fest. p. 162 Müll.: occisum a necato distingui quidam volunt, quod alterum a caedendo atque ictu fieri dicunt, alterum sine ictu, id. s. v. occisum, p. 178 ib.: necare aliquem odore taetro, Lucr. 6, 787: plebem fame, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2: legatum P. R. vinculis ac verberibus necavit, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11: aliquem igni, Caes. B. G. 1, 53: aliquem ferro, Hor. S. 2, 7, 58; Verg. A. 8, 488: veneno, Suet. Ner. 43: securi Gell. 17, 21, 17; Juv. 10, 316: suspendiosa fame, Plin. 8, 37, 56, 134: vidissem nullos, matre necante, dies, Ov. Am. 2, 14, 22: homines in ventre necandos conducit, Juv. 6, 596: colubra necuit hominem, Phaedr. 4, 14, 4.—Of impersonal subjects: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.): lien necat, renes dolent, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21: radices herbarum vomere, Col. 2, 4, 1: salsi imbres necant frumenta, Plin. 31, 4, 29, 52: hedera arbores, id. 16, 44, 92, 243; cf. Laber. ap. Macr. Sat. 2, 7: aquae flammas necant,
quench
, Plin. 31, 1, 1, 2; to drown (late Lat.): deducti ad torrentem necati sunt, Sulp. Sev. Hist. 1.—II.Trop.: quid te coërces et necas rectam indolem, i. e.
thwart, check
, Sen. Hippol. 454.—So to worry or bore to death with talking, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 43 (cf.: occidis saepe rogando, Hor. Epod. 14, 5).
nex, nĕcis, f. [neco], death (syn.: mors, letum). I.Lit.A.A violent death, murder, slaughter (cf.: caedes, occisio): mater terribilem minatur vitae cruciatum et necem, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218 (Trag. v. 44 Vahl.): insidiatori et latroni, quae potest esse injusta nex, Cic. Mil. 4, 10: necem sibi consciscere, id. N. D. 2, 3, 7: vitae necisque potestatem habere in aliquem, Caes. B. G. 1, 10: necem comminari alicui, Suet. Caes. 14: neci dedere, Verg. G. 4, 90: neci demittere, id. A. 2, 85: neci mittere, id. ib. 12, 513: neci dare, id. ib. 12, 341: necem alicui parare, Ov. A. A. 1, 73: neci occumbere, id. M. 15, 499; id. H. 14, 12: eripere necem alicui, Stat. Th. 3, 69: miscere neces,
to murder
, Val. Fl. 3, 381: gravi nece urgere aliquem, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1833: devotus neci,
doomed to death
, id. Thyest. 693: vitae necisque potestas, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 8, 1.—(b). With gen. obj.: multorum civium neces, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 18.—(g). With gen. subj.: venatorum, Phaedr. 2, 8, 2.—B. In gen., death, a natural death (rare and post-Aug.): post necem Mithridatis, Just. 42, 1, 1: post necem consulis, Suet. Caes. 5: fata nobis sensum nostrae necis auferunt, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 21, 7.—II.Transf., the blood of the slain: (manūs) imbutae Phrygia nece, Ov. A. A. 2, 714.—B. In gen., destruction, ruin, = pernicies, exitium (jurid. Lat.): in necem alicujus, Dig. 38, 5, 1; 36, 4, 5; 15, 1, 21.