To be lost: to be consumed: to perish: to die: to wither away: to miscarie: to be cast away: to be vtterly vndone. Ne pueri pereant fame. Plaut. That the children die not for huuger. -prudens, sciens. Viuus, vidensque; pereo. Tere. I cast my selfe away wittingly and willingly. Quod si fit pereo funditus. Teren. Which if it come to passe, I am vtterly vndone. Si putas me posse sanari, cures velim: sin perij planè, minus laboro. Cic. But if it be vtterly vndone, and paste al hope of remedie, &c. Certò perij. Plaut. Penitus perire. Lucr. Obnixè perire. Lucr. Vtterly to be vndone and cast away. Perpetuo perire, Vide PERPETVO. Ocyus perire, Lucr. Subitò perire. Lucr. Perire re. Plaut. Vide A. Perit ab animo. Plan. His heart & courage is done: in minds he is vndone. Animo perire. Plaut, To haue his heart faile him: to fainte as ons in a sowne or qualme. Ingenio pereo meo. Oui. Iam cast away by mine own wit or deuise. Lustris perire. Lucret. To cast himselfe away and be vndone through haunting of hatlots and brothell houses. Meo vitio pereo. Cic. Metagenes certè perijt. Cic. Metagenes is bankerupt and vndone. Perierunt ædes. Plaut. The house is fallen in vtter decay. Comæ formosæ periere. Ouid. Decor perit multo vulnere. Sen. Nullus otio perit dies apibus. Plin. Bees passe no day idely, but do somewhat. Fabæ pereunt læso flore. Ouid. Beanes wither when the blossome is hurt. Honos gentis perit. Ouid. Labor irritus anui perit. Ouid. The labour of that yeare is in vaine and lost. Niues pereunt tepente sole. Ouid. Snow consumeth away. Nummi pereunt. Hora. Opera & oleum philologiæ nostræ perijc. Cic. We haue lost al our labor bestowed in the loue of studie & learned talk. Pecunia perijt. Ter. -tua arte viginti minæ Pro psaltria pericere. Tere. By thy craft I haue caste away xx. Ii. vpon the singing wenche. Pudor illi perijt. Plaut. He is past shame. Puppis hausta perijt. Ouid. Res & fides perit. Plaut. Hee hath lost both goodes & credite. Telum pereat rubigine. Horat. Let the weapon bee marred with rust. Tempora auxilij perierunt. Ouid. Virtus perit fraude. Ouid. Funditus pereunt vrbes. Hor. Cities be vtterly decayed. Perite ab aliquo. Plin. To bee slaine of one. Inter arma & enses perijt. Ouid. Hee was slaine in battaile fighting. Crudelius perire. Quint. Fortirer perire. Hor. To be slaine valiantly: to die manfully. Generosius perire. Hor. Cruciatu summo perire. Cic. Lætho præcipiti perire. Sen. Manibus hominum perire. Virg. To be slaine of men. Morbo perire. Cæs. To die of a sickenesse. Morte merita perire. Virg. To dre a worthie death. Occisione perire ad vnum, Vide Occisio in OCCIDO. Telo perire. Ouid. To be slaine with. Peream. Brutus ad Ciceronem. I pray God I die then: I would I might die. Modus iurandi. Malè pereat Lesbia. Horat. An ill death may Lesbia die: A mischiefe take Lesbia. Terminus pereundi. Sil. Pereundum est mihi. Propert. Perire mulierum. Plau. To loue vesperately and beyonde al measure.

Cunning: perfit in a science: expert. Multarum rerum peritus. Cicer. Expert and skilfull in many things.

I. To pass away, come to nothing; to vanish, disappear, be lost: e patriā, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 5: ecqua inde perisset soror, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15: ne vena periret aquae, Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16.—

B. Esp., to pass through, leak, be absorbed (poet.): lymphae Dolium pereuntis, Hor. C. 3, 11, 27; cf.: postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether In gremium matris terrai praecipitavit, Lucr. 1, 250.—

II. To pass away, to be destroyed, to perish (the predom. and class. signif. of the word; syn.: occĭdo, intereo, obeo).

A. In gen.: aedes cum fundamento perierint, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 69: tantam pecuniam tam brevi tempore perire potuisse, Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11: totum exercitum periturum, Nep. Epam. 7, 4: fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (in the game of chess), let your knight be taken by a pawn, Ov. A. A. 2, 208: causae cur urbes perirent, Hor. C. 1, 16, 19: peritura regna, Verg. G. 2, 498: puppis, Ov. F. 3, 600: Troja peritura, Verg. A. 2, 660: pereunt sole tepente nives, melt away, Ov. F. 3, 236: telum rubigine, Hor. S. 2, 1, 13: comae, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 30: fabae laeso flore, id. F. 5, 267.—Of the crocus: gaudet calcari et atteri, pereundoque melius provenit, Plin. 21, 6, 17, 34.—

B. In partic.

1. To perish, lose one's life, die (class.): non intellego, quamobrem, si vivere honeste non possunt, perire turpiter velint; aut cur minore dolore perituros se cum multis, quam si soli pereant, arbitrentur, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21: summo cruciatu supplicioque, id. N. D. 3, 33, 81: fame, id. Inv. 2, 57, 172: eodem leto esse pereundum, id. Div. 1, 26, 56: morbo, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 86: naufragio, Cic. Deiot. 9, 25: hominum manibus, Verg. A. 3, 606: uterque juravit, periturum inter nos secretum, that it should perish with us, Petr. 21: ab Hannibale, at his hands, Plin. 11, 37, 73, 189: perire turpiter, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21: fortiter, Hor. S. 2, 3, 42: generosius, id. C. 1, 37, 21: a morbo, Nep. Reg. 3, 3.—

2. To pine away with love, to be desperately in love; to love to desperation (poet.): indigno cum Gallus amore peribat, Verg. E. 10, 10; Cat. 45, 3: quo beatus Vulnere, quā pereat sagittā, Hor. C. 1, 27, 11: ipse Paris nudā fertur periisse Lacaenā, Prop. 2, 12, 13.—With acc. of the beloved object, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 135.—

3. To be lost, wasted, spent in vain: ne et oleum et opera perierit, Cic. Att. 2, 17, 1: tempora, Ov. R. Am. 107: labor, id. M. 1, 273: nullus perit otio dies, Plin. 11, 6, 5, 14: ne nummi pereant, Hor. S. 1, 2, 133: minae, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 25: aurum, Col. 11, 1, 29; cf. actiones, Liv. 39, 18.—

4. To be lost, ruined, undone: quid fieri tum potuit? jampridem perieramus, Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1: meo vitio pereo, id. ib. 11, 9, 1.—Hence, perii, etc., as an exclamation of despair, I am lost! I'm undone! hei mihi, disperii! vocis non habeo satis: vicini, interii, perii, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 36: perii, interii, occidi! quo curram! quo non curram? id. Aul. 4, 9, 1: perii animo, am disheartened, id. Rud. 2, 6, 26; cf.: ingenio perii, Ov. Tr. 2, 2; Lucr. 4, 1136: periimus, actum est, we are lost, it is all over with us, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 26: perierat et inventus est, Vulg. Luc. 24, 32; 15, 6.—So, peream, si, nisi, in asseverations, may I perish, may I die, if or if not, Ov. H. 17, 183; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 4; Ov. P. 3, 5, 47; id. H. 17, 183.—Gerund and gerundive: nisi illud perdo argentum, pereundum est mihi, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 91; Prop. 2, 1, 53: pereundi figurae, Ov. H. 10, 81: pereundi terminus, Sil. 3, 559: puppis pereunda est probe, must be lost, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 70.—

C. Trop., of moral qualities, etc.: pudor periit, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 81: fides, id. Truc. 1, 1, 24: virtus, Ov. F. 2, 227.

I. Lit.

(a). Absol.: nil iam mihi novi Offerri pote, quin sim peritus, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 19: doctos homines vel usu peritos, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 147: docti a peritis, id. ib. 3, 3, 15: ab hominibus callidis ac peritis animadversa, id. de Or. 1, 23, 109: decede peritis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213: me peritus discet Iber, id. C. 2, 20, 19: homo peritissimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 66: hominem peritissimum in eis ipsis rebus, superare, quas, etc., id. ib. 1, 15, 66: peritissimi duces, Caes. B. C. 3, 73; Prop. 1, 10, 7. —

(b). With gen.: multarum rerum peritus, Cic. Font. 7, 15: antiquitatis nostrae et scriptorum veterum litterate peritus, id. Brut. 56, 205: earum regionum, Caes. B. C. 1, 48: caelestium prodigiorum, Liv. 1, 34: peritiores rei militaris, id. 3, 61: bellorum omnium peritissimus, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 68: peritissimi caeli ac siderum vates, Curt. 4, 10, 4: juris, Juv. 1, 128: vir movendarum lacrimarum peritissimus, Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 3: definiendi, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 60.—

(g). With abl.: jure peritus, Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 62 P.: jure peritissimus, Aur. Vict. Epit. 19: quis jure peritior? Cic. Clu. 38, 107: peritus bello, Vell. 2, 29, 3: peritus disciplinā militari, Gell. 4, 8, 2: arte fabricā peritus, Dig. 33, 7, 19.—

(d). With ad: ad usum et disciplinam peritus, Cic. Font. 15, 43: et ad respondendum et ad cavendum peritus, id. de Or. 1, 48, 212: ad prospicienda cavendaque pericula, Just. 31, 2, 2.—(e) With in and abl.: sive in amore rudis, sive peritus erit, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 82.—(z) With de: de agriculturā peritissimus, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10.—(h) With acc. (poet.): arma virumque peritus, Aus. Epigr. 137.—(q) With inf. or object-clause (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): soli cantare periti Arcades, Verg. E. 10, 32: peritus obsequi, Tac. Agr. 8: urentes oculos inhibere perita, Pers. 2, 34: rex peritus, fortius adversus Romanos aurum esse quam ferrum, Flor. 3, 1, 7.—Hence, subst.: pĕrītissĭ-mus, i, m., a man of extraordinary skill: cum discendi causā duobus peritissimis operam dedisset, etc., Cic. Brut. 42, 154.—

II. Transf., of abstract things, skilfully constructed, clever: peritae fabulae, Aus. Ep. 16, 92.—Hence, adv.: pĕrītē, in an experienced manner, skilfully, expertly, cleverly: quod institutum perite a Numa, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29: perite et ornate dicere, id. de Or. 2, 2, 5; Gell. 17, 5 fin.: callide et perite versari in aliquā re, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 48: distributa perite, id. ib. 2, 19, 81.— Comp.: peritius fit aliquid ab aliquo, Sen. Ep. 90, 33.—Sup.: aliquid peritissime et callidissime venditare, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, 135: disputare, Val. Max. 8, 11, 1: suavissime et peritissime legere, Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 3.