Pernicies, & tempestas, barathrumq, macelli. Hor. Vini pernicies, lymphæ. Catul. Labes & pernicies prouinciæ. Cice. One that greatly dishonesteth and hurteth the countrie.Pernicies Reipub. & exitium vrbis. Cic.The destruction ofthe common weale and vndoing of the citie.Citra perniciem. Plin. Cum detrimento bonorum, & communi omnium pernicie.Cic.Pestis & pernicies.Cic.Pernicies & Salus, contraria.Cic.Grauis pernicies. Col. Insanabilis. Liu. Accessit fortunis per nicies, Vide ACCEDO.Coniuncta cum magna calamitate Reip. pernicies. Ci. Depellere perniciem patria. Ci. To saue his country from destruction.Facere perniciem alicui. Ta cit. To worke mischiefe to one.Ferre perniciem. Hor. Gliscens pernicies. Tac. Incumbere ad vel in perniciem alicuius, Vide INCVMBO.Instructus ad perniciem. Tere. Wel appointed to vndoe one and bring one to naught.Inuenire sibi perniciem.Tacit.To be occasion of his owne destruction.Vertere in perniciem. Tac. To turne to mischef or vndoing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pernĭcĭes, ēi (old form of the gen. pernicii or pernici, Sisenn. ap. Gell. 9, 14, 12, and ap. Non. 486, 30; Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131, acc. to Gell. 9, 14, 19, and acc. to Non. 486, 28. But Charis., p. 53 P., gives for the passages of Cicero above cited the form pernicies; cf., also, Diom. p. 281 P.—Dat. pernicie, Liv. 5, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.: pernicii, Nep. 8, 2; v. also, permities), f. [perneco], destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, disaster, calamity (syn.: exitium, labes). I.Lit.: quantā in pernicie siet, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 29: de pernicie populi Romani et exitio hujus urbis, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: videbam perniciem meam cum magnā calamitate rei publicae esse conjunctam, id. ib. 1, 5, 11: perniciem rei publicae moliens, id. ib. 1, 2, 5: cum tuā peste ac pernicie cumque eorum exitio, qui, etc., id. ib. 1, 13, 33: incumbere ad perniciem alicujus, id. Mur. 28, 59: in apertam perniciem incurrere, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: ad perniciem vocari, id. de Or. 2, 9, 35: Romanos inferendae pernicii causā venisse, Sisenn. ap. Gell. and Non. 1. 1.: alicui perniciem machinari, Sall. C. 18, 7: perniciem invenire sibi et aliis, Tac. A. 1, 74: pernicies in accusatorem vertit, id. ib. 11, 37; id. H. 3, 27: in nepotum Perniciem, Hor. C. 2, 13, 4.—II.Transf., concr., a person or thing that is ruinous or baleful, destruction, ruin, bane, pest: egredere, erilis pernicies, ex aedibus, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 3 Lorenz (Ritschl, permicies): perlecebrae, pernicies, adulescentum exitium, id. As. 1, 2, 7: legirupa, pernicies adulescentum, id. Ps. 1, 3, 130; cf.: leno, pernicies communis adulescentium, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 34: pernicies provinciae Siciliae, i. e.
Verres
, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 2: illam perniciem exstinxit ac sustulit, i. e.