SUICIDE Copy link • SUICIDESelf-destruction, mors voluntaria: mors arcessita (Plin.): mors quaesita or sumta (Tac.): finis voluntarius (Tac.). To commit suicide, mortem or necem sibi consciscere; mortem or vim sibi inferre; vim afferre vitae suae; manu sibi exhaurire vitam; manus sibi afferre; se ipsum vita privare; vitae durius consulere; sese morte multare; se ipsum interimere; se interficere; ipsum interemtorem sui fieri (Sen., Ep., 76, 12); voluntaria morte perire (Verg., Paterculus); de se statuere (Tac.): ☞ se interficere occurs in Sulpic. in Cic., Epp. Fam., 4, 12, 2, and Liv., 31, 18, 7: Cic., also, has Crassum suapte manu interfectum, Or., 3, 3, 10: se occidere is quoted by Quintilian from a lost oration of Cic., cum ipse sese conaretur occidere; Quint., 5, 10, 69. To drive anybody to commit suicide, aliquem ad voluntariam mortem perducere or propellere; aliquem cogere, ut vita se ipse privet: to dissuade anybody from committing suicide, efficere, ut manus aliquis a se abstineat. A person who commits self-destruction, interemtor sui (Sen.), or qui sua manu mortem sibi consciscit. Vid: the preceding meaning.