danger Copy link Outline 1. pĕrīcŭlum (strictly a trial of some kind)2. discrīmen, ĭnis, n. (a crisis, critical circumstances) • danger: 1. pĕrīcŭlum (strictly a trial of some kind): often joined with discrimen: v. infr.: the safety of the allies is brought into the greatest d. and risk, salus sociorum in summum p. ac discrimen vocatur, Cic.: to incur d., pericula subire, suscipere, ingredi, Cic.: to bring into extreme d. of one's life, in summum capitis periculum arcessere, Cic.: to expose to d., periculo offerre, Cic.; in periculum projicere, Virg.: to rescue from d., ex periculo extrahere, et eripere, Cic.: to be in d., in periculo versari, Cic.; in p. esse, Nep.: to desert in the very crisis of d., in ipso periculi discrimine destituere, Liv.: to ward off d. from the state, rempublicam a p. prohibere; periculum a repub. propulsare, depellere, Cic.: to bring any one into d., p. facere alicui, Sall.: d.s threaten me, p. intenduntur mihi, Cic.; conflantur (are stirred up against me), Caes.: there is no d. that, etc., non est periculum ne, etc., Cic.: simly, summum est p. ne, etc., id. 2. discrīmen, ĭnis, n. (a crisis, critical circumstances): to put a man's life in d., aliquem in d. vitae (or capitis) adducere, Cic.: to run into d., discrimini occursare, Tac.: the greatest and almost extreme d., maximum periculum et extremum paene d.. Cic. Phr.: your property is in d. when your neighbour's house is on fire, tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet, Hor.: my life is in d., mea in dubio vita est, Ter.: to be in d. of being poisoned, veneno periclitari, Justin: to bring into imminent d., in praeceps dare, Liv.; in extremum adducere, Tac.; ad extremum perducere casum, Caes.: the patient is in great d., aeger in praecipiti est, Cels.: to be in d., in lubrico versari, Cic.: to be out of d., extra metum positum esse, Sen.: my life is in d., vita mea infesta est, Cic.: would that my life only were in d., utinam meo solum capite decernerem, Cic.: he was in great d. of being killed, haud multum abfuit quin interficeretur, Liv.: to be in another man's "danger," alieni arbitrii esse, Suet.; esse in regno et ditione alicujus, Cic.