death Copy link Outline 1. more, mortis, f. (the most gen. term)2. lētum (chiefly poet.)3. nex, nĕcis, f. (violent death)4. fūnus, ēris, n. (poet.)5. ŏbĭtus, ūs (very freq. of death in the ordinary course of things)6. dēcessus, ūs (= obitus)7. excessus., ūs8. intĕrĭtus, ūs (only of violent d.) • death: 1. more, mortis, f. (the most gen. term): d. is the bounding line of (all) things, m. ultima linea rerum est, Hor.: a speedy d., m. cita, Hor.: sudden d., m. repentina, Quint.; subita, Curt.: a premature d., m. immatura, Cic.: a most cruel d., m. acerbissima, Sulp. ap. Cic.: to inflict d. on any one, alicui m. afferre, id.; inferre, Cic.; aliquem ad m. dare, Pl.; morti dare, Hor.: v. to kill: to inflict d. on oneself, mortem sibi consciscere, Caes.: v. suicide: to condemn to d., capitis or capite damnare, Cic. (which however is used of civil death or deprivation of citizenship): punishment of d., capitalis poena (like capitis damnare), Suet.; capitis supplicium, id.; ultimum supplicium, Tac.: to meet d., morte (al. mortem) occumbere, Cic.; morti occumbere, Virg.: v. to die. 2. lētum (chiefly poet.): the unforeseen violence of d., vis improvisa leti, Hor.: to die an inglorious d., turpi l. perire, Cic.: to visit any one with d., aliquem leto afficere, Nep.: I snatched myself from d., eripui me leto, Virg. (In the best authors the use of letum is confined to poetry and rhetorical passages.) 3. nex, nĕcis, f. (violent death): to have power of life and death over one's countrymen, vitae necisque in suos habere potestatem, Caes.: to put any one to an unjust d., alicui n. injustam afferre, Cic.: to consign to d., neci dedere, demittere, dare, Virg. (N.B. In later authors nex is used for any kind of death: Suet.: Just.) 4. fūnus, ēris, n. (poet.): to whelm in cruel d., funere mergere acerbo, Virg.: also f. crudele, Ov.: v. funeral. 5. ŏbĭtus, ūs (very freq. of death in the ordinary course of things): after the king's death, post regis ob., Cic.: Caes. 6. dēcessus, ūs (= obitus): Cic. 7. excessus., ūs: Tac.: Suet. (The last three words have a milder expression than the preceding ones.) 8. intĕrĭtus, ūs (only of violent d.): Cic.: v. destruction. Also in poet. language, Orcus, fātum, infĕri, etc., may often be used: v. grave (subs.). Phr.: the day of d., dies supremus, Cic.; dies niger (poet.), Prop.: the sleep of d., perpetuus sopor, Hor.: in the agonies of d., mŏrĭbundus, Cic.: on one's d.-bed, moriens, id. (moribundus being an intensive word, denotes the nearer approach of death): to bleed to d., *sanguine emisso mori: if by an opening in the veins, venis exsolutis mori, cf. Tac. 16., 17, 19: to fret oneself to d., mori curis, Tib.: to hug an old death's head, mortem amplexari, Pl.