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• bury:

I. To inter a corpse:

1. sĕpĕlĭo, īvi, and ĭi, sĕpultum, 4 (the most usual term; including all modes of sepulture): arise and b. your son, surge et sepeli natum, Cic.: to b. bodies, corpora s., Liv.: to b. bones, ossa s., Ov.
2. hŭmo, 1 (to b. in the ground; but also in gen. to inter): to b. a dead man, mortuum h., Cic.: Virg.: to be covered with earth and b.'d, obrutos terra humari, Plin.
3. condo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (prop. to store away; hence, with some qualifying word): to b. the dead in a tomb, mortuos sepulcro c., Cic.: to b. the bones of a parent in the earth, ossa parentis terra c., Virg.
4. effĕro, extŭli, ēlātum, 3 (lit. to carry out; i. e. to attend to the grave): Maximus b.'d his son who had been consul, Maximus extulit filium consularem, Cic.: Hor.
5. pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to place; chiefly poet., and in epitaphs): Lucr: Virg.
6. compōno, 3: I have b.'d all my relations, cognatos omnes composui, Hor.: Tac.
7. dēfŏdĭo, fōdi, fossum, 3 (prob. never of proper interment): to b. a slain guest, hospitem necatum d., Pl.: to b. a Vestal virgin alive, Vestalem vivam d., Plin. Ep. (cf. Ov. M. 4, 239).
8. infŏdĭo, 3 (similar to No. 7): to b. bodies in the earth, corpora terrae in., Virg.: Nep.
9. contĕgo, texi, tectum, 3 (to cover): to b. those who had fallen in battle in one grave, qui in acie ceciderant eos uno tumulo c., Liv.: Ov. Phr.: Simonides seemed to be warned by the man whom he had b.'d, Simonides moneri visus est ab eo quem sepultura affecerat, Cic.

II. To cover or overwhelm:

1. obrŭo, ui, ŭtum, 3: to b. a treasure, thesaurum ob., Cic.: to b. lupine-seed, lupinum ob., Col.: night b.s the earth in shadows, terram nox obruit umbris, Lucr. Fig.: to b. adversity as it were in perpetual oblivion, adversa quasi perpetua oblivione ob., Cic.: v. to overwhelm.
2. sĕpĕlĭo, 4 (fig.): these things were b.'d in the lap of your consulship, haec sunt in gremio sepulta consulatus tui, Cic.: they march into the city b.'d in sleep and wine, invadunt urbem somno vinoque sepultam, Virg.
3. dēfŏdĭo, 3: to b. a razor in the comitium, novaculam in comitium d., Cic.: Liv.
4. infŏdĭo, 3: the stakes were entirely buried in the earth, taleae totae in terram infodiebantur, Caes.
5. abdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: he b.'d the sword in his side, lateri abdidit ensem, Virg.: Lucr. Phr.: to b. in perpetual oblivion the remembrance of discord, memoriam discordiae oblivione sempiterna delere, Cic.: v. TO BLOT OUT.

III. To withdraw from public life: abdo, 3: he has b.'d himself in the heart of Macedonia, abdidit se in intimam Macedoniam, Cic.: I b. myself in my library, abdo me in bibliothecam, Cic.: to b. oneself in an island, se in insulam ab., Tac.

• BURY

sepelire (general term), humare (both, but especially sepelire, like θάπτειν, of any mode of disposing of a corpse: quod nunc communiter in omnibus sepultis ponitur, ut humati dicantur, id erat proprium tum in iis, quos humus injecta contegeret, Cic., Legg., 2, 22, 56): humo tegere: terra, humo contegere (bury): in sepulcro condere or condere only (poetical and post-Augustan tumulare, contumulare): corpus alicujus tumulo inferre (Ter.): funere efferre with or without foras (to carry out for burial) infodere (shuffle into the ground). To bury one alive, vivum aliquem defodere: to be buried alive, vivum terra obrui. To bury with military honors, militari honesto funere aliquem humare.
To put in the ground, infodere (in terram), defodere (in terram), obruere (terra).
To overwhelm, obruere, opprimere: to bury in oblivion, oblivione obruere: to be buried in oblivion, aeterna oblivione obrutum esse: to be buried in the ruins, ruina alicujus rei (domus, etc.) opprimi: in the waves, undis obrui, hauriri.
To hide, etc., sepelire; ponere (dismiss; e.g., amorem): obruere. Bury in oblivion, oblivione obniere. To bury one’s self in one’s country seat, rua se abdere. More under FUNERAL.

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