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IV. Properties of the Human Body
8. Death
Оглавление(de) vita decedere or merely decedere– to depart this life.
(ex) vita excedere, ex vita abire– to depart this life.
de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare– to depart this life.
mortem (diem supremum) obire– to depart this life.
supremo vitae die– on one's last day.
animam edere or efflare– to give up the ghost.
extremum vitae spiritum edere– to give up the ghost.
animam agere– to be at one's last gasp.
mors immatura or praematura– an untimely death.
mature decedere– to die young.
subita morte exstingui– to be cut off by sudden death.
necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori– to die a natural death.
morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi– to die a natural death.
debitum naturae reddere 54 (Nep. Reg. 1) – to die a natural death.
mortem sibi consciscere 55– to commit suicide.
se vita privare– to take one's own life.
manus, vim sibi afferre– to lay hands on oneself.
vitae finem facere– to put an end to one's life.
talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13) – such was the end of… (used of a violent death).
mortem oppetere– to meet death (by violence).
mortem occumbere pro patria– to die for one's country.
sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere– to shed one's blood for one's fatherland.
vitam profundere pro patria– to sacrifice oneself for one's country.
se morti offerre pro salute patriae– to sacrifice oneself for one's country.
dare venenum in pane– to give a person poison in bread.
venenum sumere, bibere– to take poison.
veneno sibi mortem consciscere– to poison oneself.
poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31) – to drain the cup of poison.
potestas vitae necisque– power over life and death.
plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere– to inflict a death-blow.
e or de medio tollere– to remove a person.
perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26) – I'm undone! it's all up with me!
54
sua morte defungi or mori is late Latin, cf. Inscr. Orell. 3453, debitum naturae persolvit.
55
se interficere, se occidere, se necare are rare. During the classic period, when suicide was not common, ipse is often added – e.g. Crassum se ipsum interemisse (Cic. Scaur. 2. 16), Lucretia se ipsa interemit (Fin. 2. 20. 66); but later, when suicide had become frequent, se interemit; nonnulli semet interemerunt (Suet. Iul. 89), etc., occur commonly.
