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|lshtext=<b>cădo</b>: cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (<br /><b>I</b> [[part]]. pres. gen. plur. cadentūm, Verg. A. 10, 674; 12, 410), v. n. cf. Sanscr. çad-, to [[fall]] [[away]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br /> <b>A</b> In an extended [[sense]], to be driven or carried by one's [[weight]] from a [[higher]] to a [[lower]] [[point]], to [[fall]] [[down]], be precipitated, [[sink]] [[down]], go [[down]], [[sink]], [[fall]] (so [[mostly]] [[poet]].; in [[prose]], in [[place]] of it, the compounds decĭdo, occĭdo, excĭdo, etc.; cf. also ruo, [[labor]]; opp. [[surgo]], sto): tum arbores in te cadent, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 25: (aves) praecipites cadunt in terram aut in aquam, [[fall]] [[headlong]] to the [[earth]] or [[into]] the [[water]], Lucr. 6, 745; cf. id. 6, 828; imitated by Verg.: (apes) praecipites cadunt, Verg. G. 4, 80: [[nimbus]], Ut picis e [[caelo]] demissum [[flumen]], in undas Sic cadit, etc., Lucr. 6, 258: cadit in terras vis flammea, id. 2, 215; so [[with]] in, id. 2, 209; 4, 1282; 6, 1006; 6, 1125; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64: in patrios [[pedes]], Ov. F. 2, 832.—With a [[different]] [[meaning]]: omnes [[plerumque]] cadunt in [[vulnus]], in the [[direction]] of, [[towards]] [[their]] [[wound]], Lucr. 4, 1049; cf.: prolapsa in [[vulnus]] moribunda cecidit, Liv. 1, 58, 11: cadit in [[vultus]], Ov. M. 5, 292: in [[pectus]], id. ib. 4, 579.—Less freq. [[with]] ad: ad terras, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216: ad terram, Quint. 5, 10, 84.—The [[place]] from [[which]] is designated by ab, ex, de: a summo cadere, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15: a [[mento]] cadit [[manus]], Ov. F. 3, 20: aves ab [[alto]], Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112: ut cadat ([[avis]]) e regione loci, Lucr. 6, 824: ex arbore, Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 148; Dig. 50, 16, 30, § 4; 18, 1, 80, § 2: cecidisse de equo dicitur, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: cadere de equo, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 125 (for [[which]] Cæsar, [[Nepos]], and Pliny [[employ]] decidere): de manibus [[arma]] cecidissent, Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 21; cf.: de manibus civium delapsa [[arma]] ipsa ceciderunt, id. Off. 1, 22, 77: cadunt altis de montibus umbrae, Verg. E. 1, 84: de [[caelo]], Lucr. 5, 791; Ov. M. 2, 322: de matre (i. e. nasci), Claud. in Rufin. 1, 92.—With per: per [[inane]] profundum, Lucr. 2, 222: per aquas, id. 2, 230: per salebras altaque saxa, Mart. 11, 91; cf.: imbre per indignas [[usque]] cadente genas, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 18.—With the adverb altius: altius [[atque]] cadant summotis nubibus imbres, and poured [[forth]] from a greater [[height]], etc., Verg. E. 6, 38.—And absol.: folia [[nunc]] cadunt, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 24; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12; Lucr. 6, 297: ut pluere in multis regionibus et cadere imbres, id. 6, 415: cadens nix, id. 3, 21; 3, 402: [[velut]] si [[prolapsus]] cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12: quaeque ita concus sa est, ut jam casura putetur, Ov. P. 2, 3, 59: cadentem Sustinuisse, id. M. 8, 148: saepius, of epileptics, Plin. Val. 12, 58: casuri, si [[leviter]] excutiantur, flosculi, Quint. 12, 10, 73.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp.<br /> <b>a</b> Of [[heavenly]] bodies, to [[decline]], [[set]] (opp. [[orior]]), Ov. F. 1, 295: oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem, Verg. A. 4, 480; 8, 59; Tac. G. 45: soli subjecta cadenti arva, Avien. Descr. Orb. 273; cf. Tac. Agr. 12: quā (nocte) [[tristis]] [[Orion]] cadit, Hor. Epod. 10, 10: [[Arcturus]] cadens, id. C. 3, 1, 27.—<br /> <b>b</b> To [[separate]] from [[something]] by falling, to [[fall]] [[off]] or [[away]], [[fall]] [[out]], to [[drop]] [[off]], be [[shed]], etc.: nam tum dentes mihi cadebant [[primulum]], Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 57: dentes cadere imperat [[aetas]], Lucr. 5, 671; Sen. Ep. 12, 3; 83, 3: pueri qui [[primus]] ceciderit [[dens]], Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41: [[barba]], Verg. E. 1, 29: [[quam]] [[multa]] in silvis autumni frigore [[primo]] Lapsa cadunt folia, id. A. 6, 310; cf. Cat. 11, 22; Hor. A. P. 61: lanigeris gregibus Sponte suā lanae cadunt, Ov. M. 7, 541: saetae, id. ib. 14, 303: quadrupedibus [[pilum]] cadere, Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231: poma, Ov. M. 7, 586: cecidere manu quas legerat, herbae, id. ib. 14, 350: elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae, id. ib. 9, 571: et [[colus]] et [[fusus]] digitis cecidere remissis, id. ib. 4, 229.—<br /> <b>c</b> Of a [[stream]], to [[fall]], [[empty]] itself: [[amnis]] Aretho cadit in [[sinum]] maris, Liv. 38, 4, 3; 38, 13, 6; 44, 31, 4: flumina in pontum cadent, Sen. Med. 406: flumina in Hebrum cadentia, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 50: [[tandem]] in alterum amnem cadit, Curt. 6, 4, 6.—<br /> <b>d</b> Of [[dice]], to be thrown or [[cast]]; to [[turn]] up: illud, [[quod]] cecidit [[forte]], Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 23 sq.; Liv. 2, 12, 16.—<br /> <b>e</b> Alicui (alicujus) ad [[pedes]], to [[fall]] at one's feet in [[supplication]], etc. ([[post]]-[[class]]. for [[abicio]], [[proicio]]), Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 19; Eutr. 4, 7; Aug. Serm. 143, 4; Vulg. Joan. 11, 32 al.—<br /> <b>f</b> Super [[collum]] allcujus, to [[embrace]] ([[late]] Lat.), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20.—<br /> <b>B</b> In a [[more]] restricted [[sense]].<br /> <b>1</b> To [[fall]], to [[fall]] [[down]], [[drop]], [[fall]] to, be precipitated, etc.; to [[sink]] [[down]], to [[sink]], [[settle]] (the [[usual]] [[class]]. signif. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]): cadere in [[plano]], Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 17 sq.: [[deorsum]], Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89: [[uspiam]], Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12: [[Brutus]], [[velut]] si [[prolapsus]] cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12; cf. id. 5, 21, 16; 1, 58, 12: dum timent, ne [[aliquando]] cadant, [[semper]] jacent, Quint. 8, 5, 32: sinistrā manu [[sinum]] ad ima crura deduxit ([[Caesar]]), quo honestius caderet, Suet. Caes. 82: cadere [[supinus]], id. Aug. 43 fin.: in [[pectus]] [[pronus]], Ov. M. 4, 579: cadunt toti montes, Lucr. 6, 546: [[radicitus]] exturbata ([[pinus]]) prona cadit, Cat. 64, 109: concussae cadunt urbes, Lucr. 5, 1236: casura [[moenia]] Troum, Ov. M. 13, 375; id. H. 13, 71: multaque [[praeterea]] ceciderunt [[moenia]] magnis motibus in terris, Lucr. 6, 588: languescunt omnia membra; bracchia palpebraeque cadunt, [[their]] [[arms]] and eyelids [[fall]], id. 4, 953; 3, 596; so, ceciderunt [[artus]], id. 3, 453: sed [[tibi]] [[tamen]] oculi, [[voltus]], verba cecidissent, Cic. Dom. 52, 133; cf.: oculos vigiliā fatigatos cadentesque in opere [[detineo]], Sen. Ep. 8, 1: patriae cecidere [[manus]], Verg. A. 6, 33: [[cur]] facunda [[parum]] [[decoro]] Inter verba cadit [[lingua]] silentio? Hor. C. 4, 1, 36: cecidere illis animique manusque, Ov. M. 7, 347; Val. Fl. 1, 300; cf. II. F. [[infra]].—<br /> <b>2</b> In a pregn. signif. (as in [[most]] langg., to [[fall]] in [[battle]], to [[die]]), to [[fall]] so as to be [[unable]] to [[rise]], to [[fall]] [[dead]], to [[fall]], [[die]] (opp. vivere), Prop. 2 (3), 28, 42 (usu. of those [[who]] [[die]] in [[battle]]; [[hence]] [[most]] freq. in the histt.): hostes crebri cadunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 79 sq.: aut in acie cadendum fuit aut in aliquas insidias incidendum, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 3; Curt. 4, 1, 28; Ov. M. 7, 142: ut cum dignitate [[potius]] cadamus [[quam]] cum ignominiā serviamus, Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35: [[pauci]] de nostris cadunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 15; id. B. C. 3, 53: [[optimus]] [[quisque]] cadere aut sauciari, Sall. J. 92, 8; so id. C. 60, 6; id. J. 54, 10; Nep. Paus. 1, 2; id. Thras. 2, 7; id. Dat. 1, 2; 6, 1; 8, 3; Liv. 10, 35, 15 and 19; 21, 7, 10; 23, 21, 7; 29, 14, 8; Tac. G. 33; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 27; Ov. M. 7, 142: per [[acies]], Tac. A. 1, 2: pro patriā, Quint. 2, 15, 29: [[ante]] diem, Verg. A. 4, 620: bipenni, Ov. M. 12, 611: ense, Val. Fl. 1, 812.—Not in [[battle]]: inque pio cadit [[officio]], Ov. M. 6, 250.—With abl. of [[means]] or [[instrument]]: suoque Marte (i. e. suā manu) cadunt, Ov. M. 3, 123; cf. Tac. A. 3, 42 fin.: suā manu cecidit, [[fell]] by his [[own]] [[hand]], id. ib. 15, 71: exitu voluntario, id. H. 1, 40: muliebri fraude cadere, id. A. 2, 71: cecidere justā Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae [[Flamma]] Chimaerae, Hor. C. 4, 2, 14 sq.: manu femineā, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1179: femineo Marte, Ov. M. 12, 610.—With abl. of [[agent]] [[with]] ab: torqueor, [[infesto]] ne vir ab hoste cadat, should be [[slain]] by, Ov. H. 9, 36; so id. M. 5, 192; Suet. Oth. 5: a centurione volneribus adversis [[tamquam]] in pugnā, Tac. A. 16, 9.—And [[without]] ab: barbarae [[postquam]] cecidere turmae Thessalo victore, Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; imitated by Claudian, IV. Cons. Hon. 89; Grat. Cyn. 315.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of victims, to be [[slain]] or offered, to be sacrificed, to [[fall]] ([[poet]].): [[multa]] [[tibi]] [[ante]] aras nostrā cadet [[hostia]] dextrā, Verg. A. 1, 334: si [[tener]] pleno cadit [[haedus]] [[anno]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 4, 1, 15; Ov. M. 7, 162; 13, 615; id. F. 4, 653.—<br /> <b>3</b> In mal. [[part]]., = [[succumbo]], to [[yield]] to, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 104; Tib. 4, 10, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 3, 7.—<br /> <b>4</b> Matre cadens, [[just]] [[born]] ([[poet]].), Val. Fl. 1, 355; cf. of the [[custom]] of laying the [[new]]-[[born]] [[child]] at the [[father]]'s feet: tellure cadens. Stat. S. 1, 2, 209; 5, 5, 69.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br /> <b>A</b> To [[come]] or [[fall]] under, to [[fall]], to be [[subject]] or [[exposed]] to [[something]] ([[more]] [[rare]] [[than]] its [[compound]] incidere, [[but]] [[class]].); constr. [[usually]] [[with]] sub or in, [[sometimes]] [[with]] ad: sub [[sensus]] cadere nostros, i. e. to be perceived by the senses, Lucr. 1, 448: sub sensum, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48: in cernendi sensum. id. Tim. 3: sub oculos, id. Or. 3, 9: in conspectum, to [[become]] [[visible]], id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50: sub aurium mensuram, id. Or. 20, 67: [[sponte]] suā ([[genus]] humanum) cecidit sub leges artaque jura, subjected itself to [[law]] and the [[force]] of [[right]], Lucr. 5, 1146; so id. 3, 848: ad servitia, Liv. 1, 40, 3: utrorum ad regna, Lucr. 3, 836; so, sub [[imperium]] dicionemque Romanorum, Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2): in potestatem unius, id. Att. 8, 3, 2: in cogitationem, to [[suggest]] itself to the thoughts, id. N. D. 1, 9, 21: in hominum disceptationem, id. de Or. 2, 2, 5: in deliberationem, id. Off. 1, 3, 9: in offensionem alicujus, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: in morbum, id. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: in suspitionem alicujus, Nep. Paus. 2, 6: in calumniam, Quint. 9, 4, 57: [[abrupte]] cadere in narrationem, id. 4, 1, 79: in [[peccatum]], Aug. in Psa. 65, 13.—<br /> <b>B</b> In gen.: in or sub aliquem or aliquid, to belong to [[any]] [[object]], to be in [[accordance]] [[with]], [[agree]] [[with]], [[refer]] to, be [[suitable]] to, to [[fit]], [[suit]], [[become]] (so esp. freq. in philos. and rhet. lang.): non cadit in hos [[mores]], non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam, non in hunc hominem ista [[suspitio]], Cic. Sull. 27, 75: cadit [[ergo]] in [[bonum]] virum mentiri, emolumenti sui causā? id. Off. 3, 20, 81; so id. Cael. 29, 69; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56: haec Academica... in personas non cadebant, id. Att. 13, 19, 5: qui [[pedes]] in orationem non cadere quī possunt? id. Or. 56, 188: [[neque]] in unam formam cadunt omnia, id. ib. 11, 37; 57, 191; 27, 95; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 3, 7, 6; 4, 2, 37; 4, 2, 93; 6, prooem. § 5; 7, 2, 30 and 31; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 82: heu, cadit in quemquam [[tantum]] [[scelus]]? Verg. E. 9, 17; Cic. Or. 27, 95; 11, 37; Quint. 3, 5, 16; 3, 6, 91; 5, 10, 30; 6, 3, 52; 7, 2, 31; 9, 1, 7; 9, 3, 92: hoc [[quoque]] in rerum naturam cadit, ut, etc., id. 2, 17, 32: in iis rebus, quae sub eandem rationem cadunt, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 8, 3, 56.—<br /> <b>C</b> To [[fall]] [[upon]] a [[definite]] [[time]] ([[rare]]): considera, ne in alienissimum [[tempus]] cadat [[adventus]] [[tuus]], Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 4: in id [[saeculum]] Romuli cecidit [[aetas]], cum, etc., id. Rep. 2, 10, 18.—Hence, in [[mercantile]] lang., of payments, to [[fall]] [[due]]: in eam diem cadere (were [[due]]) nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4.—<br /> <b>D</b> (Acc. to I. 1. e.) Alicui, to [[fall]] to one (as by [[lot]]), [[fall]] to one's [[lot]], [[happen]] to one, [[befall]]; and absol. (for accidere), to [[happen]], [[come]] to [[pass]], [[occur]], [[result]], [[turn]] [[out]], [[fall]] [[out]] (esp. in an [[unexpected]] [[manner]]; cf. [[accido]]; [[very]] freq. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]).<br /> <b>1</b> Alicui: [[nihil]] ipsis jure incommodi cadere possit, Cic. Quint. 16, 51: hoc cecidit mihi [[peropportune]], [[quod]], etc., id. de Or. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 3, 1: insperanti mihi, cecidit, ut, etc., id. de Or. 1, 21, 96; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; id. Mil. 30, 81: mihi omnia [[semper]] honesta et jucunda ceciderunt, id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: sunt, quibus ad portas cecidit [[custodia]] sorti, Verg. G. 4, 165: haec aliis maledicta cadant, Tib. 1, 6, 85: neu [[tibi]] pro [[vano]] verba benigna cadunt, Prop. 1, 10, 24: ut illis... [[voluptas]] cadat dura [[inter]] [[saepe]] pericla, Hor. S. 1, 2, 40: verba cadentia, uttered at [[random]], id. Ep. 1, 18, 12.—<br /> <b>2</b> Ab sol., Afran. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 195 P.; Cic. Leg .2, 13, 33: verebar [[quorsum]] id casurum esset, [[how]] it would [[turn]] [[out]], id. Att. 3, 24: [[aliorsum]] vota ceciderunt, Flor. 2, 4, 5: cum [[aliter]] res cecidisset ac putasses, had turned [[out]] [[differently]] from [[what]] [[was]] [[expected]], Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 1: [[sane]] ita cadebat ut vellem, id. Att. 3, 7, 1; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 73, Nep. Milt. 2, 5 Dähne: cum, quae tum [[maxime]] acciderant, casura praemonens, a furioso [[incepto]] eos deterreret, Liv. 36, 34, 3; 22, 40, 3; 35, 13, 9; 38, 46, 6; Plin. [[Pan]]. 31, 1; Tac. A. 2, 80; 6, 8; Suet. Tib. 14 al.; Verg. A. 2, 709: ut omnia [[fortiter]] fiant, [[feliciter]] cadant, Sen. Suas. 2, p. 14: [[multa]]. [[fortuito]] in [[melius]] casura, Tac. A. 2, 77.—With adj.: si non omnia caderent secunda, Caes. B. C. 3, 73: vota cadunt, i.e. rata sunt, are [[fulfilled]], realized, Tib. 2, 2, 17 (diff. from Prop. 1, 17, 4; v. under F.).—<br /> <b>3</b> With in and acc.: nimia [[illa]] [[libertas]] et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit (cf. μεταβάλλει), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—Esp.: in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, [[fail]], be or [[remain]] [[fruitless]]: omnia in cassum cadunt, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166: ad irritum cadens [[spes]], Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26: in irritum, id. A. 15, 39; cf. [[with]] [[irritus]], adj.: ut irrita promissa ejus caderent, Liv. 2, 31, 5: [[haud]] irritae cecidere [[minae]], id. 6, 35, 10.—<br /> <b>E</b> To [[fall]], to [[become]] [[less]] (in [[strength]], [[power]], [[worth]], etc.), to [[decrease]], [[diminish]], [[lessen]]: cadunt [[vires]], Lucr. 5, 410: mercenarii milites pretia militiae casura in [[pace]] [[aegre]] ferebant, Liv. 34, 36, 7.—More freq. in an extended signif. (acc. to I. B. 2.),<br /> <b>F</b> To [[lose]] all one's [[strength]], [[worth]], [[value]], etc., to [[fall]], to [[perish]], [[vanish]], [[decay]], [[cease]].<br /> <b>1</b> In gen.: [[pellis]] [[item]] cecidit, [[vestis]] contempta ferina. declined in [[value]], Lucr. 5, 1417: turpius est [[enim]] [[privatim]] cadere (i. e. fortunis everti) [[quam]] [[publice]], Cic. Att. 16, 15, 6; so id. Fam. 6, 10, 2: [[atque]] ea [[quidem]] tua [[laus]] [[pariter]] cum re publicā cecidit, id. Off. 2, 13, 45: tanta [[civitas]], si cadet, id. Har. Resp. 20, 42: huc cecidisse Germanici [[exercitus]] gloriam, ut, etc., Tac. H. 3, 13: non [[tibi]] ingredienti fines ira cecidit? Liv. 2, 40, 7; Pers. 5, 91: [[amicitia]] nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur, Cic. Lael. 7, 23: [[animus]], to [[fail]], Liv. 1, 11, 3; Ov. M. 11, 537; cf. id. ib. 7, 347: non debemus ita cadere animis, etc., to [[lose]] [[courage]], be [[disheartened]], Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4: tam [[graviter]], id. Off. 1, 21, 73; cf. Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—Esp., to [[fail]] in [[speaking]]: [[magnus]] [[orator]] est... minimeque in [[lubrico]] versabitur, et si [[semel]] constiterit [[numquam]] cadet, Cic. Or. 28, 98: [[alte]] [[enim]] cadere non potest, id. ib. —So in the lang. of the jurists, causā or formulā, to [[lose]] one's [[cause]] or [[suit]]: causā cadere, Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 57; so id. de Or. 1, 36, 166 sq.; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1; Quint. 7, 3, 17; Luc. 2, 554; Suet. Calig. 39: formulā cadere, Sen. Ep. 48, 10; Quint. 3, 6, 69.—With in: ita quemquam cadere in judicio, ut, etc., Cic. Mur. 28, 58.—Also absol.: cadere, Tac. H. 4, 6; and: criminibus repetundarum, id. ib. 1, 77: conjurationis crimine, id. A. 6, 14: ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum, Ov. M. 13, 435: omniaque ingrato litore vota cadunt, i. e. irrita sunt, [[remain]] [[unfulfilled]], [[unaccomplished]], Prop. 1, 17, 4 (diff. from Tib. 2, 2, 17; v. [[above]], D. 2.); cf.: at mea nocturno verba cadunt zephyro, Prop. 1, 16, 34: [[multa]] renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae [[nunc]] sunt in honore vocabula, to [[fall]] [[into]] [[disuse]], [[grow]] [[out]] of [[date]], Hor. A. P. 70 —Hence of [[theatrical]] representations, to [[fall]] [[through]], to [[fail]], be condemned (opp. [[stare]], to [[win]] [[applause]]; the [[fig]]. [[derived]] from combatants): [[securus]] cadat an [[recto]] stet [[fabula]] talo, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176.—Impers.. [[periculum]] est, ne cadatur, Aug. [[Don]]. Persev. 1.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp. of the [[wind]] (opp. [[surgo]]), to [[abate]], [[subside]], [[die]] [[away]], etc.: cadit Eurus et umida surgunt Nubila, Ov. M. 8, 2: [[ventus]] premente nebulā cecidit, Liv. 29, 27, 10: cadente jam Euro, id. 25, 27, 11: venti vis [[omnis]] cecidit, id. 26, 39, 8: ubi [[primum]] aquilones ceciderunt, id. 36, 43, 11; cf.: sic [[cunctus]] pelagi cecidit [[fragor]], Verg. A. 1, 154: ventosi ceciderunt murmuris aurae, id. E. 9, 58; id. G. 1, 354 Serv. and Wagn.—<br /> Rhet. and gram. t. t. of words, syllables, clauses, etc., to be terminated, [[end]], [[close]]: verba [[melius]] in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic. Or. 57, 194; 67, 223: [[qua]] ([[littera]] sc. m) nullum [[Graece]] [[verbum]] cadit, Quint. 12, 10, 31: [[plerique]] censent cadere [[tantum]] [[numerose]] oportere terminarique sententiam, Cic. Or. 59, 199; so id. Brut. 8, 34: [[apto]] cadens [[oratio]], Quint. 9, 4, 32: [[numerus]] [[opportune]] cadens, id. 9, 4, 27: ultima [[syllaba]] in gravem vel duas graves cadit [[semper]], id. 12, 10, 33 Spald.: [[similiter]] cadentia = όμοιόπτωτα, the [[ending]] of words [[with]] the [[same]] cases or verbal forms, diff. from [[similiter]] desinentia = όμοιοτέλευτα, [[similar]] endings of [[any]] [[kind]], Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Or. 34, 135; Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28; Quint. 9, 4, 42; cf. id. 9, 4, 18; 9, 3, 78; 9, 3, 79; 1, 7, 23; Aquil. Rom. Figur. §§ 25 and 26. | |lshtext=<b>cădo</b>: cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (<br /><b>I</b> [[part]]. pres. gen. plur. cadentūm, Verg. A. 10, 674; 12, 410), v. n. cf. Sanscr. çad-, to [[fall]] [[away]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br /> <b>A</b> In an extended [[sense]], to be driven or carried by one's [[weight]] from a [[higher]] to a [[lower]] [[point]], to [[fall]] [[down]], be precipitated, [[sink]] [[down]], go [[down]], [[sink]], [[fall]] (so [[mostly]] [[poet]].; in [[prose]], in [[place]] of it, the compounds decĭdo, occĭdo, excĭdo, etc.; cf. also ruo, [[labor]]; opp. [[surgo]], sto): tum arbores in te cadent, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 25: (aves) praecipites cadunt in terram aut in aquam, [[fall]] [[headlong]] to the [[earth]] or [[into]] the [[water]], Lucr. 6, 745; cf. id. 6, 828; imitated by Verg.: (apes) praecipites cadunt, Verg. G. 4, 80: [[nimbus]], Ut picis e [[caelo]] demissum [[flumen]], in undas Sic cadit, etc., Lucr. 6, 258: cadit in terras vis flammea, id. 2, 215; so [[with]] in, id. 2, 209; 4, 1282; 6, 1006; 6, 1125; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64: in patrios [[pedes]], Ov. F. 2, 832.—With a [[different]] [[meaning]]: omnes [[plerumque]] cadunt in [[vulnus]], in the [[direction]] of, [[towards]] [[their]] [[wound]], Lucr. 4, 1049; cf.: prolapsa in [[vulnus]] moribunda cecidit, Liv. 1, 58, 11: cadit in [[vultus]], Ov. M. 5, 292: in [[pectus]], id. ib. 4, 579.—Less freq. [[with]] ad: ad terras, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216: ad terram, Quint. 5, 10, 84.—The [[place]] from [[which]] is designated by ab, ex, de: a summo cadere, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15: a [[mento]] cadit [[manus]], Ov. F. 3, 20: aves ab [[alto]], Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112: ut cadat ([[avis]]) e regione loci, Lucr. 6, 824: ex arbore, Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 148; Dig. 50, 16, 30, § 4; 18, 1, 80, § 2: cecidisse de equo dicitur, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: cadere de equo, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 125 (for [[which]] Cæsar, [[Nepos]], and Pliny [[employ]] decidere): de manibus [[arma]] cecidissent, Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 21; cf.: de manibus civium delapsa [[arma]] ipsa ceciderunt, id. Off. 1, 22, 77: cadunt altis de montibus umbrae, Verg. E. 1, 84: de [[caelo]], Lucr. 5, 791; Ov. M. 2, 322: de matre (i. e. nasci), Claud. in Rufin. 1, 92.—With per: per [[inane]] profundum, Lucr. 2, 222: per aquas, id. 2, 230: per salebras altaque saxa, Mart. 11, 91; cf.: imbre per indignas [[usque]] cadente genas, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 18.—With the adverb altius: altius [[atque]] cadant summotis nubibus imbres, and poured [[forth]] from a greater [[height]], etc., Verg. E. 6, 38.—And absol.: folia [[nunc]] cadunt, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 24; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12; Lucr. 6, 297: ut pluere in multis regionibus et cadere imbres, id. 6, 415: cadens nix, id. 3, 21; 3, 402: [[velut]] si [[prolapsus]] cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12: quaeque ita concus sa est, ut jam casura putetur, Ov. P. 2, 3, 59: cadentem Sustinuisse, id. M. 8, 148: saepius, of epileptics, Plin. Val. 12, 58: casuri, si [[leviter]] excutiantur, flosculi, Quint. 12, 10, 73.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp.<br /> <b>a</b> Of [[heavenly]] bodies, to [[decline]], [[set]] (opp. [[orior]]), Ov. F. 1, 295: oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem, Verg. A. 4, 480; 8, 59; Tac. G. 45: soli subjecta cadenti arva, Avien. Descr. Orb. 273; cf. Tac. Agr. 12: quā (nocte) [[tristis]] [[Orion]] cadit, Hor. Epod. 10, 10: [[Arcturus]] cadens, id. C. 3, 1, 27.—<br /> <b>b</b> To [[separate]] from [[something]] by falling, to [[fall]] [[off]] or [[away]], [[fall]] [[out]], to [[drop]] [[off]], be [[shed]], etc.: nam tum dentes mihi cadebant [[primulum]], Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 57: dentes cadere imperat [[aetas]], Lucr. 5, 671; Sen. Ep. 12, 3; 83, 3: pueri qui [[primus]] ceciderit [[dens]], Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41: [[barba]], Verg. E. 1, 29: [[quam]] [[multa]] in silvis autumni frigore [[primo]] Lapsa cadunt folia, id. A. 6, 310; cf. Cat. 11, 22; Hor. A. P. 61: lanigeris gregibus Sponte suā lanae cadunt, Ov. M. 7, 541: saetae, id. ib. 14, 303: quadrupedibus [[pilum]] cadere, Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231: poma, Ov. M. 7, 586: cecidere manu quas legerat, herbae, id. ib. 14, 350: elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae, id. ib. 9, 571: et [[colus]] et [[fusus]] digitis cecidere remissis, id. ib. 4, 229.—<br /> <b>c</b> Of a [[stream]], to [[fall]], [[empty]] itself: [[amnis]] Aretho cadit in [[sinum]] maris, Liv. 38, 4, 3; 38, 13, 6; 44, 31, 4: flumina in pontum cadent, Sen. Med. 406: flumina in Hebrum cadentia, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 50: [[tandem]] in alterum amnem cadit, Curt. 6, 4, 6.—<br /> <b>d</b> Of [[dice]], to be thrown or [[cast]]; to [[turn]] up: illud, [[quod]] cecidit [[forte]], Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 23 sq.; Liv. 2, 12, 16.—<br /> <b>e</b> Alicui (alicujus) ad [[pedes]], to [[fall]] at one's feet in [[supplication]], etc. ([[post]]-[[class]]. for [[abicio]], [[proicio]]), Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 19; Eutr. 4, 7; Aug. Serm. 143, 4; Vulg. Joan. 11, 32 al.—<br /> <b>f</b> Super [[collum]] allcujus, to [[embrace]] ([[late]] Lat.), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20.—<br /> <b>B</b> In a [[more]] restricted [[sense]].<br /> <b>1</b> To [[fall]], to [[fall]] [[down]], [[drop]], [[fall]] to, be precipitated, etc.; to [[sink]] [[down]], to [[sink]], [[settle]] (the [[usual]] [[class]]. signif. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]): cadere in [[plano]], Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 17 sq.: [[deorsum]], Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89: [[uspiam]], Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12: [[Brutus]], [[velut]] si [[prolapsus]] cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12; cf. id. 5, 21, 16; 1, 58, 12: dum timent, ne [[aliquando]] cadant, [[semper]] jacent, Quint. 8, 5, 32: sinistrā manu [[sinum]] ad ima crura deduxit ([[Caesar]]), quo honestius caderet, Suet. Caes. 82: cadere [[supinus]], id. Aug. 43 fin.: in [[pectus]] [[pronus]], Ov. M. 4, 579: cadunt toti montes, Lucr. 6, 546: [[radicitus]] exturbata ([[pinus]]) prona cadit, Cat. 64, 109: concussae cadunt urbes, Lucr. 5, 1236: casura [[moenia]] Troum, Ov. M. 13, 375; id. H. 13, 71: multaque [[praeterea]] ceciderunt [[moenia]] magnis motibus in terris, Lucr. 6, 588: languescunt omnia membra; bracchia palpebraeque cadunt, [[their]] [[arms]] and eyelids [[fall]], id. 4, 953; 3, 596; so, ceciderunt [[artus]], id. 3, 453: sed [[tibi]] [[tamen]] oculi, [[voltus]], verba cecidissent, Cic. Dom. 52, 133; cf.: oculos vigiliā fatigatos cadentesque in opere [[detineo]], Sen. Ep. 8, 1: patriae cecidere [[manus]], Verg. A. 6, 33: [[cur]] facunda [[parum]] [[decoro]] Inter verba cadit [[lingua]] silentio? Hor. C. 4, 1, 36: cecidere illis animique manusque, Ov. M. 7, 347; Val. Fl. 1, 300; cf. II. F. [[infra]].—<br /> <b>2</b> In a pregn. signif. (as in [[most]] langg., to [[fall]] in [[battle]], to [[die]]), to [[fall]] so as to be [[unable]] to [[rise]], to [[fall]] [[dead]], to [[fall]], [[die]] (opp. vivere), Prop. 2 (3), 28, 42 (usu. of those [[who]] [[die]] in [[battle]]; [[hence]] [[most]] freq. in the histt.): hostes crebri cadunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 79 sq.: aut in acie cadendum fuit aut in aliquas insidias incidendum, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 3; Curt. 4, 1, 28; Ov. M. 7, 142: ut cum dignitate [[potius]] cadamus [[quam]] cum ignominiā serviamus, Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35: [[pauci]] de nostris cadunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 15; id. B. C. 3, 53: [[optimus]] [[quisque]] cadere aut sauciari, Sall. J. 92, 8; so id. C. 60, 6; id. J. 54, 10; Nep. Paus. 1, 2; id. Thras. 2, 7; id. Dat. 1, 2; 6, 1; 8, 3; Liv. 10, 35, 15 and 19; 21, 7, 10; 23, 21, 7; 29, 14, 8; Tac. G. 33; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 27; Ov. M. 7, 142: per [[acies]], Tac. A. 1, 2: pro patriā, Quint. 2, 15, 29: [[ante]] diem, Verg. A. 4, 620: bipenni, Ov. M. 12, 611: ense, Val. Fl. 1, 812.—Not in [[battle]]: inque pio cadit [[officio]], Ov. M. 6, 250.—With abl. of [[means]] or [[instrument]]: suoque Marte (i. e. suā manu) cadunt, Ov. M. 3, 123; cf. Tac. A. 3, 42 fin.: suā manu cecidit, [[fell]] by his [[own]] [[hand]], id. ib. 15, 71: exitu voluntario, id. H. 1, 40: muliebri fraude cadere, id. A. 2, 71: cecidere justā Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae [[Flamma]] Chimaerae, Hor. C. 4, 2, 14 sq.: manu femineā, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1179: femineo Marte, Ov. M. 12, 610.—With abl. of [[agent]] [[with]] ab: torqueor, [[infesto]] ne vir ab hoste cadat, should be [[slain]] by, Ov. H. 9, 36; so id. M. 5, 192; Suet. Oth. 5: a centurione volneribus adversis [[tamquam]] in pugnā, Tac. A. 16, 9.—And [[without]] ab: barbarae [[postquam]] cecidere turmae Thessalo victore, Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; imitated by Claudian, IV. Cons. Hon. 89; Grat. Cyn. 315.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of victims, to be [[slain]] or offered, to be sacrificed, to [[fall]] ([[poet]].): [[multa]] [[tibi]] [[ante]] aras nostrā cadet [[hostia]] dextrā, Verg. A. 1, 334: si [[tener]] pleno cadit [[haedus]] [[anno]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 4, 1, 15; Ov. M. 7, 162; 13, 615; id. F. 4, 653.—<br /> <b>3</b> In mal. [[part]]., = [[succumbo]], to [[yield]] to, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 104; Tib. 4, 10, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 3, 7.—<br /> <b>4</b> Matre cadens, [[just]] [[born]] ([[poet]].), Val. Fl. 1, 355; cf. of the [[custom]] of laying the [[new]]-[[born]] [[child]] at the [[father]]'s feet: tellure cadens. Stat. S. 1, 2, 209; 5, 5, 69.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br /> <b>A</b> To [[come]] or [[fall]] under, to [[fall]], to be [[subject]] or [[exposed]] to [[something]] ([[more]] [[rare]] [[than]] its [[compound]] incidere, [[but]] [[class]].); constr. [[usually]] [[with]] sub or in, [[sometimes]] [[with]] ad: sub [[sensus]] cadere nostros, i. e. to be perceived by the senses, Lucr. 1, 448: sub sensum, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48: in cernendi sensum. id. Tim. 3: sub oculos, id. Or. 3, 9: in conspectum, to [[become]] [[visible]], id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50: sub aurium mensuram, id. Or. 20, 67: [[sponte]] suā ([[genus]] humanum) cecidit sub leges artaque jura, subjected itself to [[law]] and the [[force]] of [[right]], Lucr. 5, 1146; so id. 3, 848: ad servitia, Liv. 1, 40, 3: utrorum ad regna, Lucr. 3, 836; so, sub [[imperium]] dicionemque Romanorum, Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2): in potestatem unius, id. Att. 8, 3, 2: in cogitationem, to [[suggest]] itself to the thoughts, id. N. D. 1, 9, 21: in hominum disceptationem, id. de Or. 2, 2, 5: in deliberationem, id. Off. 1, 3, 9: in offensionem alicujus, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: in morbum, id. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: in suspitionem alicujus, Nep. Paus. 2, 6: in calumniam, Quint. 9, 4, 57: [[abrupte]] cadere in narrationem, id. 4, 1, 79: in [[peccatum]], Aug. in Psa. 65, 13.—<br /> <b>B</b> In gen.: in or sub aliquem or aliquid, to belong to [[any]] [[object]], to be in [[accordance]] [[with]], [[agree]] [[with]], [[refer]] to, be [[suitable]] to, to [[fit]], [[suit]], [[become]] (so esp. freq. in philos. and rhet. lang.): non cadit in hos [[mores]], non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam, non in hunc hominem ista [[suspitio]], Cic. Sull. 27, 75: cadit [[ergo]] in [[bonum]] virum mentiri, emolumenti sui causā? id. Off. 3, 20, 81; so id. Cael. 29, 69; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56: haec Academica... in personas non cadebant, id. Att. 13, 19, 5: qui [[pedes]] in orationem non cadere quī possunt? id. Or. 56, 188: [[neque]] in unam formam cadunt omnia, id. ib. 11, 37; 57, 191; 27, 95; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 3, 7, 6; 4, 2, 37; 4, 2, 93; 6, prooem. § 5; 7, 2, 30 and 31; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 82: heu, cadit in quemquam [[tantum]] [[scelus]]? Verg. E. 9, 17; Cic. Or. 27, 95; 11, 37; Quint. 3, 5, 16; 3, 6, 91; 5, 10, 30; 6, 3, 52; 7, 2, 31; 9, 1, 7; 9, 3, 92: hoc [[quoque]] in rerum naturam cadit, ut, etc., id. 2, 17, 32: in iis rebus, quae sub eandem rationem cadunt, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 8, 3, 56.—<br /> <b>C</b> To [[fall]] [[upon]] a [[definite]] [[time]] ([[rare]]): considera, ne in alienissimum [[tempus]] cadat [[adventus]] [[tuus]], Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 4: in id [[saeculum]] Romuli cecidit [[aetas]], cum, etc., id. Rep. 2, 10, 18.—Hence, in [[mercantile]] lang., of payments, to [[fall]] [[due]]: in eam diem cadere (were [[due]]) nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4.—<br /> <b>D</b> (Acc. to I. 1. e.) Alicui, to [[fall]] to one (as by [[lot]]), [[fall]] to one's [[lot]], [[happen]] to one, [[befall]]; and absol. (for accidere), to [[happen]], [[come]] to [[pass]], [[occur]], [[result]], [[turn]] [[out]], [[fall]] [[out]] (esp. in an [[unexpected]] [[manner]]; cf. [[accido]]; [[very]] freq. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]).<br /> <b>1</b> Alicui: [[nihil]] ipsis jure incommodi cadere possit, Cic. Quint. 16, 51: hoc cecidit mihi [[peropportune]], [[quod]], etc., id. de Or. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 3, 1: insperanti mihi, cecidit, ut, etc., id. de Or. 1, 21, 96; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; id. Mil. 30, 81: mihi omnia [[semper]] honesta et jucunda ceciderunt, id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: sunt, quibus ad portas cecidit [[custodia]] sorti, Verg. G. 4, 165: haec aliis maledicta cadant, Tib. 1, 6, 85: neu [[tibi]] pro [[vano]] verba benigna cadunt, Prop. 1, 10, 24: ut illis... [[voluptas]] cadat dura [[inter]] [[saepe]] pericla, Hor. S. 1, 2, 40: verba cadentia, uttered at [[random]], id. Ep. 1, 18, 12.—<br /> <b>2</b> Ab sol., Afran. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 195 P.; Cic. Leg .2, 13, 33: verebar [[quorsum]] id casurum esset, [[how]] it would [[turn]] [[out]], id. Att. 3, 24: [[aliorsum]] vota ceciderunt, Flor. 2, 4, 5: cum [[aliter]] res cecidisset ac putasses, had turned [[out]] [[differently]] from [[what]] [[was]] [[expected]], Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 1: [[sane]] ita cadebat ut vellem, id. Att. 3, 7, 1; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 73, Nep. Milt. 2, 5 Dähne: cum, quae tum [[maxime]] acciderant, casura praemonens, a furioso [[incepto]] eos deterreret, Liv. 36, 34, 3; 22, 40, 3; 35, 13, 9; 38, 46, 6; Plin. [[Pan]]. 31, 1; Tac. A. 2, 80; 6, 8; Suet. Tib. 14 al.; Verg. A. 2, 709: ut omnia [[fortiter]] fiant, [[feliciter]] cadant, Sen. Suas. 2, p. 14: [[multa]]. [[fortuito]] in [[melius]] casura, Tac. A. 2, 77.—With adj.: si non omnia caderent secunda, Caes. B. C. 3, 73: vota cadunt, i.e. rata sunt, are [[fulfilled]], realized, Tib. 2, 2, 17 (diff. from Prop. 1, 17, 4; v. under F.).—<br /> <b>3</b> With in and acc.: nimia [[illa]] [[libertas]] et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit (cf. μεταβάλλει), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—Esp.: in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, [[fail]], be or [[remain]] [[fruitless]]: omnia in cassum cadunt, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166: ad irritum cadens [[spes]], Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26: in irritum, id. A. 15, 39; cf. [[with]] [[irritus]], adj.: ut irrita promissa ejus caderent, Liv. 2, 31, 5: [[haud]] irritae cecidere [[minae]], id. 6, 35, 10.—<br /> <b>E</b> To [[fall]], to [[become]] [[less]] (in [[strength]], [[power]], [[worth]], etc.), to [[decrease]], [[diminish]], [[lessen]]: cadunt [[vires]], Lucr. 5, 410: mercenarii milites pretia militiae casura in [[pace]] [[aegre]] ferebant, Liv. 34, 36, 7.—More freq. in an extended signif. (acc. to I. B. 2.),<br /> <b>F</b> To [[lose]] all one's [[strength]], [[worth]], [[value]], etc., to [[fall]], to [[perish]], [[vanish]], [[decay]], [[cease]].<br /> <b>1</b> In gen.: [[pellis]] [[item]] cecidit, [[vestis]] contempta ferina. declined in [[value]], Lucr. 5, 1417: turpius est [[enim]] [[privatim]] cadere (i. e. fortunis everti) [[quam]] [[publice]], Cic. Att. 16, 15, 6; so id. Fam. 6, 10, 2: [[atque]] ea [[quidem]] tua [[laus]] [[pariter]] cum re publicā cecidit, id. Off. 2, 13, 45: tanta [[civitas]], si cadet, id. Har. Resp. 20, 42: huc cecidisse Germanici [[exercitus]] gloriam, ut, etc., Tac. H. 3, 13: non [[tibi]] ingredienti fines ira cecidit? Liv. 2, 40, 7; Pers. 5, 91: [[amicitia]] nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur, Cic. Lael. 7, 23: [[animus]], to [[fail]], Liv. 1, 11, 3; Ov. M. 11, 537; cf. id. ib. 7, 347: non debemus ita cadere animis, etc., to [[lose]] [[courage]], be [[disheartened]], Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4: tam [[graviter]], id. Off. 1, 21, 73; cf. Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—Esp., to [[fail]] in [[speaking]]: [[magnus]] [[orator]] est... minimeque in [[lubrico]] versabitur, et si [[semel]] constiterit [[numquam]] cadet, Cic. Or. 28, 98: [[alte]] [[enim]] cadere non potest, id. ib. —So in the lang. of the jurists, causā or formulā, to [[lose]] one's [[cause]] or [[suit]]: causā cadere, Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 57; so id. de Or. 1, 36, 166 sq.; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1; Quint. 7, 3, 17; Luc. 2, 554; Suet. Calig. 39: formulā cadere, Sen. Ep. 48, 10; Quint. 3, 6, 69.—With in: ita quemquam cadere in judicio, ut, etc., Cic. Mur. 28, 58.—Also absol.: cadere, Tac. H. 4, 6; and: criminibus repetundarum, id. ib. 1, 77: conjurationis crimine, id. A. 6, 14: ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum, Ov. M. 13, 435: omniaque ingrato litore vota cadunt, i. e. irrita sunt, [[remain]] [[unfulfilled]], [[unaccomplished]], Prop. 1, 17, 4 (diff. from Tib. 2, 2, 17; v. [[above]], D. 2.); cf.: at mea nocturno verba cadunt zephyro, Prop. 1, 16, 34: [[multa]] renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae [[nunc]] sunt in honore vocabula, to [[fall]] [[into]] [[disuse]], [[grow]] [[out]] of [[date]], Hor. A. P. 70 —Hence of [[theatrical]] representations, to [[fall]] [[through]], to [[fail]], be condemned (opp. [[stare]], to [[win]] [[applause]]; the [[fig]]. [[derived]] from combatants): [[securus]] cadat an [[recto]] stet [[fabula]] talo, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176.—Impers.. [[periculum]] est, ne cadatur, Aug. [[Don]]. Persev. 1.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp. of the [[wind]] (opp. [[surgo]]), to [[abate]], [[subside]], [[die]] [[away]], etc.: cadit Eurus et umida surgunt Nubila, Ov. M. 8, 2: [[ventus]] premente nebulā cecidit, Liv. 29, 27, 10: cadente jam Euro, id. 25, 27, 11: venti vis [[omnis]] cecidit, id. 26, 39, 8: ubi [[primum]] aquilones ceciderunt, id. 36, 43, 11; cf.: sic [[cunctus]] pelagi cecidit [[fragor]], Verg. A. 1, 154: ventosi ceciderunt murmuris aurae, id. E. 9, 58; id. G. 1, 354 Serv. and Wagn.—<br /> Rhet. and gram. t. t. of words, syllables, clauses, etc., to be terminated, [[end]], [[close]]: verba [[melius]] in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic. Or. 57, 194; 67, 223: [[qua]] ([[littera]] sc. m) nullum [[Graece]] [[verbum]] cadit, Quint. 12, 10, 31: [[plerique]] censent cadere [[tantum]] [[numerose]] oportere terminarique sententiam, Cic. Or. 59, 199; so id. Brut. 8, 34: [[apto]] cadens [[oratio]], Quint. 9, 4, 32: [[numerus]] [[opportune]] cadens, id. 9, 4, 27: ultima [[syllaba]] in gravem vel duas graves cadit [[semper]], id. 12, 10, 33 Spald.: [[similiter]] cadentia = όμοιόπτωτα, the [[ending]] of words [[with]] the [[same]] cases or verbal forms, diff. from [[similiter]] desinentia = όμοιοτέλευτα, [[similar]] endings of [[any]] [[kind]], Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Or. 34, 135; Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28; Quint. 9, 4, 42; cf. id. 9, 4, 18; 9, 3, 78; 9, 3, 79; 1, 7, 23; Aquil. Rom. 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|gf=<b>cădō</b>,⁶ cĕcĭdī, cāsum, ĕre, intr., tomber<br /><b>1</b> [en parl. des choses et des êtres animés] tomber, choir : homini [[ilico]] lacrumæ cadunt Ter. Ad. 536, aussitôt les larmes lui tombent des yeux ; cadentes guttæ Cic. de Or. 3, 186, gouttes d’eau qui tombent ; [[puto]] [[saxum]] [[tamen]] casurum fuisse Cic. Fato 6, je [[pense]] que le rocher serait tombé quand même ; in terram cadentibus corporibus Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, les corps tombant à terre ; si de cælo cadit ([[ignis]]) Sen. Nat. 2, 13, 1, si ce feu tombe du ciel (cælo Virg. G. 1, 487 ); cadunt de montibus umbræ Virg. B. 1, 83, l’ombre tombe des montagnes || omnibus istis latronibus de manibus [[arma]] cecidissent Cic. Phil. 14, 21, les armes seraient tombées des mains de tous ces brigands (de manibus audacissimorum civium Cic. Off. 1, 77, des mains des citoyens les [[plus]] audacieux) ; cum [[offa]] cecidit ex ore pulli Cic. Div. 2, 72, quand une miette de nourriture [[est]] tombée du bec du poulet sacré ; [[vela]] cadunt Virg. En. 3, 207, les voiles tombent ; cecidere a pectore vestes Stat. Ach. 1, 878, le vêtement tomba de sa poitrine ; (tecta) si [[aut]] vi tempestatis [[aut]] terræ motu [[aut]] vetustate cecidissent Cic. Off. 2, 13, (les maisons) si elles étaient tombées ou sous l’effort de la tempête ou par suite d’un tremblement de terre ou par l’effet de la vétusté || ex equo Cic. Fato 5 ; de equo Cic. Clu. 175, tomber de cheval || [métaph.] : [[minime]] in [[lubrico]] versabitur... [[numquam]] cadet Cic. Or. 98, [l’orateur du genre simple] ne s’aventurera guère sur un terrain glissant... il ne tombera jamais ; [[alte]] cadere [[non]] potest Cic. Or. 98, il ne peut tomber de [[haut]]<br /><b>2</b> tomber, succomber, mourir : in prœlio cadere Cic. Fin. 2, 61, tomber dans la bataille ([[pro]] [[patria]] Cic. Tusc. 1, 89, pour la [[patrie]]) || referes, [[telo]] cecidisse Camillæ Virg. En. 11, 689, tu leur rapporteras que tu es tombé sous le [[fer]] de Camille ; Hectoreā hastā Ov. M. 12, 68, tomber sous la lance d’[[Hector]] ; [[non]] armis telisque Romanis ceciderunt Tac. G. 33, ce n’[[est]] pas sous [[nos]] armes et [[nos]] traits qu’ils sont tombés ; [[multa]] [[tibi]] [[ante]] aras nostra cadet [[hostia]] [[dextra]] Virg. En. 1, 334, de nombreuses victimes seront immolées de notre main en ton honneur devant les autels || [avec ab ] ab [[aliquo]] cadere, tomber sous les coups de qqn : Ov. M. 5, 192 ; F. 6, 564 ; Tac. Ann. 16, 9 ; Suet. Oth. 5<br /><b>3</b> [fig.] tomber : labentem et [[prope]] cadentem rem publicam fulcire Cic. Phil. 2, 51, soutenir le gouvernement en train de glisser et presque de tomber ; [[cecidi]] [[sciens]], ut honestissime exsurgere possem Cic. Phil. 12, 24, je [[suis]] tombé sciemment, pour pouvoir me relever avec honneur ; [[non]] debemus cadere animis Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4, nous ne devons pas nous laisser abattre || [en part.] [[causa]] cadere Cic. de Or. 1, 167 ; in judicio cadere Cic. Mur. 58, perdre son procès ; repetundarum criminibus ceciderant Tac. H. 1, 77, ils avaient été condamnés du chef de concussions<br /><b>4</b> [fig.] tomber, disparaître : mundis aliis nascentibus, aliis cadentibus Cic. Nat. 1, 67, les mondes, les uns naissant, les autres disparaissant ; ea tua [[laus]] [[pariter]] cum re publica cecidit Cic. Off. 2, 45, [[cette]] gloire que tu acquérais [[est]] tombée avec la république ; cecidere illis animi Ov. M. 7, 347, leur courage tomba, cf. Liv. 1, 11, 3 ; 2, 65, 7 ; [[non]] [[tibi]] [[ira]] cecidit ? Liv. 2, 40, 7, ta colère n’[[est]] pas tombée ? pretia militiæ [[casura]] in pace ægre ferebant Liv. 34, 36, 7, ils voyaient avec peine que la solde disparaîtrait avec la paix ; venti [[vis]] [[omnis]] cecidit Liv. 26, 39, 8, toute la force du vent tomba ; cadente [[jam]] Euro Liv. 25, 27, 11, comme l’Eurus [le vent d’[[est]] commençait à tomber ; [[postquam]] cecidit superbum [[Ilium]] Virg. En. 3, 2, quand fut tombée la [[superbe]] Troie<br /><b>5</b> [rhét. et gramm.] tomber, se terminer, finir : verba [[eodem]] pacto cadentia Cic. Or. 84, ὁμοιόπτωτα, mots ayant la même désinence casuelle [cf. Or. 135 [[similiter]] desinentia, ayant la même terminaison ὁμοιοτέλευτα], cf. Her. 4, 28 ; Cic. de Or. 3, 206 ; Or. 135 || [chute de la phrase] : Cic. Or. 38 ; 219, etc.; [[sententia]] cadit [[numerose]] Cic. Br. 34, la phrase (l’expression de la pensée) a une fin rythmique, cf. Or. 175 ; 199 ; etc.<br /><b>6</b> arriver [surtout avec un adverbe ou un adjectif attribut] : [[hoc]] cecidit [[mihi]] [[peropportune]], [[quod]]... venistis Cic. de Or. 2, 15, fort heureusement pour moi, vous êtes [[venus]]...; intellexi [[nihil]] [[mihi]] optatius cadere posse, [[quam]] ut me [[quam]] [[primum]] consequare Cic. Att. 3, 1, j’ai compris que [[rien]] ne pourrait être [[plus]] désirable pour moi que de te voir me rejoindre le [[plus]] tôt possible ; a te [[mihi]] [[omnia]] [[semper]] honesta et jucunda ceciderunt Cic. Q. 1, 3, 1, de ton fait, tout ce qui m’[[est]] arrivé a toujours été honorable et agréable (de toi je n’ai jamais eu qu’honneur et agrément) ; si [[non]] [[omnia]] caderent secunda Cæs. C. 3, 73, 4, si tout n’arrivait pas heureusement ; si [[minus]] fortissimi viri [[virtus]] civibus grata cecidisset Cic. Mil. 81, si le courage de cet homme si énergique n’avait pas l’heur de plaire à ses concitoyens || [[valde]] optanti [[utrique]] [[nostrum]] cecidit, ut in istum sermonem delaberemini Cic. de Or. 1, 96, conformément à ce que chacun de nous deux souhaitait vivement, il s’[[est]] trouvé que vous êtes tombés sur ce sujet d’entretien ; [[sed]] [[ita]] cadebat ut Cic. Br. 149, mais il arrivait que..., cf. Fam. 3, 12, 2 ; Att. 3, 7, 1 ; cecidit [[belle]] Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4, cela [[est]] joliment bien tombé || sortes ductæ, ut in rem [[apte]] cadant Cic. Div. 1, 34, sorts tirés avec une [[exacte]] appropriation à l’objet || aboutir à : nimia [[illa]] [[libertas]] in nimiam servitutem cadit Cic. Rep. 1, 68, [[cette]] liberté excessive aboutit à une excessive servitude ; in irritum Tac. Ann. 15, 39 ; ad irritum Liv. 2, 6, 1 ; in [[cassum]] Lucr. 2, 1165, n’aboutir à [[rien]], avorter, être sans effet<br /><b>7</b> tomber, venir à, s’exposer à : [[sub]] [[imperium]] alicujus Cic. Att. 8, 3, 2 ([[sub]] potestatem Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 144 ), tomber sous la domination, sous le pouvoir de qqn ; in eandem suspicionem Cic. Phil. 11, 24, être exposé au même soupçon ; in offensionem Atheniensium Cic. Nat. 1, 85, s’exposer à l’hostilité des Athéniens ; in vituperationem Cic. Att. 14, 13, 4, s’exposer au blâme || tomber, coïncider : in id sæculum Romuli cecidit ætas, cum.... Cic. Rep. 2, 18, l’époque de [[Romulus]] coïncide avec un siècle où..., cf. Fam. 15, 14, 4 ; scribis in [[eam]] diem cadere nummos qui a Quinto debentur Cic. Att. 15, 19, 4, tu écris que c’[[est]] le jour d’échéance de la dette de mon frère [[Quintus]]<br /><b>8</b> tomber sur [in aliquem, in [[aliquid]] ], se rapporter à, cadrer, convenir : si cadit in sapientem animi [[dolor]] Cic. Læl. 48, si le sage [[est]] susceptible de souffrance morale ; de [[hac]] [[dico]] [[sapientia]], quæ videtur in hominem cadere posse Cic. Læl. 100, je parle de [[cette]] sagesse qui paraît accessible à l’homme ; cadit [[ergo]] in virum [[bonum]] mentiri emolumenti [[sui]] [[causa]] ? Cic. Off. 3, 81, alors, cela cadre avec un homme de bien de mentir pour son intérêt ? [[non]] cadit in [[hunc]] hominem ista [[suspicio]] Cic. [[Sulla]] 75, ce soupçon ne convient pas à un tel homme (n’[[est]] pas de mise avec un tel homme) ; [[quod]] [[facinus]] [[nec]] in hominem imprudentem caderet, [[nec]] in facinerosum... Cic. Dej. 16, un forfait qui ne s’expliquerait ni d’un imprudent ni d’un scélérat ; [[dictum]] cadit in aliquem Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, un mot s’applique bien à qqn [une plaisanterie Cic. de Or. 2, 245 ] || id [[verbum]] in consuetudinem nostram [[non]] cadit Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, ce mot n’[[est]] pas conforme à l’usage de notre langue ; sustinendi muneris [[propter]] imbecillitatem [[difficultas]] [[minime]] cadit in majestatem deorum Cic. Nat. 2, 77, avoir de la peine par faiblesse à soutenir [[cette]] tâche [[est]] incompatible avec la grandeur [[divine]] || tomber sur, sous, dans : [[omnia]], quæcumque in hominum disceptationem cadere possunt Cic. de Or. 2, 5, tout ce qui peut venir en discussion (être l’objet de) ; in cernendi sensum Cic. Tim. 9, tomber sous le sens de la vue ; [[sub]] aspectum Cic. Tim. 11 ; [[sub]] oculos Cic. Or. 9, tomber sous la vue, sous les yeux ; [[sub]] aurium mensuram [[aliquam]] Cic. Or. 67, être susceptible d’une mesure (d’une appréciation) de l’oreille || [[quoniam]] plura sunt orationum genera [[neque]] in unam formam cadunt [[omnia]] Cic. Or. 37, comme il y a [[plus]] d’un genre d’éloquence et qu’ils ne rentrent pas tous dans le même type. | |||
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cădo: cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (
I part. pres. gen. plur. cadentūm, Verg. A. 10, 674; 12, 410), v. n. cf. Sanscr. çad-, to fall away.
I Lit.
A In an extended sense, to be driven or carried by one's weight from a higher to a lower point, to fall down, be precipitated, sink down, go down, sink, fall (so mostly poet.; in prose, in place of it, the compounds decĭdo, occĭdo, excĭdo, etc.; cf. also ruo, labor; opp. surgo, sto): tum arbores in te cadent, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 25: (aves) praecipites cadunt in terram aut in aquam, fall headlong to the earth or into the water, Lucr. 6, 745; cf. id. 6, 828; imitated by Verg.: (apes) praecipites cadunt, Verg. G. 4, 80: nimbus, Ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, in undas Sic cadit, etc., Lucr. 6, 258: cadit in terras vis flammea, id. 2, 215; so with in, id. 2, 209; 4, 1282; 6, 1006; 6, 1125; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64: in patrios pedes, Ov. F. 2, 832.—With a different meaning: omnes plerumque cadunt in vulnus, in the direction of, towards their wound, Lucr. 4, 1049; cf.: prolapsa in vulnus moribunda cecidit, Liv. 1, 58, 11: cadit in vultus, Ov. M. 5, 292: in pectus, id. ib. 4, 579.—Less freq. with ad: ad terras, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216: ad terram, Quint. 5, 10, 84.—The place from which is designated by ab, ex, de: a summo cadere, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15: a mento cadit manus, Ov. F. 3, 20: aves ab alto, Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112: ut cadat (avis) e regione loci, Lucr. 6, 824: ex arbore, Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 148; Dig. 50, 16, 30, § 4; 18, 1, 80, § 2: cecidisse de equo dicitur, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: cadere de equo, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 125 (for which Cæsar, Nepos, and Pliny employ decidere): de manibus arma cecidissent, Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 21; cf.: de manibus civium delapsa arma ipsa ceciderunt, id. Off. 1, 22, 77: cadunt altis de montibus umbrae, Verg. E. 1, 84: de caelo, Lucr. 5, 791; Ov. M. 2, 322: de matre (i. e. nasci), Claud. in Rufin. 1, 92.—With per: per inane profundum, Lucr. 2, 222: per aquas, id. 2, 230: per salebras altaque saxa, Mart. 11, 91; cf.: imbre per indignas usque cadente genas, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 18.—With the adverb altius: altius atque cadant summotis nubibus imbres, and poured forth from a greater height, etc., Verg. E. 6, 38.—And absol.: folia nunc cadunt, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 24; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12; Lucr. 6, 297: ut pluere in multis regionibus et cadere imbres, id. 6, 415: cadens nix, id. 3, 21; 3, 402: velut si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12: quaeque ita concus sa est, ut jam casura putetur, Ov. P. 2, 3, 59: cadentem Sustinuisse, id. M. 8, 148: saepius, of epileptics, Plin. Val. 12, 58: casuri, si leviter excutiantur, flosculi, Quint. 12, 10, 73.—
2 Esp.
a Of heavenly bodies, to decline, set (opp. orior), Ov. F. 1, 295: oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem, Verg. A. 4, 480; 8, 59; Tac. G. 45: soli subjecta cadenti arva, Avien. Descr. Orb. 273; cf. Tac. Agr. 12: quā (nocte) tristis Orion cadit, Hor. Epod. 10, 10: Arcturus cadens, id. C. 3, 1, 27.—
b To separate from something by falling, to fall off or away, fall out, to drop off, be shed, etc.: nam tum dentes mihi cadebant primulum, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 57: dentes cadere imperat aetas, Lucr. 5, 671; Sen. Ep. 12, 3; 83, 3: pueri qui primus ceciderit dens, Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41: barba, Verg. E. 1, 29: quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadunt folia, id. A. 6, 310; cf. Cat. 11, 22; Hor. A. P. 61: lanigeris gregibus Sponte suā lanae cadunt, Ov. M. 7, 541: saetae, id. ib. 14, 303: quadrupedibus pilum cadere, Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231: poma, Ov. M. 7, 586: cecidere manu quas legerat, herbae, id. ib. 14, 350: elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae, id. ib. 9, 571: et colus et fusus digitis cecidere remissis, id. ib. 4, 229.—
c Of a stream, to fall, empty itself: amnis Aretho cadit in sinum maris, Liv. 38, 4, 3; 38, 13, 6; 44, 31, 4: flumina in pontum cadent, Sen. Med. 406: flumina in Hebrum cadentia, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 50: tandem in alterum amnem cadit, Curt. 6, 4, 6.—
d Of dice, to be thrown or cast; to turn up: illud, quod cecidit forte, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 23 sq.; Liv. 2, 12, 16.—
e Alicui (alicujus) ad pedes, to fall at one's feet in supplication, etc. (post-class. for abicio, proicio), Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 19; Eutr. 4, 7; Aug. Serm. 143, 4; Vulg. Joan. 11, 32 al.—
f Super collum allcujus, to embrace (late Lat.), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20.—
B In a more restricted sense.
1 To fall, to fall down, drop, fall to, be precipitated, etc.; to sink down, to sink, settle (the usual class. signif. in prose and poetry): cadere in plano, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 17 sq.: deorsum, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89: uspiam, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12: Brutus, velut si prolapsus cecidisset, Liv. 1, 56, 12; cf. id. 5, 21, 16; 1, 58, 12: dum timent, ne aliquando cadant, semper jacent, Quint. 8, 5, 32: sinistrā manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit (Caesar), quo honestius caderet, Suet. Caes. 82: cadere supinus, id. Aug. 43 fin.: in pectus pronus, Ov. M. 4, 579: cadunt toti montes, Lucr. 6, 546: radicitus exturbata (pinus) prona cadit, Cat. 64, 109: concussae cadunt urbes, Lucr. 5, 1236: casura moenia Troum, Ov. M. 13, 375; id. H. 13, 71: multaque praeterea ceciderunt moenia magnis motibus in terris, Lucr. 6, 588: languescunt omnia membra; bracchia palpebraeque cadunt, their arms and eyelids fall, id. 4, 953; 3, 596; so, ceciderunt artus, id. 3, 453: sed tibi tamen oculi, voltus, verba cecidissent, Cic. Dom. 52, 133; cf.: oculos vigiliā fatigatos cadentesque in opere detineo, Sen. Ep. 8, 1: patriae cecidere manus, Verg. A. 6, 33: cur facunda parum decoro Inter verba cadit lingua silentio? Hor. C. 4, 1, 36: cecidere illis animique manusque, Ov. M. 7, 347; Val. Fl. 1, 300; cf. II. F. infra.—
2 In a pregn. signif. (as in most langg., to fall in battle, to die), to fall so as to be unable to rise, to fall dead, to fall, die (opp. vivere), Prop. 2 (3), 28, 42 (usu. of those who die in battle; hence most freq. in the histt.): hostes crebri cadunt, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 79 sq.: aut in acie cadendum fuit aut in aliquas insidias incidendum, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 3; Curt. 4, 1, 28; Ov. M. 7, 142: ut cum dignitate potius cadamus quam cum ignominiā serviamus, Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35: pauci de nostris cadunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 15; id. B. C. 3, 53: optimus quisque cadere aut sauciari, Sall. J. 92, 8; so id. C. 60, 6; id. J. 54, 10; Nep. Paus. 1, 2; id. Thras. 2, 7; id. Dat. 1, 2; 6, 1; 8, 3; Liv. 10, 35, 15 and 19; 21, 7, 10; 23, 21, 7; 29, 14, 8; Tac. G. 33; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 27; Ov. M. 7, 142: per acies, Tac. A. 1, 2: pro patriā, Quint. 2, 15, 29: ante diem, Verg. A. 4, 620: bipenni, Ov. M. 12, 611: ense, Val. Fl. 1, 812.—Not in battle: inque pio cadit officio, Ov. M. 6, 250.—With abl. of means or instrument: suoque Marte (i. e. suā manu) cadunt, Ov. M. 3, 123; cf. Tac. A. 3, 42 fin.: suā manu cecidit, fell by his own hand, id. ib. 15, 71: exitu voluntario, id. H. 1, 40: muliebri fraude cadere, id. A. 2, 71: cecidere justā Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae Flamma Chimaerae, Hor. C. 4, 2, 14 sq.: manu femineā, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1179: femineo Marte, Ov. M. 12, 610.—With abl. of agent with ab: torqueor, infesto ne vir ab hoste cadat, should be slain by, Ov. H. 9, 36; so id. M. 5, 192; Suet. Oth. 5: a centurione volneribus adversis tamquam in pugnā, Tac. A. 16, 9.—And without ab: barbarae postquam cecidere turmae Thessalo victore, Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; imitated by Claudian, IV. Cons. Hon. 89; Grat. Cyn. 315.—
b Of victims, to be slain or offered, to be sacrificed, to fall (poet.): multa tibi ante aras nostrā cadet hostia dextrā, Verg. A. 1, 334: si tener pleno cadit haedus anno, Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 4, 1, 15; Ov. M. 7, 162; 13, 615; id. F. 4, 653.—
3 In mal. part., = succumbo, to yield to, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 104; Tib. 4, 10, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 3, 7.—
4 Matre cadens, just born (poet.), Val. Fl. 1, 355; cf. of the custom of laying the new-born child at the father's feet: tellure cadens. Stat. S. 1, 2, 209; 5, 5, 69.
II Trop.
A To come or fall under, to fall, to be subject or exposed to something (more rare than its compound incidere, but class.); constr. usually with sub or in, sometimes with ad: sub sensus cadere nostros, i. e. to be perceived by the senses, Lucr. 1, 448: sub sensum, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48: in cernendi sensum. id. Tim. 3: sub oculos, id. Or. 3, 9: in conspectum, to become visible, id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50: sub aurium mensuram, id. Or. 20, 67: sponte suā (genus humanum) cecidit sub leges artaque jura, subjected itself to law and the force of right, Lucr. 5, 1146; so id. 3, 848: ad servitia, Liv. 1, 40, 3: utrorum ad regna, Lucr. 3, 836; so, sub imperium dicionemque Romanorum, Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2): in potestatem unius, id. Att. 8, 3, 2: in cogitationem, to suggest itself to the thoughts, id. N. D. 1, 9, 21: in hominum disceptationem, id. de Or. 2, 2, 5: in deliberationem, id. Off. 1, 3, 9: in offensionem alicujus, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: in morbum, id. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: in suspitionem alicujus, Nep. Paus. 2, 6: in calumniam, Quint. 9, 4, 57: abrupte cadere in narrationem, id. 4, 1, 79: in peccatum, Aug. in Psa. 65, 13.—
B In gen.: in or sub aliquem or aliquid, to belong to any object, to be in accordance with, agree with, refer to, be suitable to, to fit, suit, become (so esp. freq. in philos. and rhet. lang.): non cadit in hos mores, non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam, non in hunc hominem ista suspitio, Cic. Sull. 27, 75: cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri, emolumenti sui causā? id. Off. 3, 20, 81; so id. Cael. 29, 69; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56: haec Academica... in personas non cadebant, id. Att. 13, 19, 5: qui pedes in orationem non cadere quī possunt? id. Or. 56, 188: neque in unam formam cadunt omnia, id. ib. 11, 37; 57, 191; 27, 95; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 3, 7, 6; 4, 2, 37; 4, 2, 93; 6, prooem. § 5; 7, 2, 30 and 31; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 82: heu, cadit in quemquam tantum scelus? Verg. E. 9, 17; Cic. Or. 27, 95; 11, 37; Quint. 3, 5, 16; 3, 6, 91; 5, 10, 30; 6, 3, 52; 7, 2, 31; 9, 1, 7; 9, 3, 92: hoc quoque in rerum naturam cadit, ut, etc., id. 2, 17, 32: in iis rebus, quae sub eandem rationem cadunt, Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 8, 3, 56.—
C To fall upon a definite time (rare): considera, ne in alienissimum tempus cadat adventus tuus, Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 4: in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, cum, etc., id. Rep. 2, 10, 18.—Hence, in mercantile lang., of payments, to fall due: in eam diem cadere (were due) nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4.—
D (Acc. to I. 1. e.) Alicui, to fall to one (as by lot), fall to one's lot, happen to one, befall; and absol. (for accidere), to happen, come to pass, occur, result, turn out, fall out (esp. in an unexpected manner; cf. accido; very freq. in prose and poetry).
1 Alicui: nihil ipsis jure incommodi cadere possit, Cic. Quint. 16, 51: hoc cecidit mihi peropportune, quod, etc., id. de Or. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 3, 1: insperanti mihi, cecidit, ut, etc., id. de Or. 1, 21, 96; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; id. Mil. 30, 81: mihi omnia semper honesta et jucunda ceciderunt, id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1: sunt, quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti, Verg. G. 4, 165: haec aliis maledicta cadant, Tib. 1, 6, 85: neu tibi pro vano verba benigna cadunt, Prop. 1, 10, 24: ut illis... voluptas cadat dura inter saepe pericla, Hor. S. 1, 2, 40: verba cadentia, uttered at random, id. Ep. 1, 18, 12.—
2 Ab sol., Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Cic. Leg .2, 13, 33: verebar quorsum id casurum esset, how it would turn out, id. Att. 3, 24: aliorsum vota ceciderunt, Flor. 2, 4, 5: cum aliter res cecidisset ac putasses, had turned out differently from what was expected, Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 1: sane ita cadebat ut vellem, id. Att. 3, 7, 1; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 73, Nep. Milt. 2, 5 Dähne: cum, quae tum maxime acciderant, casura praemonens, a furioso incepto eos deterreret, Liv. 36, 34, 3; 22, 40, 3; 35, 13, 9; 38, 46, 6; Plin. Pan. 31, 1; Tac. A. 2, 80; 6, 8; Suet. Tib. 14 al.; Verg. A. 2, 709: ut omnia fortiter fiant, feliciter cadant, Sen. Suas. 2, p. 14: multa. fortuito in melius casura, Tac. A. 2, 77.—With adj.: si non omnia caderent secunda, Caes. B. C. 3, 73: vota cadunt, i.e. rata sunt, are fulfilled, realized, Tib. 2, 2, 17 (diff. from Prop. 1, 17, 4; v. under F.).—
3 With in and acc.: nimia illa libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit (cf. μεταβάλλει), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—Esp.: in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, fail, be or remain fruitless: omnia in cassum cadunt, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166: ad irritum cadens spes, Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26: in irritum, id. A. 15, 39; cf. with irritus, adj.: ut irrita promissa ejus caderent, Liv. 2, 31, 5: haud irritae cecidere minae, id. 6, 35, 10.—
E To fall, to become less (in strength, power, worth, etc.), to decrease, diminish, lessen: cadunt vires, Lucr. 5, 410: mercenarii milites pretia militiae casura in pace aegre ferebant, Liv. 34, 36, 7.—More freq. in an extended signif. (acc. to I. B. 2.),
F To lose all one's strength, worth, value, etc., to fall, to perish, vanish, decay, cease.
1 In gen.: pellis item cecidit, vestis contempta ferina. declined in value, Lucr. 5, 1417: turpius est enim privatim cadere (i. e. fortunis everti) quam publice, Cic. Att. 16, 15, 6; so id. Fam. 6, 10, 2: atque ea quidem tua laus pariter cum re publicā cecidit, id. Off. 2, 13, 45: tanta civitas, si cadet, id. Har. Resp. 20, 42: huc cecidisse Germanici exercitus gloriam, ut, etc., Tac. H. 3, 13: non tibi ingredienti fines ira cecidit? Liv. 2, 40, 7; Pers. 5, 91: amicitia nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur, Cic. Lael. 7, 23: animus, to fail, Liv. 1, 11, 3; Ov. M. 11, 537; cf. id. ib. 7, 347: non debemus ita cadere animis, etc., to lose courage, be disheartened, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4: tam graviter, id. Off. 1, 21, 73; cf. Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—Esp., to fail in speaking: magnus orator est... minimeque in lubrico versabitur, et si semel constiterit numquam cadet, Cic. Or. 28, 98: alte enim cadere non potest, id. ib. —So in the lang. of the jurists, causā or formulā, to lose one's cause or suit: causā cadere, Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 57; so id. de Or. 1, 36, 166 sq.; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1; Quint. 7, 3, 17; Luc. 2, 554; Suet. Calig. 39: formulā cadere, Sen. Ep. 48, 10; Quint. 3, 6, 69.—With in: ita quemquam cadere in judicio, ut, etc., Cic. Mur. 28, 58.—Also absol.: cadere, Tac. H. 4, 6; and: criminibus repetundarum, id. ib. 1, 77: conjurationis crimine, id. A. 6, 14: ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum, Ov. M. 13, 435: omniaque ingrato litore vota cadunt, i. e. irrita sunt, remain unfulfilled, unaccomplished, Prop. 1, 17, 4 (diff. from Tib. 2, 2, 17; v. above, D. 2.); cf.: at mea nocturno verba cadunt zephyro, Prop. 1, 16, 34: multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, to fall into disuse, grow out of date, Hor. A. P. 70 —Hence of theatrical representations, to fall through, to fail, be condemned (opp. stare, to win applause; the fig. derived from combatants): securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176.—Impers.. periculum est, ne cadatur, Aug. Don. Persev. 1.—
2 Esp. of the wind (opp. surgo), to abate, subside, die away, etc.: cadit Eurus et umida surgunt Nubila, Ov. M. 8, 2: ventus premente nebulā cecidit, Liv. 29, 27, 10: cadente jam Euro, id. 25, 27, 11: venti vis omnis cecidit, id. 26, 39, 8: ubi primum aquilones ceciderunt, id. 36, 43, 11; cf.: sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, Verg. A. 1, 154: ventosi ceciderunt murmuris aurae, id. E. 9, 58; id. G. 1, 354 Serv. and Wagn.—
Rhet. and gram. t. t. of words, syllables, clauses, etc., to be terminated, end, close: verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt, Cic. Or. 57, 194; 67, 223: qua (littera sc. m) nullum Graece verbum cadit, Quint. 12, 10, 31: plerique censent cadere tantum numerose oportere terminarique sententiam, Cic. Or. 59, 199; so id. Brut. 8, 34: apto cadens oratio, Quint. 9, 4, 32: numerus opportune cadens, id. 9, 4, 27: ultima syllaba in gravem vel duas graves cadit semper, id. 12, 10, 33 Spald.: similiter cadentia = όμοιόπτωτα, the ending of words with the same cases or verbal forms, diff. from similiter desinentia = όμοιοτέλευτα, similar endings of any kind, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Or. 34, 135; Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28; Quint. 9, 4, 42; cf. id. 9, 4, 18; 9, 3, 78; 9, 3, 79; 1, 7, 23; Aquil. Rom. Figur. §§ 25 and 26.
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cădō,⁶ cĕcĭdī, cāsum, ĕre, intr., tomber
1 [en parl. des choses et des êtres animés] tomber, choir : homini ilico lacrumæ cadunt Ter. Ad. 536, aussitôt les larmes lui tombent des yeux ; cadentes guttæ Cic. de Or. 3, 186, gouttes d’eau qui tombent ; puto saxum tamen casurum fuisse Cic. Fato 6, je pense que le rocher serait tombé quand même ; in terram cadentibus corporibus Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, les corps tombant à terre ; si de cælo cadit (ignis) Sen. Nat. 2, 13, 1, si ce feu tombe du ciel (cælo Virg. G. 1, 487 ); cadunt de montibus umbræ Virg. B. 1, 83, l’ombre tombe des montagnes
