moribundus
ὦ δυσπάλαιστον γῆρας, ὡς μισῶ σ' ἔχων, μισῶ δ' ὅσοι χρῄζουσιν ἐκτείνειν βίον, βρωτοῖσι καὶ ποτοῖσι καὶ μαγεύμασι παρεκτρέποντες ὀχετὸν ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν: οὓς χρῆν, ἐπειδὰν μηδὲν ὠφελῶσι γῆν, θανόντας ἔρρειν κἀκποδὼν εἶναι νέοις → Old age, resistless foe, how do I loathe your presence! Them too I loathe, whoever desire to lengthen out the span of life, seeking to turn the tide of death aside by food and drink and magic spells; those whom death should take away to leave the young their place, when they no more can benefit the world
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mŏrĭbundus: a, um, adj. morior.
I Dying (class.): minus valet, moribundus est, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 15: jacentem moribundumque vidistis, Cic. Sest. 39, 85: moribundus procubuit, Liv. 26, 15: anima, Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 3.—Transf.: vox, Stat. Th. 8, 643: membra, mortal, Verg. A. 6, 732; App. de Deo Soc. 4, p. 43 fin.: corpus, id. Mag. 50, p. 306.—
II Act., causing death, i. e. deadly, unwholesome (poet.): moribunda a sede Pisauri, Cat. 81, 3.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mŏrĭbundus,¹¹ a, um (morior), mourant, moribond : Cic. Sest. 85 ; Liv. 26, 15, 15
