immorior
ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος → I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
immŏrĭor: (inm-), mortuus, 3,
I v. dep. n. [in-morior, to die in or upon any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).—Constr. with dat. and rarely in aliqua re.
I Lit.: illa sorori immoritur, Ov. M. 6, 296: hastae, Val. Fl. 6, 570: fortiter Euxinis aquis, Ov. P. 3, 7, 40; cf.: ipsis aquis, id. M. 7, 572: stellio immortuus vino, Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 73: apes immortuae in melle, id. 29, 6, 38, § 128: non exigo, ut immoriaris legationi, immorare, Auct. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 73: tormentis, Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 6: saepe tormentis pro silentio rerum creditarum immortui, Just. 44, 2, 3.—Of things: manus immortua, dying, withering, Luc. 3, 613: aura superstes Immoritur velis, i. e. dies away, Stat. Th. 1, 481.—*
II Trop.: immoritur studiis (dat. = macerat et enecat se opere rustico exercendo), he pines away, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85.
