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|lshtext=<b>dēbĭlĭto</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[debilis]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[lame]], [[cripple]], [[maim]]; to debilitate, [[unnerve]], [[disable]], [[weaken]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Of [[personal]] objects: gladiatores, qui debilitati fuerint, Gai. Inst. 3, § 146: contusi ac debilitati [[inter]] saxa rupesque, Liv. 21, 40: corpore debilitantur (saucii), Cic. Caecin. 15, 42: casu debilitatus, Tac. A. 4, 63: lapsu debilitatus, * Suet. Aug. 43 (cf. [[shortly]] [[after]], qui et [[ipse]] [[crus]] fregerat): qui filium debilitavit, ut [[inhabilis]] militiae [[sit]], Dig. 49, 16, 4, § 12; Ov. M. 13, 112: natantium [[manus]] lacerabant, [[donec]] debilitati, etc., Curt. 4, 3, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Of [[inanimate]] objects: membra, quae debilitavit lapidibus, fustibus, Cic. Fl. 30, 73: vim ferro ac viribus, id. Marc. 3: [[lingua]] Debilitata malis, * Lucr. 6, 1150: [[opes]] adversariorum debilitatae, Nep. Ages. 5, 2: cibum [[etiam]] [[saepe]] subtrahunt, ut [[fame]] debilitetur eculeorum [[nimis]] effrenata vis, Cic. Hortens. Frag. 78 Bait. (Non., p. 105, 7).—Poet.: ([[hiems]]) quae [[nunc]] oppositis debilitat pumicibus [[mare]] Tyrrhenum, i. e. breaks its waves ( = collidit), Hor. Od. 1, 11, 5.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Of [[personal]] objects: quo metu debilitaret nostros, Varr. ap. Non. 163, 30: [[simulac]] me fractum ac debilitatum metu viderit, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121; cf.: hunc cum afflictum, debilitatum, maerentem, viderem, id. ib. 2, 47, 195: recitatis literis debilitatus [[atque]] abjectus, [[conscientia]] [[convictus]], [[repente]] conticuit, [[disheartened]], id. Cat. 3, 5, 10: victi debilitantur animosque demittunt, id. Fin. 5, 15, 42: [[sin]] aestivorum [[timor]] te debilitat, id. Fam. 7, 14: quosdam continet [[metus]], quosdam debilitat, Quint. 1, 3, 6 et saep.: debilitati a jure cognoscendo, i. e. [[dispirited]], [[discouraged]] ( = deterriti), Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 142 (cf. [[shortly]] [[before]], a discendo [[deterrent]]).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Of [[inanimate]] objects: [[membrum]] reip. fractum debilitatumque, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3: animos, id. Lael. 7; so Nep. Dat. 6: animum luctu, metu, Cic. Planc. 42, 103: [[nimis]] effrenatam vim [[fame]], id. fragm. ap. Non. 105, 11; cf.: [[vires]] animi ([[senectus]]), * Verg. A. 9, 611: fortitudinem, magnitudinem animi, patientiam ([[dolor]]), Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 76: veritatem multis incommodis, id. Quint. 1, 4: spem meam, id. Att. 5, 4 et saep.: [[versus]], id. de Or. 3, 50: debilitatur ac frangitur [[eloquentia]], Tac. Or. 39.