defio
χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēfīo: ĕri, v. deficio.
Latin > German (Georges)
dē-fio, fierī, Passiv zu deficio (s. Prisc. 8, 34), a) dahinschwinden, ausgehen, aufhören, abnehmen, ita animus per oculos meos meus defit, Plaut. mil. 1261: defit calori congregatio ac rursus eruptio, Sen. nat. qu. 6, 13, 6: eadem autem, quae crescente lunā gliscunt, deficiente contra defiunt, Gell. 20, 8, 5. – b) ausgehen, abgehen, mangeln, fehlen (Ggstz. superesse), neque defiat (obsonium) neque supersit, Plaut. Men. 221: aliis quia defit quod amant aegre est; tibi quia superest dolet, Ter. Phorm. 162: nil quom est, nil defit tamen, Ter. eun. 243: et nullo vacuus tempore defit amor, Prop. 1, 1, 34: numquamne causa defiet, cur victi pacto non stetis? Liv. 9, 11, 6: si (sal) defit, Vitr. 5, 9, 8: si quid forte in corpore defit spiritus, Vitr. 8. praef. § 3: donec sentiret sensum defieri, Sen. contr. 2, 6 (14), 8: cum viderent multa ad splendorem domus atque victus defieri, Gell. 1, 14, 1. – m. Dat. (wem?), pol mihi fortuna magis nunc defit quam genus, Enn. fr. scen. 354: id unum incommodis defit meis, Acc. tr. 350: nihil apud me tibi defieri patiar, Ter. Hec. 768: lac mihi non aestate novum, non frigore defit, Verg. ecl. 2, 22: magna fecundis cum messibus area defit, Priap. 53, 3 M. m. cod. Vat. (Bücheler desit). – c) der Zeitdauer nach nicht ausreichen, zu kurz sein, omnia iterum vis memorari, scelus, ut defiat dies, Plaut. rud. 1107.
