dispereo: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>dis-pĕrĕo</b>: ii, 4,<br /><b>I</b> v. n., to go [[completely]] to [[ruin]], to be [[lost]] or [[undone]], to [[perish]] ([[rare]]; [[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]].): [[quin]] [[prius]] disperibit faxo, [[quam]] unam calcem civerit, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 86: [[fructus]] dispereunt, Varr. R. R. 1, 11, 1; cf. Col. 12, 46, 2: [[fundus]], * Cic. Agr. 2, 29, 80: disperit [[cibus]], Lucr. 3, 704: [[vestis]] [[multo]] [[sanguine]], id. 5, 1422; id. 4, 376; 5, 288 al.: tui labores, Cat. 14, 11.— Prov.: [[male]] partum [[male]] disperit, [[light]] [[come]], [[light]] go, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 22 (for [[which]] dilabitur, Poëta ap. Cic. Phil. 2, 27). —<br /><b>II</b> In colloq. lang.: disperii! I am [[undone]]! it's all [[over]] [[with]] me! Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 28; id. Aul. 2, 2, 65; id. Cas. 5, 3, 2; id. Most. 2, 1, 28 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 24; id. Ad. 3, 3, 1; Afran. ap. Non. 110, 13; for [[which]] [[once]] Dispereo! Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 12: Dispeream, si or [[nisi]], [[may]] I [[perish]], if or if not; a [[strong]] [[asseveration]], Cat. 92, 2, 4; Prop. 2, 21, 9 (3, 14, 9 M.); Hor. S. 1, 9, 47; Suet. Tib. 59 al.