defetiscor: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>dē-fĕtiscor</b>: (in MSS. [[sometimes]] [[defatiscor]]), [[fessus]], 3,<br /><b>I</b> v. dep. n., to [[become]] [[tired]] or wearied; to [[grow]] [[weary]], [[faint]]; to be exhausted. (For syn. v. [[defatigo]]. As a [[verb]]. fin. [[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[rare]], [[but]] [[class]]. and freq. in the [[part]]. perf.): [[neque]] defetiscar experirier, Ter. Ph. 4, 1, 23; so [[with]] inf.: ego [[sum]] [[defessus]] reperire, vos defessi quaerere, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 54 sq. (for [[which]], [[sum]] [[defessus]] quaeritando, id. Am. 4, 1, 6); id. Ep. 2, 2, 13; id. Merc. 4, 5, 3; Lucr. 5, 1145: non si [[quid]] malae pugnae acciderit, defetiscendum, Front. B. Parth.: ego vapulando, [[ille]] verberando [[usque]] [[ambo]] defessi sumus, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 5; so, [[defessus]] [[with]] abl. gerund., id. ib. 4, 6, 1; id. Eun. 5, 7, 7; Afran. ap. Non. 392, 20; Ov. M. 9, 198; cf.: aggerunda [[aqua]] defessi, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 14.—With abl. nominis: diuturnitate pugnae defessi, Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 3; cf. the foll.: [[defessus]] totius diei labore, id. ib. 7, 88, 7; cf. id. B. C. 1, 65 fin.: vulneribus, id. B. G. 1, 25, 5: cultu agrorum, Cic. Agr. 2, 32 fin.: forensibus negotiis [[atque]] urbano opere, id. de Or. 2, 6, 23; 2, 57 fin.: convicio (aures), id. Arch. 6, 12 et saep.: semperque ipsi recentes defessis succederent, Caes. B. G. 7, 25; so opp. [[recens]] or [[integer]], id. ib. 7, 41, 2; id. B. C. 1, 45, 7; 3, 94, 2; Cic. de Or. 3, 36 fin.: defessi Aeneadae, Verg. A. 1, 157; cf. ib. 2, 285; 565: [[defessus]] omnibus medullis, Catul. 55, 30; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 54.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of things: arbores defatiscentes, Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 10: ita defessa ac refrigerata [[accusatio]], weakened, Cic. Verr. 1, 10 fin.; cf. [[oratio]], id. ib. 1, 10, 31: orant defessis subeant rebus, i. e. afflictis, Sil. 1, 566.