morbus: Difference between revisions

{{Lewis

|lshtext=<b>morbus</b>: i, m. Sanscr. [[mar]]-, [[die]]; Gr. [[βροτός]] (for μροτός), [[μαραίνω]]; cf. [[morior]], [[marceo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[sickness]], [[disease]], [[disorder]], [[distemper]], [[ailment]], [[illness]], [[malady]], of [[body]] or [[mind]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Corporeal: morbum appellant totius corporis corruptionem: aegrotationem morbum cum imbecillitate: [[vitium]] cum partes corporis [[inter]] se dissident: ex quo [[pravitas]] membrorum, [[distortio]], [[deformitas]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 28: [[morbus]] est [[habitus]] cujusque corporis [[contra]] naturam, qui usum ejus facit deteriorem, [[Labeo]] ap. Gell. 4, 2, 3: morbi aegrotationesque, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: [[aeger]] morbo gravi, id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: in morbo esse, to be [[sick]], id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: morbo affectum esse, id. Div. 1, 30, 63: corporis gravioribus morbis vitae jucunditas impeditur, id. Fin. 1, 18, 59: animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt, id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: affligi, id. Pis. 35, 85: urgeri, id. Fat. 9, 17: tabescere, id. N. D. 3, 35, 84: languere, Lucr. 6, 1221: conflictari, Nep. [[Dion]]. 2, 4: in morbum cadere, to [[fall]] [[sick]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: incidere, id. Clu. 62, 175: delabi, id. Att. 7, 5, 1: morbum nancisci, Nep. Att. 21, 1: morbo consumi, id. Reg. 2, 1: perire, id. ib. 3, 3: mori, id. Them. 10, 4: absumi, Sall. J. 5, 6: confici, id. ib. 9, 4: opprimi, Cic. Clu. 7, 22: [[homo]] [[aeger]] morbo gravi, id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: ex morbo convalescere, to [[recover]], id. Fam. 13, 29, 4: a morbo valere, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26: morbum depellere, Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2: levare, to [[alleviate]], [[relieve]], Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 57: amplior [[fit]], becomes [[more]] [[violent]], Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 50: adgravescit, id. ib. 3, 2, 2: ingravescit, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: [[comitialis]] or major, epilepsy, Cels. 3, 23: [[regius]], the [[jaundice]], id. 3, 24: in morbo consumat, a form of [[imprecation]], [[may]] he [[spend]] it (the [[money]]) in [[sickness]], Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Mental.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Disease, a [[fault]], [[vice]], etc.: animi morbi sunt cupiditates immensae, et inanes, divitiarum, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59: morbum et insaniam, id. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: [[nomen]] insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum, id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: hic [[morbus]] qui est in re publicā, ingravescet, id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: ut, si qui aegrotet, quo morbo [[Barrus]], Hor. S. 1, 6, 30: maxima [[pars]] hominum morbo jactatur [[eodem]], id. ib. 2, 3, 121: qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur, Juv. 2, 17.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Grief, [[sorrow]], [[distress]]: [[quod]] [[mulier]] facere incepit, [[nisi]] id efficere perpetrat, Id [[illi]] morbo, id [[illi]] [[senio]] est, [[affliction]], [[distress]], Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12; cf.: salvere me jubes, [[quoi]] tu [[abiens]] offers morbum? id. As. 3, 3, 3.—<br /><b>III</b> Trop., of trees, plants, etc.: infestantur [[namque]] et arbores morbis, a [[disease]], Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 116 al.—<br /> Morbus, personified as a [[deity]], the [[son]] of [[Erebus]] and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Sen. Herc. Fur. 694; cf. Verg. A. 6, 275; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 323.

}}