verb intransitive

dēpĕrĕo

2nd PP dē-pĕrēre · 3rd PP dē-pĕrii · conj. 2nd

(fut. deperiet for -ibit, Vulg. Eccl. 31, 7), 4

to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone

to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone.

had been lost in general ••

In gen. (class.): neque adaugescit quicquam neque deperit inde (sc. de materia), Lucr. 2, 296: tempestate naves, Caes. B. G. 5, 23: perexigua pars illius exercitus superest, magna pars deperiit, id. B. C. 3, 87; cf. id. B. G. 7, 31, 4: si servus deperisset, had been lost (by death or flight), Cic. Top. 3, 15: ut scida ne qua depereat, id. Att. 1, 20 fin.: qui deperiit minor uno mense vel anno, has died, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40 et saep.: (auro) rerum uni nihil igne deperit, Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 59: decor vultus ejus deperiit, faded, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 11.—

to be desperately in love with, dying with love for absol ••

In partic., to be desperately in love with, dying with love for a person (not in Cic., neither in Verg., Hor., nor Ovid, but freq. in Plaut.).—Constr.: aliquem (amore), more rarely alicujus amore, in aliquo; and absol.: ut hic te efflictim deperit, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19: aliquam (with deamare), id. Ep. 2, 2, 35: aliquam, id. Cas. 1, 1, 19; id. Bac. 3, 3, 66 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 14; Catull. 100, 2: amore aliquam deperire, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43; cf.: illum deperit impotente amore, Catull. 35, 12: amore mulierculae, Liv. 27, 15; cf.: amore sui, Suet. Vesp. 22: cum laceratum corpus, in quo deperibat, intueretur, Curt. 8, 6, 8.—Absol.: rogas? deperit, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 62.

Perseus ID: n13174 Key: depereo