pereo
per-eō
iī or
(rarely) īvī (perīt, Iu.;
perīstī, Pr.; perīsse, L., O.), itūrus,
īre, to pass away, come to nothing, vanish, disappear, be lost: ecqua inde perisset soror, T.: ne vena
periret aquae, O.: lymphae Dolium pereuntis,
H.—To pass away, be destroyed, perish: tantam pecuniam tam
brevi tempore perire: totum exercitum periturum, N.: Fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (at chess), let your knight be
taken by a pawn, O.: causae cur perirent (urbes), H.:
peritura regna, V.: pereunt sole
tepente nives, melt away, O.: telum robigine,
H.—To perish, lose life, die: turpiter: ut intellegeres
statim tibi esse pereundum: naufragio: hominum manibus, V.: gener<*>sius, H.: a
morbo, N.: pereundi mille figurae, forms of
death, O.—Fig., to pine away, fall desperately in love: indigno cum Gallus amore peribat, V: quā pereat
sagittā, H. —To be lost, fail, be wasted, be spent in
vain: ne et oleum et opera perierit: quia multis actiones et res
peribant, lawsuits and property were lost, L.: labor, O.: ne nummi pereant, H.: minae, T.—To be lost, be ruined, be undone: meo vitio pereo.— Esp. 1st pers., as an exclamation of
despair, I am lost! I'm undone!: ingenio perii, O.:
periimus, actum est, we are lost, it is all over with
us, T.: peream, si, etc., may I die, if, etc.,
O.—Fig., of moral qualities, to be lost: virtus,
O.: clament periisse pudorem, H.