dormīto — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

dormīto, āvi, 1, v. freq. n. [id.], to be sleepy, drowsy, to begin to sleep, fall asleep. Lit., Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 175; id. Trin. 1, 2, 133; Cic. Att. 2, 16; id. Div. 1, 28, 59; Hor. A. P. 105.— Poet. transf.: jam dormitante lucerna, i. e. going out, Ov. H. 19, 195.— Trop., to be dreaming, sluggish, stupid, slow, to linger: ad hoc diei tempus dormitasti in otio. Quin tu abs te socordiam omnem reice, etc., Plaut. As. 2, 1, 5; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 6; id. Trin. 4, 2, 139 Brix; Hor. A. P. 359; Quint. 10, 1, 24 Spald.; 12, 1, 22: oscitans et dormitans sapientia, Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144: perditio eorum non dormitat, Vulg. 2 Pet. 2, 3.

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