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* Fut. deperiet for -ibit, Vulg. Eccl. 31, 7), 4, v. n., to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone.
* 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.
* 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.

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