Lewis Short
(verb) : dormĭo, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (
* Futur. dormibo, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 100: dormibit,Cato R. R. 5, 5), Sanscr. R. drā-, drayami, I sleep; Gr. δαρθάνω, to sleep (cf.: dormito, sopio, sterto).
* Lit., sup.: Quin tu is dormitum? Ph. Dormio, ne occlamites, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 27; cf.: ire dormitum,id. Most. 3, 2, 4; 16; id. Ps. 2, 2, 70; Hor. S. 1, 5, 48; 1, 6, 119 et saep.; cf. also: dormitum dimittitur,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 73.—Pass. impers.: minimum dormitur in illo (lecto),Juv. 6, 269.—Prov.: non omnibus dormio,Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 1; cf.: proverbium videtur natum a Cipio quodam, qui Pararhenchon dictus est, quod simularet dormientem, quo impunitius uxor ejus moecharetur; ejus meminit Lucilius,Fest. p. 173, 5 sq. Müll.: in utramvis aurem dormire, v. auris, I.
* Poet., in the pass., of time, to be slept through, spent in sleep: nox est perpetua una dormienda,Cat. 5, 6: tota mihi dormitur hiems,Mart. 13, 59.
* Trop.
* Praegn.: dormire cum aliquo, of sexual intercourse,Juv. 6, 34; 376; Ov. H. 19, 57; Vulg. Gen. 19, 32 et saep.
* To rest, be at ease, inactive: hoc vide ut dormiunt pessuli pessumi,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 67; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 59; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70; Prop. 3, 6, 34 (4, 5, 34 M.); Juv. 2, 37; Mart. 10, 62.
* To be careless, unconcerned: uxorem duxit ... et inde filiam Suscepit jam unam, dum tu dormis,Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 18; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, and in eccl. Lat., to be careless in spiritual things, unawakened, Vulg. 1 Cor. 11, 30 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary