(adjective) : fūnestus, a, um, funus.
* Act., causing death, destruction, or calamity; causing grief; deadly, fatal, destructive, calamitous, mournful, dismal (class.; syn.: nefarius, perniciosus; fatalis, fatifer): ad ejus (C. Verris) funestam securem servati,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 123; cf.: deorum templis atque delubris funestos ac nefarios ignes inferre,id. Cat. 3, 9, 22: arma,Ov. F. 1, 521: venenum,id. M. 3, 49: morsus,id. ib. 11, 373: munus,id. ib. 2, 88: taxus,id. ib. 4, 432; cf. taeda,Verg. A. 7, 322: scelus,Phaedr. 3, 10, 50.—Comp.: funestior dies Alliensis pugnae, quam urbis captae,Cic. Att. 9, 5, 2.—Sup.: Caligula sceleratissimus ac funestissimus,Eutr. 7, 12.
* With dat.: aquilam argenteam, quam tibi perniciosam et funestam futuram confido,Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24: o diem illum funestum senatui bonisque omnibus!id. Sest. 12, 27; cf.: nox nobis,id. Fl. 41, 103: victoria orbi terrarum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 3.
* Neutr., filled with misfortune or grief, fatal, mournful, sad (class.; syn.: infaustus, infelix, etc.): agros funestos reddere,Lucr. 6, 1139: capilli,Ov. F. 6, 493: utque manus funestas arceat aris,i. e. polluted with blood,id. M. 11, 584: familia,in mourning,Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 55; Liv. 2, 8, 8; 2, 47, 10: adeo ut annales velut funesti nihil praeter nomina consulum suggerant,as if they were lists of the dead,id. 4, 20, 9; cf. epistolae, announcing misfortune or sad tidings, Vell. 2, 117, 1: funestior advolat alter Nuntius,Claud. in Eutr. 2, 474; cf.: nocturna volucris funesta querela,Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 5; hence also: omen,id. 2, 28, 38 (3, 25, 4 M.): littera,denoting death, mourning,Ov. M. 10, 216: manus, mourning (of a dowager), id. ib. 11, 585: funestum est a forti atque honesto viro jugulari, funestius ab eo, cujus vox, etc.,Cic. Quint. 31, 95.

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