morbus | Morbus, personified as a deity (noun M) : Sanscr. mar-, die; Gr. βροτός (for μροτός), μαραίνω; cf. morior, marceo
* A sickness, disease, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady, of body or mind (class.).
* Corporeal: morbum appellant totius corporis corruptionem: aegrotationem morbum cum imbecillitate: vitium cum partes corporis inter se dissident: ex quo pravitas membrorum, distortio, deformitas,Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 28: morbus est habitus cujusque corporis contra naturam, qui usum ejus facit deteriorem, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 3: morbi aegrotationesque,Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: aeger morbo gravi,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: in morbo esse,to be sick,id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: morbo affectum esse,id. Div. 1, 30, 63: corporis gravioribus morbis vitae jucunditas impeditur,id. Fin. 1, 18, 59: animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt,id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: affligi,id. Pis. 35, 85: urgeri,id. Fat. 9, 17: tabescere,id. N. D. 3, 35, 84: languere,Lucr. 6, 1221: conflictari,Nep. Dion. 2, 4: in morbum cadere,to fall sick,Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: incidere,id. Clu. 62, 175: delabi,id. Att. 7, 5, 1: morbum nancisci,Nep. Att. 21, 1: morbo consumi,id. Reg. 2, 1: perire,id. ib. 3, 3: mori,id. Them. 10, 4: absumi,Sall. J. 5, 6: confici,id. ib. 9, 4: opprimi,Cic. Clu. 7, 22: homo aeger morbo gravi,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: ex morbo convalescere,to recover,id. Fam. 13, 29, 4: a morbo valere,Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26: morbum depellere,Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2: levare,to alleviate, relieve,Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 57: amplior fit,becomes more violent,Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 50: adgravescit,id. ib. 3, 2, 2: ingravescit,Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: comitialis or major,epilepsy,Cels. 3, 23: regius,the jaundice,id. 3, 24: in morbo consumat, a form of imprecation, may he spend it (the money) in sickness, Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2.
* Mental.
* Disease, a fault, vice, etc.: animi morbi sunt cupiditates immensae, et inanes, divitiarum, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59: morbum et insaniam,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum,id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: hic morbus qui est in re publicā, ingravescet,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: ut, si qui aegrotet, quo morbo Barrus,Hor. S. 1, 6, 30: maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem,id. ib. 2, 3, 121: qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur,Juv. 2, 17.
* Trop., of trees, plants, etc.: infestantur namque et arbores morbis,a disease,Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 116 al.
* The son of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Sen. Herc. Fur. 694; cf. Verg. A. 6, 275; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 323.

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