nex (noun F) : neco
* Death (syn.: mors, letum).
* Lit.
* A violent death, murder, slaughter (cf.: caedes, occisio): mater terribilem minatur vitae cruciatum et necem, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218 (Trag. v. 44 Vahl.): insidiatori et latroni, quae potest esse injusta nex,Cic. Mil. 4, 10: necem sibi consciscere,id. N. D. 2, 3, 7: vitae necisque potestatem habere in aliquem,Caes. B. G. 1, 10: necem comminari alicui,Suet. Caes. 14: neci dedere,Verg. G. 4, 90: neci demittere,id. A. 2, 85: neci mittere,id. ib. 12, 513: neci dare,id. ib. 12, 341: necem alicui parare,Ov. A. A. 1, 73: neci occumbere,id. M. 15, 499; id. H. 14, 12: eripere necem alicui,Stat. Th. 3, 69: miscere neces,to murder,Val. Fl. 3, 381: gravi nece urgere aliquem,Sen. Herc. Oet. 1833: devotus neci,doomed to death,id. Thyest. 693: vitae necisque potestas, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 8, 1.
* Transf., the blood of the slain: (manūs) imbutae Phrygia nece,Ov. A. A. 2, 714.
* In gen., death, a natural death (rare and post-Aug.): post necem Mithridatis,Just. 42, 1, 1: post necem consulis,Suet. Caes. 5: fata nobis sensum nostrae necis auferunt,Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 21, 7.
* In gen., destruction, ruin, = pernicies, exitium (jurid. Lat.): in necem alicujus,Dig. 38, 5, 1; 36, 4, 5; 15, 1, 21.