(verb) : occumbo (obc-), cŭbui, cŭbĭtum, 3, ob-cumbo, cubo
* To fall or sink down (cf.: occido, obeo, oppeto); hence
* To go down, to set, of the heavenly bodies (postclass.): cometes cum oriretur occumberetque,Just. 37, 2, 3: cum sol occumberet,Vulg. Gen. 15, 12; id. 3 Reg. 22, 36.
* To fall dying, to die (the class. signif. of the word); constr. absol. or with mortem, morte, or morti.
* Absol.: cum veter occubuit Priamus, fell, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 607 P. (Ann. v. 17 Vahl.): aut occubuissem honeste, aut victores hodie viveremus,Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: pro libertate cos occubuisse, Suet. Aug. 12 fin.: circa se dimicans occubuerat,id. Tit. 4: fertur et ante annos occubuisse suos,Ov. A. A. 3, 18: dederat ne ferro occumbere posset,id. M. 12, 207: acie,Suet. Ner. 2.
* Like accumbere, to lie at table, Afran. ap. Non. 97, 29.
* With morti (perh. only poet.): pro vostrā vitā morti occumbant obviam. Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 62 (Trag. v. 176 Vahl.); so, certae morti, Verg. A. l. l.: neci,Ov. M. 15, 499.
* To succumb to, fall by the hand of one (poet.).—With dat.: Rullo ditissimus agri Occumbis,Sil. 5, 260; Claud. B. Get. 74.—With per: per te vidit Vulcani occumbere prolem,Ov. M. 7, 437. —*

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