(verb) : pĕr-ĕo, ĭi (īvi), ĭtum, īre (periet for peribit, Coripp. Johann. 7, 27;
* Perf. perivit, App. M. 4, 21: perīt,Juv. 8, 85: perisset,Lact. 3, 20, 17 al.: perisse,Liv. 1, 49, 1; Ov. Am. 2, 19, 56; fut. periet, Vulg. Sap. 4, 19 al.)
* To pass away, come to nothing; to vanish, disappear, be lost: e patriā,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 5: ecqua inde perisset soror,Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15: ne vena periret aquae,Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16.
* Esp., to pass through, leak, be absorbed (poet.): lymphae Dolium pereuntis,Hor. C. 3, 11, 27; cf.: postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether In gremium matris terrai praecipitavit,Lucr. 1, 250.
* To pass away, to be destroyed, to perish (the predom. and class. signif. of the word; syn.: occĭdo, intereo, obeo).
* In gen.: aedes cum fundamento perierint,Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 69: tantam pecuniam tam brevi tempore perire potuisse,Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11: totum exercitum periturum,Nep. Epam. 7, 4: fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (in the game of chess),let your knight be taken by a pawn,Ov. A. A. 2, 208: causae cur urbes perirent,Hor. C. 1, 16, 19: peritura regna,Verg. G. 2, 498: puppis,Ov. F. 3, 600: Troja peritura,Verg. A. 2, 660: pereunt sole tepente nives,melt away,Ov. F. 3, 236: telum rubigine,Hor. S. 2, 1, 13: comae,Ov. Am. 1, 14, 30: fabae laeso flore,id. F. 5, 267.—Of the crocus: gaudet calcari et atteri, pereundoque melius provenit,Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 34.
* In partic.
* To perish, lose one's life, die (class.): non intellego, quamobrem, si vivere honeste non possunt, perire turpiter velint; aut cur minore dolore perituros se cum multis, quam si soli pereant, arbitrentur,Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21: summo cruciatu supplicioque,id. N. D. 3, 33, 81: fame,id. Inv. 2, 57, 172: eodem leto esse pereundum,id. Div. 1, 26, 56: morbo,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 86: naufragio,Cic. Deiot. 9, 25: hominum manibus,Verg. A. 3, 606: uterque juravit, periturum inter nos secretum,that it should perish with us,Petr. 21: ab Hannibale,at his hands,Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189: perire turpiter,Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21: fortiter,Hor. S. 2, 3, 42: generosius,id. C. 1, 37, 21: a morbo,Nep. Reg. 3, 3.
* Trop., of moral qualities, etc.: pudor periit,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 81: fides,id. Truc. 1, 1, 24: virtus,Ov. F. 2, 227.
* To be lost, wasted, spent in vain: ne et oleum et opera perierit,Cic. Att. 2, 17, 1: tempora,Ov. R. Am. 107: labor,id. M. 1, 273: nullus perit otio dies,Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14: ne nummi pereant,Hor. S. 1, 2, 133: minae,Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 25: aurum,Col. 11, 1, 29; cf. actiones,Liv. 39, 18.
* To be lost, ruined, undone: quid fieri tum potuit? jampridem perieramus,Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1: meo vitio pereo,id. ib. 11, 9, 1.—Hence, perii, etc., as an exclamation of despair, I am lost! I'm undone! hei mihi, disperii! vocis non habeo satis: vicini, interii, perii,Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 36: perii, interii, occidi! quo curram! quo non curram?id. Aul. 4, 9, 1: perii animo,am disheartened,id. Rud. 2, 6, 26; cf.: ingenio perii,Ov. Tr. 2, 2; Lucr. 4, 1136: periimus, actum est,we are lost, it is all over with us,Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 26: perierat et inventus est,Vulg. Luc. 24, 32; 15, 6.—So, peream, si, nisi, in asseverations, may I perish, may I die, if or if not, Ov. H. 17, 183; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 4; Ov. P. 3, 5, 47; id. H. 17, 183.—Gerund and gerundive: nisi illud perdo argentum, pereundum est mihi,Plaut. As. 1, 3, 91; Prop. 2, 1, 53: pereundi figurae,Ov. H. 10, 81: pereundi terminus,Sil. 3, 559: puppis pereunda est probe,must be lost,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 70.

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