pernĭcĭes (noun F) : (old form of the
* Gen. pernicii or pernici, Sisenn. ap. Gell. 9, 14, 12, and ap. Non. 486, 30; Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131, acc. to Gell. 9, 14, 19, and acc. to Non. 486, 28. But Charis., p. 53 P., gives for the passages of Cicero above cited the form pernicies; cf., also,Diom. p. 281 P.—Dat. pernicie, Liv. 5, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.: pernicii,Nep. 8, 2; v. also, permities), f. perneco, destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, disaster, calamity (syn.: exitium, labes).
* Lit.: quantā in pernicie siet,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 29: de pernicie populi Romani et exitio hujus urbis,Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: videbam perniciem meam cum magnā calamitate rei publicae esse conjunctam,id. ib. 1, 5, 11: perniciem rei publicae moliens,id. ib. 1, 2, 5: cum tuā peste ac pernicie cumque eorum exitio, qui, etc.,id. ib. 1, 13, 33: incumbere ad perniciem alicujus,id. Mur. 28, 59: in apertam perniciem incurrere,id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: ad perniciem vocari,id. de Or. 2, 9, 35: Romanos inferendae pernicii causā venisse, Sisenn. ap. Gell. and Non. 1. 1.: alicui perniciem machinari,Sall. C. 18, 7: perniciem invenire sibi et aliis,Tac. A. 1, 74: pernicies in accusatorem vertit,id. ib. 11, 37; id. H. 3, 27: in nepotum Perniciem,Hor. C. 2, 13, 4.
* Transf., concr., a person or thing that is ruinous or baleful, destruction, ruin, bane, pest: egredere, erilis pernicies, ex aedibus,Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 3 Lorenz (Ritschl, permicies): perlecebrae, pernicies, adulescentum exitium,id. As. 1, 2, 7: legirupa, pernicies adulescentum,id. Ps. 1, 3, 130; cf.: leno, pernicies communis adulescentium,Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 34: pernicies provinciae Siciliae,i. e. Verres,Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 2: illam perniciem exstinxit ac sustulit,i. e. Clodius,id. Mil. 31, 84: lymphae vini pernicies,Cat. 27, 5: eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi,id. 76, 20: pernicies et tempestas barathrumque macelli,Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31.—Of animals, Col. 8, 14, 9.

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