deficies
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deficio, deficere, defeci, defectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fail, disappoint, let down; leave without a sufficiency; cease to be available;; (PASS) be left without/wanting, lack; have shortcomings; L:come to nothing;; fail/falter; run short/out; grow weak/faint; come to end; revolt/rebel, defect;; pass away; become extinct, die/fade out; subside/sink; suffer eclipse, wane;
sg. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...triduo legatur? Numquam deliciae supiniores. Lassus tam cito deficis uiator, et cum currere debeas Bouillas, interiungere quaeris..."- L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tamen, quia aliquis plus habet, tanto tibi videris defici quanto vinceris. Honores iudicabis bonum: male te habebit ille..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nocere intendent, tam citra sapientiam omnes eorum impetus deficient quam quae neruo tormentisue in altum exprimuntur, cum extra..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...robusta, si militare iter fascemque et vigilias imperes, deficiant et quaerant unctores suos nudumque sudorem. XXVII. Illa quidem..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...nemo sic in maioribus eminet ut eum minora deficiant: nisi forte Iouem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem..." - M
IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...suis; nam et paupertatis est proprium, quando alia deficiant, exerere libertatem et, dum contemptus fama vitatur, potentiores..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...modi certamine ac proelio nonne, si hominum studia deficiant, di ipsi inmortales cogant ab his praeclarissimis virtutibus..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...serius incidis undis, spectandique mora brumalis porrigis horas; deficis interdum, vitiumque in lumina mentis transit et obscurus mortalia..."
