I.perf. sync. consumpsti, Prop. 1, 3, 37; inf. consumpse, Lucr. 1, 234), v. a., to take wholly or completely, i. e.,
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): “vasti surgunt immensis torquibus orbes, tergaque consumunt pelagus,” take up, completely cover, Manil. 5, 584: “tela omnia solus pectore consumo,” Sil. 5, 640; cf.: “clipeo tela,” id. 10, 129: “jugulo ensem,” Stat. Th. 10, 813: “ferrum pectore,” id. ib. 12, 745; cf. id. Achill. 2, 205; Dig. 26, 7, 54.—
B. In partic., of food, to eat, consume, devour (class.): “agri multa efferunt quae vel statim consumantur vel mandentur condita vetustati,” Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151: “frumenta,” Caes. B. G. 6, 43; cf. id. ib. 7, 17; “7, 77: fruges,” Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 27: “vitiatum (aprum),” id. S. 2, 2, 92: “angues,” Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: “draconem,” Suet. Tib. 72: “mensas accisis dapibus,” Verg. A. 7, 125 al.—
II. Transf.
1. In gen., to consume, devour, waste, squander, annihilate, destroy, bring to naught, kill.
a. Of inanimate things: “faciat quod lubet: Sumat, consumat, perdat,” Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 56; cf. Sall. C. 12, 2: “patrimonium per luxuriam,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: “bona paterna,” Quint. 3, 11, 13; 3, 11, 16: “omnem materiam,” Ov. M. 8, 876: omne id aurum in ludos, Liv. 39, 5, 9; Val. Max. 3, 1, 1 fin.; cf. 2. β infra: “omnes fortunas sociorum,” Caes. B. G. 1, 11; cf.: “omnes opes et spes privatas meas,” Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 96, 2 Dietsch: “omnia flammā,” Caes. B. C. 2, 14; cf.: “aedes incendio,” Liv. 25, 7, 6: “domum incendio,” Suet. Calig. 59: “consumpturis viscera mea flammis,” Quint. 6, prooem. § 3: “ viscera fero morsu,” Ov. M. 4, 113: “anulum usu,” id. P. 4, 10, 5; cf.: “ferrum rubigine,” to eat, consume, Curt. 7, 8, 15.—Of time, to spend, pass: “horas multas saepe suavissimo sermone,” Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 5: “dicendo tempus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 96: “diem altercatione,” id. Fam. 1, 2, 1; id. Univ. 1 fin.; id. Fam. 7, 1, 1: “annua tempora,” Lucr. 5, 618: “consumitur vigiliis reliqua pars noctis,” Caes. B. G. 5, 31; id. B. C. 2, 23: “magnam partem diei,” id. B. G. 5, 9 fin.: “omne tempus,” Liv. 29, 33, 9; 24, 14, 10: “dies decem in his rebus,” Caes. B. G. 5, 11: “in eo studio aetatem,” Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2: “tota nox in exinaniendā nave consumitur,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 64; Caes. B. C. 2, 23, 1: “multos dies per dubitationem,” Sall. J. 62, 9; cf. Tac. H. 4, 43 fin.: “omne tempus circa Medeam,” id. Or. 3: “continuum biduum epulando potandoque,” Suet. Tib. 42: precando Tempora cum blandis verbis, to waste or lose time and words in supplications, Ov. M. 2, 575: “multis diebus et laboribus consumptis,” Sall. J. 93, 1: “ubi longa meae consumpsti tempora noctis?” Prop. 1, 3, 37.—Of strength, feeling, voice, etc.: “in quo tanta commoveri actio non posset, si esset consumpta superiore motu et exhausta,” Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 103: “adfectus,” Quint. 2, 13, 13; 4, 2, 120: “spiritus,” id. 11, 3, 53: “vocem instans metus,” Tac. H. 1, 42: “ignominiam,” id. ib. 3, 24: “gratiam rei nimiā captatione,” Quint. 8, 6, 51: “vires ipsā subtilitate,” id. 12, 2, 13: “bona ingenii,” id. 12, 5, 2; 3, 11, 23; cf. Sall. J. 25, 11.—Poet.: cum mare, cum terras consumpserit, aëra tentet, i. e.-seek a refuge therein in vain, Ov. H. 6, 161.—
b. Of living beings.
(α).
To destroy, kill: “si me vis aliqua morbi aut natura ipsa consumpsisset,” Cic. Planc. 37, 90; cf.: “quos fortuna belli consumpserat,” Sall. H. 1, 41, 5 Dietsch: “tantum exercitum fame,” Caes. B. G. 7, 20 fin.; so, “siti,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 41 fin.: “acie,” Vell. 2, 52, 5: “morte,” Tib. 1, 3, 55: “morbo,” Nep. Reg. 2, 1: “senio et maerore,” Liv. 40, 54, 1 al.—Facete: “garrulus hunc consumet,” Hor. S. 1, 9, 33.—
(β).
Rarely, to waste, weaken, enervate: “inediā et purgationibus et vi ipsius morbi consumptus es,” Cic. Fam. 16, 10, 1; cf. Ov. M. 9, 663; “and consumpta membra senectā,” id. ib. 14, 148.—
2. In partic.
a. To divide, make an exhaustive division of (very rare): “inventio in sex partis consumitur,” Auct. Her. 1, 3, 4.—
b. Aliquid in aliquā re, rar. in aliquid or absol. (in Cic. only with in and abl.; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 53), to bestow upon something, to use, employ, spend upon or about something.
(α).
In aliquā re: “pecuniam in agrorum emptionibus,” to lay out, invest, Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 14: “aurum in monumento,” id. ib. 1, 4, 12; Nep. Timoth. 1, 2: “studium in virorum fortium factis memoriae prodendis,” Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 5; cf.: “in armis plurimum studii,” Nep. Epam. 2, 5: “tantum laboris in rebus falsis,” Quint. 12, 11, 15: “curam in re unā,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 48: “ingenium in musicis,” Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 50; cf. id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; id. Sest. 13, 31; Quint. 1, 2, 11.—
(β).
In aliquid (cf. the Gr. ἀναλίσκειν εἴς τι): “tota in dulces consument ubera natos,” Verg. G. 3, 178; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 55. “umorem in arbusta,” Sen. Q. N. 3, 11, 3: “bona paterna in opera publica,” Quint. 3, 11, 13: “pecuniam in monumentum,” Dig. 35, 1, 40 fin.—
