I.to fall down, fall.
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (rare): “et alia Signa de caelo ad terram occidunt,” Plaut. Rud. prol. 8: ut alii super alios occiderent, Liv. 21, 35: “arbores ita inciderant, ut momento levi impulsae occiderent,” id. 23, 24.—
B. In partic.
1. Of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set (class.): prope jam occidente sole, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24: “soles occidere, et redire possunt: Nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda,” Cat. 5, 4: “Capra, Aquila, Canicula,” Col. 11, 2, 94: “occasura pars caeli,” i. e. western, Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 92: SOL OCCASVS SVPREMA TEMPESTAS ESTO, i. e. sundown, sunset, Lex XII. Tab.; cf. Gell. 17, 2, 10 (Varr. L. L. 6, § 5 Müll., gives, instead of it, OCCASVS SOLIS; v. 2. occasus); so, “ante solem obcasum,” before sunset, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 41: “donec lux occidat,” Juv. 13, 158.—Fig.: “non occidet ultra sol tuus,” Vulg. Isa. 60, 20.—
2. Pregn., to fall, perish, die (class.; “syn.: obeo, pereo, intereo): exstincto calore, occidimus ipsi et extinguimur,” Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 23: “in bello,” id. Fam. 9, 5, 2: “Eudemus proelians ad Syracusas occidit,” id. Div. 1, 25, 53: “sperans hostium saevitiā facile eum occasurum,” Sall. J. 7, 2: “occiderit ferro Priamus?” Verg. A. 2, 581: dextrā suā, to die by one's own hand (by suicide), id. ib. 12, 659: “minimo vulnere,” Ov. M. 6, 265.—
II. Transf., to perish, be ruined, lost, etc.
A. Of persons: “sin plane occidimus,” Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 4.—So, esp., occidi, an exclamation of despair, I am lost, undone, Plaut. Stich. 2, 3, 75; Ter. And. 3, 4, 26: “nulla sum, nulla sum: tota tota occidi,” Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 1: “occidimus funditus,” Verg. A. 11, 413.—
B. Of things: “non hercle occiderunt mihi etiam fundique atque aedes,” I have not yet lost, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 72: “occidit spes nostra,” is gone, id. Most. 2, 1, 2: “lumen (oculorum),” Lucr. 3, 414: “dolus,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 6: “causa,” Lucr. 2, 790: “rem publicam occidere,” Cic. Dom. 30, 96: “vita,” id. Tusc. 1, 45, 109: “occidit ornatus (mundi),” perishes, id. Ac. 2, 38, 119: “vestra beneficia occasura esse,” id. Mil. 36, 100.—Hence, occĭdens , entis, P. a.; as subst., m., the quarter of the setting sun, the west, the occident (class.): “ab oriente ad occidentem,” Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164: “vel occidentis usque ad ultimum sinum,” Hor. Epod. 1, 13: “cui se oriens occidensque submiserat,” Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112: “validissima in se civium arma viribus occidentis coepta,” Tac. H. 2, 6: partes mundi, Paul. ex Fest. p. 339 Müll.
