I.fut. deperiet for -ibit, Vulg. Eccl. 31, 7), 4, v. n., to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone.
I. In gen. (class.): “neque adaugescit quicquam neque deperit inde (sc. de materia),” Lucr. 2, 296: “tempestate naves,” Caes. B. G. 5, 23: “perexigua pars illius exercitus superest, magna pars deperiit,” id. B. C. 3, 87; cf. id. B. G. 7, 31, 4: si servus deperisset, had been lost (by death or flight), Cic. Top. 3, 15: “ut scida ne qua depereat,” id. Att. 1, 20 fin.: “qui deperiit minor uno mense vel anno,” has died, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40 et saep.: “(auro) rerum uni nihil igne deperit,” Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 59: “decor vultus ejus deperiit,” faded, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 11.—
II. In partic., to be desperately in love with, dying with love for a person (not in Cic., neither in Verg., Hor., nor Ovid, but freq. in Plaut.).—Constr.: aliquem (amore), more rarely alicujus amore, in aliquo; and absol.: “ut hic te efflictim deperit,” Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19: “aliquam (with deamare),” id. Ep. 2, 2, 35: “aliquam,” id. Cas. 1, 1, 19; id. Bac. 3, 3, 66 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 14; “Catull. 100, 2: amore aliquam deperire,” Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43; cf.: “illum deperit impotente amore, Catull. 35, 12: amore mulierculae,” Liv. 27, 15; cf.: “amore sui,” Suet. Vesp. 22: “cum laceratum corpus, in quo deperibat, intueretur,” Curt. 8, 6, 8.—Absol.: “rogas? deperit,” Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 62.
