I.wearied, tired, fatigued; worn out, weak, feeble, infirm (class.; esp. freq. in poets; syn.: fatigatus, defessus, lassus, languidus).
I. Prop., of living beings: “Romani quamquam itinere atque opere castrorum et proelio fessi lassique erant, tamen, etc.,” Sall. J. 53, 5: “de via fessus,” Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1: “fessum inedia fluctibusque recreare,” id. Planc. 10, 26: “Veientes bello fessi,” id. Div. 1, 44, 100: “militiā fessae cohortes,” Hor. C. 3, 4, 38: “plorando fessus sum,” Cic. Att. 15, 9, 1: “satiate videndi,” Lucr. 2, 1038: “curāque viāque,” Ov. M. 11, 274: “somno,” Tib. 1, 3, 88: “malis,” Ov. M. 9, 293: “aetate,” Verg. A. 2, 596; cf. “annis,” Ov. M. 9, 440: “valetudinibus,” Tac. H. 3, 2: “fessi vomere tauri,” Hor. C. 3, 13, 11: “elephanti fessi aegritudine,” Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3: “exercito corpore fessus,” Sall. J. 71, 1; 70, 2: “cum tibi librum Sollicito damus aut fesso,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 221: “inde Rubos fessi pervenimus,” id. S. 1, 5, 94; so, “viator,” id. ib. 1, 5, 17: “pastor,” id. C. 3, 29, 22: “Graii (sc. bello),” id. ib. 2, 4, 11: “boves,” id. Epod. 2, 63.—
(β).
With gen. (poet.): “fessi rerum,” exhausted with events, misfortunes, Verg. A. 1, 178: “fessus bellique viaeque,” Stat. Th. 3, 395: “trepidi rerum fessique salutis,” despairing of safety, Sil. 2, 234.—With acc.: “agmina fessa gradum,” Sil. 4, 40.—
II. Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “alter fessum vulnere, fessum cursu trahens corpus,” Liv. 1, 25, 11; cf. Hor. C. 2, 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 848: “(Phoebus) qui salutari levat arte fessos Corporis artus,” i. e. sick, diseased, Hor. Carm. Sec. 63: “vox fessa loquendo,” Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 85: “fessa aetas,” i. e. the weakness of age, Tac. A. 14, 33: “fessa aetate Galbae,” id. H. 1, 12: “domus aetatis spatio ne fessa vetusto Obruat,” worn out, decayed, Lucr. 3, 774; cf. id. 5, 308: “cardines fessi et turbati,” Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 120: “(amnes) In mare deducunt fessas erroribus undas,” Ov. M. 1, 582: “naves,” Verg. A. 1, 168; 5, 29: “puppes,” Ov. M. 6, 519; Tib. 2, 5, 46: “carinae,” Ov. M. 11, 393; id. A. A. 3, 748: “vela,” Prop. 3 (4), 21, 19. fessa dies, spent, i. e. drawing to a close, Stat. S. 2, 2, 48: “fessae res,” critical, precarious, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18; “also,” misfortunes, calamities, Verg. A. 3, 145: “rebus succurite fessis,” id. ib. 11, 335: “deligendum esse qui fessis rebus succurreret,” Tac. A. 15, 50.
