I.death (ante-class., and in the class. period mostly poet.): ollus apparet in funeribus indictivis, cum dicitur: ollus leto datus est (qs. was given up to oblivion), Varr. L. L. 7, § 42 Müll.—The phrase leto datus, dead: leto dare, to kill, often occurs: “sos leto datos divos habento,” Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: quorum liberi leto dati sunt in bello, Enn. ap. Non. 15, 13 (Trag. v. 378 Vahl.): “qui te leto dabit,” Pac. ib. 355, 18 (Trag. Rel. p. 79 Rib.); Verg. A. 5, 806; 11, 172; 12, 328; Ov. H. 2, 147: “utrumque largus leto dedit ingenii fons,” Juv. 10, 119; Phaedr. 1, 21, 9; 3, 16, 18: letum inimico deprecer, Enn. ap. Gell. 6, 16, 10 (Trag. v. 162 Vahl.): “emortuus leto malo,” Plaut. Aul. 4, 5, 1: “letum sibi consciscere,” id. Mil. 4, 6, 26: “responde, quo leto censes ut peream,” id. Merc. 2, 4, 15: “leto offerre caput,” Lucr. 3, 1041: “mortis letique potitus,” id. 4, 766: “eodem sibi leto, quo ipse interisset, esse pereundum,” Cic. Div. 1, 26, 56: “turpi leto perire,” id. Att. 10, 10, 5: “ferre (alicui),” Verg. A. 11, 872: “leto sternendus,” id. ib. 8, 566: “sibi parere manu,” id. ib. 6, 434: “ostentant omnia letum,” Cat. 64, 187: “leto jam mala finissem,” Tib. 2, 6, 19: “leto adimere aliquem,” to save from death, Hor. C. 3, 22, 3: “leto se eripere,” Verg. A. 2, 134: “pari leto affici,” Nep. Reg. 3, 2: “me pessimo leto adficere,” Liv. 22, 53, 11: “novo genere leti mergi,” id. 1, 51, 9; 2, 40, 10: “oppetere,” id. 45, 26.—
B. Personified: “consanguineus Leti Sopor,” Verg. A. 6, 278. —