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morbus , i, m. Sanscr. mar-, die; Gr. βροτός (for μροτός), μαραίνω; cf. morior, marceo,
I.a sickness, disease, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady, of body or mind (class.).
I. Corporeal: “morbum appellant totius corporis corruptionem: aegrotationem morbum cum imbecillitate: vitium cum partes corporis inter se dissident: ex quo pravitas membrorum, distortio, deformitas,Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 28: morbus est habitus cujusque corporis contra naturam, qui usum ejus facit deteriorem, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 3: “morbi aegrotationesque,Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: “aeger morbo gravi,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: “in morbo esse,to be sick, id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: “morbo affectum esse,id. Div. 1, 30, 63: “corporis gravioribus morbis vitae jucunditas impeditur,id. Fin. 1, 18, 59: “animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt,id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: “affligi,id. Pis. 35, 85: “urgeri,id. Fat. 9, 17: “tabescere,id. N. D. 3, 35, 84: “languere,Lucr. 6, 1221: “conflictari,Nep. Dion. 2, 4: “in morbum cadere,to fall sick, Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 79: “incidere,id. Clu. 62, 175: “delabi,id. Att. 7, 5, 1: “morbum nancisci,Nep. Att. 21, 1: “morbo consumi,id. Reg. 2, 1: “perire,id. ib. 3, 3: “mori,id. Them. 10, 4: “absumi,Sall. J. 5, 6: “confici,id. ib. 9, 4: “opprimi,Cic. Clu. 7, 22: “homo aeger morbo gravi,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: “ex morbo convalescere,to recover, id. Fam. 13, 29, 4: “a morbo valere,Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26: “morbum depellere,Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2: “levare,to alleviate, relieve, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 57: “amplior fit,becomes more violent, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 50: “adgravescit,id. ib. 3, 2, 2: “ingravescit,Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: “comitialis or major,epilepsy, Cels. 3, 23: “regius,the jaundice, id. 3, 24: in morbo consumat, a form of imprecation, may he spend it (the money) in sickness, Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2.—
II. Mental.
A. Disease, a fault, vice, etc.: animi morbi sunt cupiditates immensae, et inanes, divitiarum, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59: “morbum et insaniam,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: “nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum,id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9: “hic morbus qui est in re publicā, ingravescet,id. Cat. 1, 13, 31: “ut, si qui aegrotet, quo morbo Barrus,Hor. S. 1, 6, 30: “maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem,id. ib. 2, 3, 121: “qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur,Juv. 2, 17.—
B. Grief, sorrow, distress: “quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id efficere perpetrat, Id illi morbo, id illi senio est,affliction, distress, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12; cf.: “salvere me jubes, quoi tu abiens offers morbum?id. As. 3, 3, 3.—
III. Trop., of trees, plants, etc.: “infestantur namque et arbores morbis,a disease, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 116 al.
IV. Morbus , personified as a deity, the son of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Sen. Herc. Fur. 694; cf. Verg. A. 6, 275; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 323.
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