I.to strike down, strike to the ground; to beat, smash, crush.
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (very rare): “aliquem pugnis,” Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 20: “occare id est comminuere, ne sit glaeba: quod ita occidunt, occare dictum,” to crush, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 1: “occisum ad mortem,” wounded to death, Vulg. Apoc. 13, 3.—
B. In partic., to strike or cut down; to cut off, kill, slay (class. and very freq.; syn.: interficio, trucido, obtrunco): summus ibi capitur meddix: occiditur alter, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll. (Ann. v. 296 Vahl.): “L. Virginius filiam suā manu occidit,” Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 66: “ejus copias,” id. Phil. 14, 14, 36: “ipse pro castris fortissime pugnans occiditur,” Caes. B. G. 5, 36: occidione occidere, to completely cut off, destroy; v. occidio: “ad unum omnes,” to cut off all to the last man, Liv. 3, 23: “aliquem veneno,” to destroy with poison, Suet. Claud. 44; Just. 3, 2, 1: “occisus videtur non tantum qui per vim aut per caedem interfectus est, velut jugulatus ... sed et is qui veneno Necatus dicitur,” Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 2 sqq.; cf.: “et occidet eum lingua viperae,” Vulg. Job, 20, 16: “occisa sunt in terrae motu,” id. Apoc. 11, 13: “dedistine ei gladium qui se occideret?” Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 92: cum ipse se conaretur occidere, Cic. ap. Quint. 5, 10, 69; so, “se occidere,” Curt. 6, 10, 18; Quint. 7, 3, 7; Suet. Vit. 10; Eutr. 1, 8; 6, 24; Lact. 3, 18, 8; cf.: “occidit, adversariumne? immo vero aiunt se et eum, quem defendit,” Cic. de Or. 2, 74, 302.—
II. Transf.
A. To plague to death; to torture, torment, pester (cf. exanimo, II. B.; very rare; “not in Cic. or Cæs.): occidis me, cum istuc rogitas,” Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 21: “aliā occidis fabulā,” id. Men. 5, 5, 23: “occidis saepe rogando,” Hor. Epod. 14, 5: “legendo,” id. A. P. 475.—
B. To ruin, undo: “occidisti me tuis fallaciis,” Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 67.—Hence, oc-cīsus , a, um, P. a., ruined, lost, unfortunate, undone (Plautin.): “occisa est haec res, nisi, etc.,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 7.—Sup.: “occisissimus sum omnium, qui vivunt,” I am the most unfortunate, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 53.
