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sōpio , īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a. sopor,
I.to deprive of feeling or sense; esp. by sleep, to put or lull to sleep.
I. Lit. (class.; most freq. in part. perf.; in Cic. only so; cf. sedo): impactus ita est saxo, ut sopiretur, became unconscious or senseless, was stunned, Liv. 8, 6; 1, 41; Plin. 9, 16, 25, § 58: “vino oneratos sopire,” Liv. 9, 30; 24, 46 fin.; Tib. 3, 4, 19; Ov. M. 7, 149; 7, 213.—In part. perf.: castoreo gravi mulier sopita recumbit, Lucr b, 794; so, “sopitum vulnere ac nihil sentientem,” Liv. 42, 16: “quem vigilantem sic eluseritis, sopitum oportet fallatis,” id. 7, 35, 6: “delphinus sopitus odoris novitate,” Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 26: “ut sopito corpore ipse (animus) vigilet,” Cic. Div. 1, 51, 115; 1, 29, 60: “hostes,” Liv. 8, 16; 25, 9 (opp. vigiles); 31, 23; Petr. 87, 7; Lucr. 3, 431; 3, 920; Ov. M. 9, 471; 12, 317: “sensus,” Verg. A. 10, 642; Col. 10, 367: sopitae quietis tempus, of deep or sound sleep, Liv. 9, 37.—
B. In the poets, pregn., to lay to rest, i. e. to kill: “aliquem fundā,” Sil. 10, 153.—Pass., to be laid to rest, to die: “(Homerus) sceptra potitus, eādem aliis sopitu' quiete est,” Lucr. 3, 1038; cf. id. ib. 3, 904.—
II. Transf., of things concr. and abstr., to lull to sleep, set, or lay at rest; to calm, settle, still, quiet: “venti sopiuntur,” Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 129: “sopito mari,” id. 2, 79, 81, § 192: “sopitos suscitat ignes,” Verg. A. 5, 743; 8, 410; cf.: “aras excitat,” id. ib. 8, 542: draconis saevi sopivi impetum, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 252 P. (Trag. v. 314 Vahl.): haec omnia veteris imperatoris maturitas brevi sopiit ac sustulit, Vell. 2, 125, 3.—Part. perf.: “quibus (blandimentis) sopita virtus coniveret,” lulled to sleep, Cic. Cael. 17, 41: “munera militiaï,” Lucr. 1, 29: “furor armorum ubique,” Vell. 2, 89, 3: “ingenium pecudis,” Col. 6, 37, 2: “gloria vitiis,” Val. Max. 9, 1, ext. 1: “artes,” Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 264.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 17.41
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 37
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.471
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.743
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.642
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.149
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.1038
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.920
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.29
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.26
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.58
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 30
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 46
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 35
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 16
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 6
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 42, 16
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 41
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.51
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.37.2
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 9.1
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