dē-mergo — Lewis & Short
dē-mergo, si, sum, 3,
I v. a., to sink, submerge, to plunge into, to dip (class.).
I Lit.:
candens ferrum in gelidum imbrem,Lucr. 6, 149:
pars remorum demersa liquore,id. 4, 441; cf.: cornix demersit caput, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 8 fin.;
and demersis aequora rostris Ima petunt,Verg. A. 9, 119:
Marium senile corpus paludibus occultasse demersum,Cic. Sest. 22, 50; cf. id. Div. 2, 68; id. Fin. 2, 32, 105:
navem,Plin. 32, 2, 6, § 15: triremem hostium perforare et demergere, Auct. B. Alex. 25, 5; 31 fin.:
pullos mari,Suet. Tib 2; and in pass. of a person:
vehementi circio bis paene demersus est,id. Claud. 17:
plebem in fossas cloacasque exhauriendas,i. e. to busy, employ, Liv. 1, 59; cf.:
vultum in undas,Prop. 3, 18, 9 (4, 17, 9 M.):
metalla,Plin. H. N. 33 prooem.: stirpem, to sink or set in, to plant (with deponere), Col. 3, 18, 2 sq.; cf.
surculos,Pall. Febr. 17, 3:
dapes in alvum,Ov. M. 15, 105; cf. id. ib. 6, 664: si quando nos demersimus, ut qui urinantur, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 474, 27.—Poet.:
colla demersere humeris (i. e. absconderunt),Stat. Th. 6, 850.—
B Esp. of the sun-god, etc., to sink in the sea, cause to set (poet.):
sex ubi sustulerit totidem demerserit orbes purpureum rapido qui vehit axe diem,Ov. F. 3, 517 sq.:
Titan igniferi tantum demerserat orbis, quantum, etc.,Luc. 3, 41 sq.—
C Intrans., to set (late Lat.):
demergit sol et nascitur,Min. Fel. 34, 11.—
II Trop., to sink, depress, overwhelm:
animus depressus et quasi demersus in terram,Cic. de Sen. 21:
demersae leges alicujus opibus, emergunt aliquando,id. Off. 2, 7, 24:
patriam demersam extuli,id. Sull. 31, 87; cf. Nep. Dion, 6;
and concidit domus, ob lucrum demersa exitio,Hor. Od. 3, 16, 13:
plebs aere alieno demersa,Liv. 2, 29, 8; cf. id. 6, 27, 6:
Rheam in perpetuam virginitatem demersit,Just. 43, 2.—P. a., dēmersus, a, um, depressed. —Comp.:
pulsus, Coel. Am. Acut. 2, 32, 165: qui demersiora scrutantur,Rufin. Origen in Cant. 3, p. 10.