The corpus record — Latin

emorior

to die off

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Where it lives

Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 2 · 4.65/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Medicina 19 · 1.85/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-mŏrĭor — Lewis & Short

ē-mŏrĭor, mortuus, 3 (old form of the

I inf. emoriri, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 42; but Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 124, moriri, Ritschl), v. dep. n., to die off, to die, depart, decease, v. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 183 sq. (freq. and class.).

I Lit.: emori me malim, Plaut. Asin. 4, 2, 1; so id. Aul. 4, 5, 1; Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 63; Cic. Pis. 7, 15; id. Off. 3, 32, 114; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96; id. Par. 3, 2, 24; Sall. C. 20, 9; id. J. 14 fin.; Ov. M. 3, 391; Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 26 sq.; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 49; Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 243; id. de Sen. 19, 74; 22, 80; Cat. 52, 1, 4.—Prov.: verba facit emortuo, he talks to the dead, i. e. in vain, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 18.—

B Transf., of things, to become dead, to die: membrum, Cels. 5, 26, 34 fin.: arbor, Vitr. 2, 9; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 221: carbo, i. e. to go out, id. 16, 6, 8, § 23: sterilis et emoriens terra, desert, Curt. 4, 7, 10; cf. vulva, Vulg. Rom. 4, 19.—

II Trop., to perish, pass away, cease: quorum laus emori non potest, Cic. Par. 2, 18: vis, Cels. 2, 10: dicta (with evanescere), Quint. 12, 10, 75: spes (opp. elucere), id. 1, 1, 2: amor, Ov. R. Am. 654: auxilium, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 14.

In the wild

emoriatur Ovid, Remedia Amoris 654
emoritur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.8.7
emori Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.13
emori Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.2.4
emortuo Celsus, De Medicina 7.29
emoritur Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.2.13

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