occubo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈok.ku.boː/, [ˈɔkːʊboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈok.ku.bo/, [ˈɔkːubo]
Verb
occubō (present infinitive occubāre, perfect active occubuī, supine occubitum); first conjugation
- to lie or fall in, on, or down, especially in the grave; rest, repose
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.363–364:
- ‘vīdimus ōrnātōs aerāta per ātria picta
veste triumphālēs occubuisse senēs’- “We have seen [them], adorned in their embroidered [robes], fallen dead throughout the bronze-covered halls: [those] oft-honored old veterans.”
(The poetic voice of Mars is addressing Jupiter. The Gauls, having invaded Rome, have attacked elderly veterans who had had military triumphs, “senēs triumphālēs”; these vets were dressed in their symbolic garments, “ōrnātōs picta”; and it happened throughout the halls of state, “per ātria aerāta”. In other words, such enemy brutality is an affront to human dignity and Roman honor.)
- “We have seen [them], adorned in their embroidered [robes], fallen dead throughout the bronze-covered halls: [those] oft-honored old veterans.”
- ‘vīdimus ōrnātōs aerāta per ātria picta
Conjugation
References
- “occubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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