demergo

dē-mergo, si, sum, 3, 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.