fatalis

fātālis, e, adj. [fatum], of or belonging to fate, ordained by fate or destiny, decreed, destined, fated, fatal (class.).

I.

In gen.: illa fatalis necessitas, quam heimarmenên dicitis, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 55: fatalis et immutabilis continuatio ordinis sempiterni, id. Ac. 1, 7, 29:

summam fatalem conficere,

id. Rep. 6, 12:

divina aique fatalia,

id. Part. 21, 73:

casus,

id. Phil. 6, 7, 19:

consulatus ad salutem rei publicae prope fatalis,

id. Cat. 4, 1, 2; cf.:

hic annus fatalis ad interitum hujus urbis,

id. ib. 3, 4, 9:

anni,

Tib. 1, 3, 53; Inscr. Orell. 4851:

stamina,

Tib. 1, 7, 1; Ov. M. 8, 452; cf.

deae,

i. e. the Fates, id. P. 1, 8, 64:

libri,

i. e. the Sibylline, Liv. 5, 14, 4; 5, 5, 11; Suet. Caes. 79 al.:

verba,

Ov. F. 4, 257:

lex, i. e. fatum,

id. M. 3, 316; 10, 203:

labor,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 11:

ora fluminis,

destined, Ov. M. 15, 54: mala. Suet. Ner. 40:

mors,

a natural death, Vell. 2, 4, 6; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 1; cf.:

mors fato propera,

Tac. A. 1, 3.—In neutr. fatale est, with a subject-clause:

tam fatale est, medicum adhibere, quam convalescere,

Cic. Fat. 13, 30:

quasi fatale esset, non posse Gallias debellari nisi a se consule,

Suet. Ner. 43. —

II.

In partic., in a bad sense, dangerous, destructive, deadly (perh. only poet., and in post-Aug. prose):

vincla,

Lucr. 5, 876:

telum,

Verg. A. 12, 919:

manus (Etruscorum),

id. ib. 12, 232:

jaculum,

Ov. M. 5, 182:

hasta,

Sil. 2, 400:

lignum,

Ov. M. 8, 479:

crinis,

id. ib. 8, 85:

aurum,

id. ib. 9, 411:

signum,

id. ib. 13, 381:

monstrum,

Hor. C. 1, 37, 21:

judex,

id. ib. 3, 3, 19:

hora,

Suet. Ner. 49:

DIES,

dying-day, Inscr. Orell. 3023; 4758; cf.:

si quid mihi fatale contigerit,

Spart. Hadr. 4.—Hence, fātālĭter, adv., according to fate, fatally: omnia, quae fiunt quaeque futura sunt, ex omni aeternitate definita dicis esse fataliter, * Cic. Div. 2, 7, 19; Suet. Caes. 59; Tac. H. 1, 71; Ov. M. 12, 67:

mori,

to die a natural death, Eutr. 1, 11.