immemor

immĕmor ( inm- ), ŏris (ante-class. in the nom. sing. immemoris, Caecil. ap. Prisc. pp. 699 and 772 P.; Com. Fragm. v. 31 Rib.; abl. immemori, Sen. Ben. 7, 3, 2; Cat. 64, 123; 248;

al. immemore,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 3, 3 ), adj. [in-memor], unmindful, not thinking, forgetful, regardless, negligent of a thing.

I.

Lit. (freq. and class.); constr. usually with gen.; less freq. absol. or with an inf.

(α).

With gen.:

adeone immemor rerum a me gestarum esse videor?

Cic. Sull. 30, 83:

hesternorum immemores, acta pueritiae recordari,

Quint. 11, 2, 6:

beneficii,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 17:

ne me immemorem mandati tui putares,

Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1:

istius mandati tui,

id. ib. 4, 6, 3:

hujus rei,

id. Phil. 2, 22, 54:

nec erat (L. Gellius) Romanarum rerum immemor,

i. e. he was not ignorant of Roman history, id. Brut. 47, 174:

venator tenerae conjugis immemor,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 26:

immemor in testando nepotis,

Liv. 1, 34, 3:

omnium immemor difficultatum,

id. 9, 31, 14:

praedae,

Tac. A. 14, 36:

sepulcri,

Hor. C. 2, 18, 18:

herbarum (juvenca),

Verg. E. 8, 2:

graminis (cervus),

Hor. C. 1, 15, 30; cf.:

qua cibi qua quietis inmemor nox traducta est,

Liv. 9, 3, 4:

salutis immemores,

Curt. 7, 9.—

(β).

Absol.:

magna haec immemoris ingenii signa,

Cic. Brut. 60, 218:

immemori discedens pectore conjux,

unfeeling, Cat. 64, 123:

mente,

id. ib. 249:

possimne ingratus et immemor esse?

Ov. M. 14, 173; 10, 682; 15, 122; Cat. 30, 1.—

(γ).

With inf.:

nihili est, suum Qui officium facere immemor est, nisi adeo monitus,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 3; and with acc. and inf.:

immemor, Chaeream Cassium nominari,

never thinking, not considering, Suet. Calig. 57.—

II.

Transf., that causes forgetfulness, a poet. epithet of Lethe, Stat. S. 5, 2, 96; Sil. 16, 478; Sen. Herc. Oet. 936.