amitto

ā-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3, v. a. (amīsti, sync., = amisisti, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10; id. Hec. 2, 2, 9:

amīssis, sync., = amiseris,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 70 ).

I.

1. A.. In gen., to send away from one's self, to dismiss (thus, anteclass., freq. in Plaut. and Ter.): quod nos dicimus dimittere, antiqui etiam dicebant amittere, Don. ad Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 71; Att. ap. Non. 75, 32:

stulte feci, qui hunc (servum) amisi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 66; id. ib. 4, 5, 25; so id. ib. 4, 5, 28:

quo pacto hic servos suum erum hinc amittat domum,

id. Capt. prol. 36:

et te et hunc amittam hinc,

id. ib. 2, 2, 82; so id. Most. 2, 2, 2; id. Men. 5, 8, 6 al.:

ut neque mi jus sit amittendi nec retinendi copia,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 24; 5, 8, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 8, 17 al.:

testis mecum est anulus, quem amiserat,

which he had sent away, id. Ad. 3, 2, 49; Varr. ap. Non. 83, 12.—

B.

Spec., to let go, let slip:

praedā de manibus amissā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20.—With simple abl.:

praedam ex oculis manibusque amittere,

Liv. 30, 24; 29, 32 et saep.:

Sceledre, manibus amisisti praedam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 47 Ritschl.—

2.

Trop.

A.

In gen.:

istam rem certum est non amittere,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 217:

tibi hanc amittam noxiam unam,

to remit, to pardon, id. Poen. 1, 2, 191:

occasionem amittere,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58; so Cic. Caecin. 5, 15; id. Att. 15, 11; Caes. B. G. 3, 18 al. (opp. occasionem raptare, Cic.:

arripere, Liv.: complecti, Plin. Min.: intellegere, Tac.): servire tempori et non amittere tempus cum sit datum,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 6:

fidem amittere,

to break their word given on oath, Nep. Eun. 10, 2 Dähn.; Ov. M. 15, 556 al.—

B.

Of trees, to let go, let fall, to drop, lose:

punica florem amittit,

Plin. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

pyrus et amygdala amittunt florem et primos fructus,

id. ib.:

ocissime salix amittit semen,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 110.—

II.

Esp., to lose (commonly without criminality, by mistake, accident, etc.; while perdere usually designates a losing through one's own fault; and omittere, to allow a thing to pass by or over, which one might have obtained): Decius amisit vitam; at non perdidit: dedit vitam, accepit patriam: amisit animam, potitus est gloriā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 44, 57: Multa amittuntur tarditie et socordiā, Att. ap. Non. 181, 21 (Trag. Rel. p. 73 Rib.):

Simul consilium cum re amisti?

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10:

amittit vitam sensumque priorem,

Lucr. 3, 769 et saep.:

imperii jus amittere,

Cic. Phil. 10, 5 fin.:

ut totam litem aut obtineamus aut amittamus,

id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10:

classes optimae amissae et perditae,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 13:

filium amisit (sc. per mortem),

id. Fam. 4, 6; so Tac. Agr. 6; Suet. Vesp. 3; id. Calig. 12:

oppidum Capsam et magnam pecuniam amiserat,

Sall. J. 97, 1:

patrimoniis amissis,

id. C. 37, 5:

amittere optimates, i. e. favorem, animum eorum,

Nep. Dion, 7, 2 Dähn.:

patriam,

Liv. 5, 53:

exercitum,

id. 8, 33:

opera amissa (sc. incendio) restituit,

id. 5, 7; so Suet. Claud. 6:

si reperire vocas amittere certius,

i. e. to know more certainly that she is lost, Ov. M. 5, 519:

colores,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 27; so id. S. 1, 1, 60; 2, 5, 2 (not elsewh. in Hor.).