perimo

pĕrĭmo (orig. form pĕrĕmo, Cato ap. Fest. p. 217 Müll.), ēmi, emptum (emtum), 3, v. a. [per-emo], to take away entirely, to annihilate, extinguish, destroy; to cut off, hinder, prevent.

I.

In gen. (class.;

syn.: perdo, deleo): penitus materiem omnem,

Lucr. 1, 226:

sensu perempto,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89: luna subito perempta est, was taken away, i. e. vanished, disappeared, id. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18:

divum simulacra peremit fulminis ardor,

id. ib. 1, 12, 19:

Troja perempta,

destroyed, ruined, Verg. A. 5, 787:

corpus macie,

Liv. 2, 23; cf. id. 38, 21: ne quid consul auspici peremat, should hinder, prevent, Cato ap. Fest. p. 217 Müll.:

reditum,

Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

nisi aliqui casus consilium ejus peremisset,

id. Off. 3, 7, 33:

si causam publicam mea mors peremisset,

id. Sest. 22, 49; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 450, 5:

perimit urbem incendio,

Vulg. Jos. 11, 11.— Absol.:

sin autem (supremus ille dies) perimit ac delet omnino, quid melius, quam? etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117.—

II.

In partic., to kill, slay ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.

trucido): perempta et interempta pro interfectis poni solet a poëtis,

Fest. p. 217 Müll.; Lucr. 3, 886:

crudeli morte peremptus,

Verg. A. 6, 163:

aliquem caede,

id. ib. 9, 453:

sorte,

id. ib. 11, 110: hunc, ubi tam teneros volucres matremque peremit (trans. from Homer), Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64; Ov. M. 8, 395:

conceptum abortu,

Plin. 3, 44, 69, § 172:

caedes fratrum indigne peremptorum,

Just. 7, 6.