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pernicies, destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, disaster, calamity, mischief

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videbam meam perniciem cum magna calamitate rei publicae esse
I saw that my destruction was accompanied by great inury to the republic
pernĭcĭes, ēi (old form of the gen. pernicii or pernici, Sisenn. ap. Gell. 9, 14, 12, and ap. Non. 486, 30; Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131, acc. to Gell. 9, 14, 19, and acc. to Non. 486, 28. But Charis., p. 53 P., gives for the passages of Cicero above cited the form pernicies; cf., also, Diom. p. 281 P.—Dat. pernicie, Liv. 5, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.: pernicii, Nep. Thr. 2, 2; v. also, permities), f. [perneco], destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, disaster, calamity (syn.: exitium, labes).
  • I Lit.: quantā in pernicie siet, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 29 (827): de pernicie populi Romani et exitio hujus urbis, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: videbam perniciem meam cum magnā calamitate rei publicae esse conjunctam, id. ib. 1, 5, 11: perniciem rei publicae moliens, id. ib. 1, 2, 5: cum tuā peste ac pernicie cumque eorum exitio, qui, etc., id. ib. 1, 13, 33: incumbere ad perniciem alicujus, id. Mur. 28, 59: in apertam perniciem incurrere, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: ad perniciem vocari, id. de Or. 2, 9, 35: Romanos inferendae pernicii causā venisse, Sisenn. ap. Gell. and Non. 1. 1.: alicui perniciem machinari, Sall. C. 18, 7: perniciem invenire sibi et aliis, Tac. A. 1, 74: pernicies in accusatorem vertit, id. ib. 11, 37; id. H. 3, 27: in nepotum Perniciem, Hor. C. 2, 13, 4.—
  • II Transf., concr., a person or thing that is ruinous or baleful, destruction, ruin, bane, pest: egredere, erilis pernicies, ex aedibus, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 3 (3) Lorenz (Ritschl, permicies): perlecebrae, pernicies, adulescentum exitium, id. As. 1, 2, 7 (133): legirupa, pernicies adulescentum, id. Ps. 1, 3, 130 (359); cf.: leno, pernicies communis adulescentium, Ter. Ad. 188: pernicies provinciae Siciliae, i.e. Verres, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 2: illam perniciem exstinxit ac sustulit, i.e. Clodius, id. Mil. 31, 84: lymphae vini pernicies, Cat. 27, 5: eripite hanc pestem perniciemque mihi, id. 76, 20: pernicies et tempestas barathrumque macelli, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31.—Of animals, Col. 8, 14, 9.

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