pass away

PASS AWAY

or OFF praeterire (general term; ☞ praeterlabi in this sense is not Latin): exire (to come to an end; of time; e.g. eorum nullus sine ebrietate exit dies): effluere (of time to flow away without being usefully employed): extrahi (to be let slip without being well employed; of points of time): to pass away imperceptibly labi: to pass away quickly avolare fugere aufugere (all of time): to suffer time to pass away tempus extrahere aliqua re (e.g. triduum disputationibus excusationibusque extrahitur): not to let a day pass away without etc. nullum pati esse diem quin etc.: to let one day pass away after another diem ex die ducere; diem de die differre.

pass away:

I. Of time; to take its departure:

1 ăbeo, 4, irr.: that year p.'d away, abiit ille annus, Cic. Sext. 33, 71: Ter.: Hor. (Not praetereo in exactly this sense: v. TO PASS BY.)

2. cēdo, ssi, ssum, 3: hours and days and months and years p. away, horae c., et dies, et menses, et anni, Cic. Sen. 19, 69. So comp., prōcedo, 3 (esp. when a part of a given time is spoken of as gone): when a good part of the night had p.'d away, ubi plerumque noctis processerat, Sall. Jug. 21.

3. transeo, 4, irr. (rare in exactly this sense): life will p. away, transiet aetas, Tib. 1, 4, 27: v. TO PASS (B, II.).

4. lābor, psus, 3 (to glide away imperceptibly: poet.): Hor. Od. 2, 14, 2 (fugaces l. anni) Ov.

5. pass. of consūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3 (to take up time): v. TO CONSUME (II.), SPEND. Phr.: to let one day after another p. away, diem ex die ducere, Caes. B. G. 1, 16.

II To come to an end:

1. transeo, 4: an empire soon to p. away, imperium brevi transiturum, Tac. H. 1, 52, fin.

2. intĕreo, pĕreo, occīdo: v. TO PERISH.