intĕr-ĕo, ĭi, ĭtum (perf. -īvi, Ap. Met. 7, 7, 18; sync. -issent, Cic. Div. 2, 8, 20 al.), 4, v. n.—Prop., to go among several things, so as no longer to be perceived (class.).
I Lit.: ut interit magnitudine maris stilla muriae, becomes lost in it , Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 45: saxa venis, become lost among them , mingle with them , Sever. Aetn. 450. —
II Trop., to perish , to go to ruin or decay , to die : non intellego, quomodo, calore exstincto, corpora intereant, Cic. N. D. 3, 14: omnia fato Interitura gravi, Ov. M. 2, 305: segetes, Verg. G. 1, 152: salus urbis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 55: litterae, id. Att. 1, 13: pecunia, Nep. Them. 2: interit ira morā, ceases , Ov. A. A. 1, 374: possessio, Dig. 41, 2, 44.—
B To be ruined , mostly in first pers. perf. : interii, I am ruined , undone : hei mihi disperii! ... interii, perii, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 36: omnibus exitiis interii, id. Bacch. 5, 17: interii! cur mihi id non dixti? Ter. Hec. 322: qui per virtutem peritat, non interit, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 32.— Hence, intĕrĭtus , a, um, Part., perished , destroyed (ante- and post-class.): multis utrinque interitis, Claud. Quadrig. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.; Sid. Ep. 2, 10.