nex, nĕcis, f. [neco], death (syn.: mors, letum).
I Lit.
A A violent death, murder, slaughter (cf.: caedes, occisio): mater terribilem minatur vitae cruciatum et necem, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218 (Trag. v. 44 Vahl.): insidiatori et latroni, quae potest esse injusta nex, Cic. Mil. 4, 10: necem sibi consciscere, id. N. D. 2, 3, 7: vitae necisque potestatem habere in aliquem, Caes. B. G. 1, 10: necem comminari alicui, Suet. Caes. 14: neci dedere, Verg. G. 4, 90: neci demittere, id. A. 2, 85: neci mittere, id. ib. 12, 513: neci dare, id. ib. 12, 341: necem alicui parare, Ov. A. A. 1, 73: neci occumbere, id. M. 15, 499; id. H. 14, 12: eripere necem alicui, Stat. Th. 3, 69: miscere neces, to murder , Val. Fl. 3, 381: gravi nece urgere aliquem, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1833: devotus neci, doomed to death , id. Thyest. 693: vitae necisque potestas, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 4, 8, 1.—
β With gen. obj. : multorum civium neces, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 18.—
γ With gen. subj. : venatorum, Phaedr. 2, 8, 2.—
B In gen., death, a natural death (rare and post-Aug.): post necem Mithridatis, Just. 42, 1, 1: post necem consulis, Suet. Caes. 5: fata nobis sensum nostrae necis auferunt, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 21, 7.—
II Transf., the blood of the slain : (manūs) imbutae Phrygia nece, Ov. A. A. 2, 714.—
B In gen., destruction, ruin , = pernicies, exitium (jurid. Lat.): in necem alicujus, Dig. 38, 5, 1; 36, 4, 5; 15, 1, 21.