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Ăbŏrīgĭnes, um, m. [ab-origo], the primeval Romans, the Aborigines, the nation which, previous to historical record, descended from the Apennines, and, advancing from Carseoli and Reate into the plain, drove out the Siculi; the ancestors of the Romans, Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 6; Varr. L. L. 5, § 53 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 2, 3; Sall. C. 6; Liv. 1, 1.

  1. I. Used as an appellative, original inhabitants, Plin. 4, 21, 36, § 120: Indigenae sunt inde … geniti, quos vocant aborigines Latini, Graeci αὐτόχθονας, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 328.
  2. II. Hence, ăbŏrīgĭnĕus, a, um, adj., aboriginal: sacellum, Ter. Maur. p. 2425 P.

ăb-ŏrĭor, ortus, 4, v. n. dep.

  1. I. (Opp. of orior.) To set, disappear, pass away (very rare): infimus aër, ubi omnia oriuntur, ubi aboriuntur, Varr. L.L. 5, 7, § 66 Müll.
    Of the voice, to fail, stop: infringi linguam vocemque aboriri, Lucr. 3, 155.
  2. II. Of untimely birth, to miscarry (v. ab, III. 1.); Varr. ap. Non. 71, 27; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 205.

* ăb-ŏriscor, ci, dep. = aborior (after the analogy of nanciscor, proficiscor), to perish, die, Lucr. 5, 732; v. Lachm. ad h.l.