_praesenti animo uti_ (_vid._ sect. VI. 8, note _uti..._)—to possess
presence of mind.
_aequo (aequissimo) animo ferre aliquid_—to endure a thing with (the
greatest) sang-froid.
_humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid_—to
bear a thing with resignation, composure.
_(animo) paratum esse ad aliquid_—to be resigned to a thing.
_omnia perpeti paratum esse_—to be ready to endure anything.
_ad omnes casus se comparare_—to prepare oneself for all contingencies.
_animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere_ (more strongly
_depellere, deturbare_)—to disconcert a person.
_de statu suo_ or _mentis deici_ (Att. 16. 15)—to lose one's
composure; to be disconcerted.
_de gradu deici, ut dicitur_[1]—to lose one's composure; to be
disconcerted.
_perturbari (animo)_—to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted.
_sui (mentis) compotem non esse_—to lose one's head, be beside oneself.
_non esse apud se_[2] (Plaut. Mil. 4. 8. 26)—to lose one's head, be
beside oneself.
_mente vix constare_ (Tusc. 4. 17. 39)—to compose oneself with
difficulty.
_animo adesse_ (Sull. 11. 33)—to be quite unconcerned.
_ad se redire_—to regain one's self-possession.
_constantiam servare_—to be calm, self-possessed.
_mente consistere_—to be calm, self-possessed.
_desperare_[3] _suis rebus_—to despair of one's position.
_ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci_ (B. C. 2. 42)—to be
plunged into the depths of despair.
_desperatio rerum (omnium)_ (Catil. 2. 11. 25)—absolute despair; a
hopeless situation.
_quid (de) me fiet?_ (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)—what will become of me?
_actum est de me_—it's all over with me; I'm a lost man.
[1] These expressions are metaphors from the fencing-school. _gradus_
is the position taken up by a combatant, so _gradu depelli, deici_ =
to be driven out of one's ground.
[2] Used especially in the comic poets.
[3] _desperare_ is used, generally with _de_, more rarely with the
accusative, in the meaning "to no longer count upon a thing," e.g.
_reditum, pacem_; or with the dative, especially with _sibi, suis
rebus, saluti, fortunae suae_. Note the use of _desperatus_,
"abandoned," "given up," "despaired of," e.g. _desperati morbi_
(Cic.), _aegrota ac paene desperata res publica_ (Cic.)