cessi+n+n

prae-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. a. and n., to go before, precede (seems not to occur in Cic., Nep., Tac., or Sall.; once in Cæs.; syn.: antecedo, anteverto).

Act., to go before, precede a person or thing.

Lit. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

aliquem,

Suet. Dom. 14:

custodes,

Just. 14, 4:

agmen,

Verg. A. 9, 47:

is praecedens agmen militum ad tribunal pergit,

Liv. 7, 13, 2:

praetoriā nave praecedente classem,

id. 35, 26, 7; 38, 41, 12:

taurus armenta praecedit,

Sen. Ep. 90, 4; id. Contr. 3, 16, 8:

exsequias fax cereusque praecessit,

id. Tranq. 11, 7:

gradum nostrum aut praecedentes aut sequentes,

Vell. 2, 114, 1.—Of inanimate subjects:

at quae venturas praecedet sexta Calendas,

Ov. F. 1, 705; Vell. 2, 129, 3.—

Trop., to surpass, outstrip, outdo, excel, be superior to (rare but class.):

Helvetii reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt,

excel in bravery, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 4:

ego vestros honores rebis gerendis praecessi,

Liv. 38, 51, 11:

ceteras omnis sapore praecedere,

Col. 3, 2, 7:

omnes,

Val. Max. 1, 1, 14:

Baetica cunctas provinciarum divite cultu praecedit,

Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 7:

in quo praecessit omnes D. Silanus,

id. 18, 3, 5, § 23:

omnes sapientiā,

Vulg. Eccl. 1, 16.—

Neutr., to go before, precede, lead the way (class.).

Lit.:

opus esse et ipsos praecedere ad confirmandam civitatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 54:

cum equite, ut prius venisse quam venturum sciant, praecedam,

Liv. 22, 51, 2:

praecedebat ipse vinctus, sequebatur grex, etc.,

id. 30, 13, 2; 39, 39, 8; 42, 59, 1:

equitem ex Paeoniā praecedere jubet,

Curt. 4, 12, 22; 3, 4, 13; 5, 8, 5; Suet. Galb. 12; id. Calig. 32:

cervi maria tranant capita imponentes praecedentium clunibus,

Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 114.—

Of inanim. subjects:

fama loquax praecessit ad aures, Deïanira, tuas,

Ov. M. 9, 137:

umbra,

id. ib. 5, 614;

Plin 31, 6, 33, § 64: nullā praecedente injuriā,

without previous injury, id. 11, 37, 55, § 149.—

Transf., to be older:

decem et octo annis,

Just. Inst. 1, 11, 4.—

Trop., to surpass, excel; with the dat. (ante-class.):

ut vostrae fortunae meis praecedunt longe,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 39.

prō-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go forth or before, to go forwards, advance, proceed (class.; cf.: progredior, prodeo).

Lit.

In gen.:

procedere ad forum,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 2:

illuc procede,

id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

a portu,

Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 1: ante agmen, Hirt. B. G. 8, 27, 4:

nil cum procede re lintrem Sentimus,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 20:

pedibus aequis,

Ov. P. 4, 5, 3:

passu tacito,

Val. Fl. 5, 351.—

In partic.

In milit. lang., to go or march forwards, to advance, Caes. B. C. 3, 34:

lente atque paulatim proceditur,

id. ib. 1, 80; id. B. G. 6, 25:

agmen procedit,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37; Curt. 7, 3, 19:

processum in aciem est,

Liv. 25, 21:

ipsi jam pridem avidi certaminis procedunt,

id. 3, 62, 6.—Cf. of ships, Caes. B. G. 7, 61; Verg. A. 4, 587.—

Of processions, to go on, set forward, move on, advance, etc.:

funus interim Procedit: sequimur,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 101; Hor. C. 4, 2, 49:

tacito procedens agmine,

Sil. 7, 91:

vidisti Latios consul procedere fasces,

id. 6, 443.—

Transf.

To go or come forth or out, to advance, issue:

foribus foras procedere,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 12:

castris,

Verg. A. 12, 169:

extra munitiones,

Caes. B. G 5, 43:

in medium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 36, § 94:

e tabernaculo in solem,

id. Brut. 9, 37:

in pedes procedere nascentem, contra naturam est,

to be born feet first, Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

mediā procedit ab aulā,

Ov. M. 14, 46.—

In gen., to show one's self, to appear:

cum veste purpureā procedere,

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

obviam alicui procedere,

to go towards, go to meet, id. Sest. 13, 68; cf.:

Jugurthae obvius procedit,

Sall. J. 21, 1:

obviam,

id. ib. 53, 5:

procedat vel Numa,

Juv. 3, 138.—

In partic., to issue from the mouth, to be uttered:

sed interdum voces procedebant contumaces et inconsultae,

Tac. A. 4, 60 init.; Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 36.—

Of stars, etc., to rise, come into view:

Ecce Dionaei processit Caesaris astrum,

Verg. E. 9, 47:

vesper,

id. ib. 6, 86.—

Of the moon, to wax, increase, Pall. 7, 3.—

Of plants, to put forth, spring forth, grow (ante-class. and in post-Aug. prose):

antequam radices longius procedere possint,

Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 5:

plerumque germen de cicatrice procedit,

Col. 4, 22, 4:

gemma sine dubio processura,

Pall. 7, 5, 3; 8, 3, 1 et saep.—

Of place, to project, extend:

ita ut in pedes binos fossa procedat,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159:

Lydia super Ioniam procedit,

id. 5, 29, 30, § 110:

promuntorium, quod contra Peloponnesum procedit,

id. 4, 2, 3, § 6; Cels. 8, 1.—

Trop.

Of time, to advance, pass, elapse (class.):

ubi plerumque noctis processit,

Sall. J. 21, 2; Nep. Pel. 3, 3:

jamque dies alterque dies processit,

Verg. A. 3, 356:

dies procedens,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 22, 53:

procedente tempore,

in process of time, Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 17:

si aetate processerit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 50:

tempus processit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 25:

procedente die,

Liv. 28, 15; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 8:

procedunt tempora tarde,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 5:

incipient magni procedere menses,

Verg. E. 4, 12:

pars major anni jam processerat,

Liv. 3, 37.—

To come or go forth, to appear, to present or show one's self ( poet. and post-Aug.):

nunc volo subducto gravior procedere voltu,

i. e. to conduct myself more gravely, to undertake more serious matters, Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 9:

quis postea ad summam Thucydidis, quis Hyperidis ad famam processit?

Petr. 2.—

In partic., to go or get on, to advance, make progress (class.; cf.

proficio): dicendi laude multum,

Cic. Brut. 36, 137:

in philosophiā,

id. Fin. 3, 2, 6:

honoribus longius,

id. Brut. 48, 180; cf. id. Har. Resp. 23, 48:

ad virtutis aditum,

id. Fin. 3, 14, 48:

ambitio et procedendi libido,

a passion for getting on, for rising in the world, Plin. Ep 8, 6, 3:

longius iras,

Verg. A. 5, 461:

perspicuum est, quo compositiones unguentorum processerint,

to what extent, how far, Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

ut ratione et viā procedat oratio,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 29:

eo vecordiae processit, ut,

went so far in folly, Sall. J. 5, 2:

Adherbal, ubi intellegit eo processum,

id. ib. 21, 1; so,

processit in id furoris,

Vell. 2, 80, 2:

eoque ira processit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 9, 26, 2:

ex infimā fortunā in ordinem senatorium, et ad summos honores,

Suet. Rhet. 1, 10.—

To run on, continue, remain:

et cum stationes procederent, prope obruentibus infirmum corpus armis,

i. e. guard duty returned so frequently as to seem continuous, Liv. 5, 48, 7:

ut iis stipendia procederent,

id. 25, 5, 8; 27, 11, 14; cf.

aera,

id. 5, 7, 12.—

To go on, continue, follow; esp. of speech, etc.:

ad dissuadendum,

Liv. 30, 35; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 117: non imitor lakônismon tuum:

altera jam pagella procedit,

Cic. Fam. 11, 25, 2.—

To [p. 1451] turn out, result, succeed, prosper (class.):

parum procedere,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 48; Liv. 1, 57; 38, 7:

nonnumquam summis oratoribus non satis ex sententiā eventum dicendi procedere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 123:

alicui pulcherrime,

id. Phil. 13, 19, 40:

alicui bene,

id. Rab. Post. 1, 1:

omnia prospere procedent,

Cic. Fam. 12, 9, 2.— Impers. (cf. succedo): quibus cum parum procederet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; cf.:

velut processisset Spurio Licinio,

Liv. 2, 44, 1.— Absol., to turn out or succeed well:

mane quod tu occoeperis negotium agere, id totum procedit diem,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 34:

ferme ut quisque quidque occoeperit, sic ei procedunt post principia,

id. ib. 4, 1, 4:

Syre, processisti hodie pulcre,

have succeeded finely, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 22:

si processit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

quod si consilia Andranodoro processissent,

Liv. 24, 26, 5.—

To turn out favorably for, to result in favor of, to benefit, be of use to one:

totidem dies emptori procedent,

Cato, R. R. 148:

benefacta mea reipublicae procedunt,

Sall. J. 85, 5; Ov. H. 9, 109.—

To be effectual:

venenum non processerat,

Tac. A. 15, 60:

medicina processit,

Col. 6, 6, 4.—

To go or pass for, to be counted or reckoned as any thing (anteand post-class.):

ut binae (oves) pro singulis procedant,

shall be reckoned as one, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 5; Dig. 5, 3, 32:

quod ita procedit, si ea, cui donabatur, eum interposuit,

ib. 24, 1, 11.—

To happen, take place, occur (ante-class.):

numquid processit ad forum hodie novi?

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 7.—

To come or proceed from, to be derived from (post-class.):

res, quae a sacratissimis imperatoribus procedunt,

Cod. Just. 7, 37, 3.— In part. pass.:

in processā aetate,

advanced, Scrib. Comp. 100.

rĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede.

Lit. (class.; cf.:

decedo, abscedo): pone nos recede,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34:

ego abs te procul recedam,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 4:

hinc,

id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7:

illuc,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 7:

recedere loco,

id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.:

centuriones ex eo quo stabant loco recesserunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

non modo illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā quidem recessisse,

Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21:

procul a telo veniente,

Ov. M. 12, 359:

de medio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

ab hoste,

Ov. P. 3, 1, 151:

longius,

Verg. G. 4, 191:

tristis recedo,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31:

ab Illiturgi,

Liv. 24, 41:

in castra Corneliana,

Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —

In partic., to retire to one's bedchamber, go to rest, Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—

Transf.

Of inanimate and abstract things:

ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant,

Cic. Planc. 6, 15:

verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant,

yield, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113:

multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimunt,

the departing years, id. A. P. 176:

abeant ac recedant voces illae,

Plin. Pan. 2, 2.—

Of places, things, etc., to stand back, recede (i. e. to be distant or retired;

freq., esp. after the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae domus arboribusque obtecta recessit,

Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and:

etsi lata recessit Urbe domus,

Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21:

Palaestina vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas... et quā recedit intus, Damascena,

Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66:

Magna Graecia in tres sinus recedens Ausonii maris,

id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations:

gens Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens,

Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a painting, etc.:

pictor vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus,

Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.:

venter recessit,

Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.— Poet., of places, which appear to recede by our departure from them:

provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt,

Verg. A. 3, 72:

mea terra recedit,

Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—

In gen., to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place, to abandon a thing, = discedere.

Lit. (in good prose very rare), = discedere, haec effatu' pater, germana, repente recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.):

nec vero a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes),

Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—

Transf., of things, to separate from any thing (with which it was previously connected):

in aliis ossibus ex toto saepe fragmentum a fragmento recedit,

Cels. 8, 7, 1:

carnes ab ossibus,

Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67:

caput e cervice,

Ov. P. 2, 8, 65;

for which also: caput cervice,

id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —

Trop., to withdraw, depart, desist (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si quid vos per laborem recte feceritis, labor ille a vobis cito recedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4:

avius a verā longe ratione recedit,

Lucr. 2, 229:

senes, ut in otia tuta recedant, aiunt, etc.,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 31:

ab officio recedere,

Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58:

ab armis,

i. e. to lay them down, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:

penitus a naturā,

id. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

ab eodem exemplo,

Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21:

a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque,

Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to kill one ' s self, id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 (but Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to die, in gen., a doubtful conjecture; Jahn, procedente [p. 1530] vitā):

a veritatis viā longe,

Lact. 2, 8, 1:

ab oppugnatione,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of inanimate and abstract subjects:

postquam recessit vita patrio corpore,

Plaut. Merc. prol. 73:

(nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit et proprie in eo, qui arma contra ferret, remansit,

has lost the signification of foreigner, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so,

res a consuetudine,

id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11:

figurae sententiarum ab illo simplici modo indicandi recedunt,

id. 9, 2, 1:

ab usu cotidiano,

id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.— Poet., with simple abl.:

sic nunquam corde recedit Nata tuo,

departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.— Absol., to vanish, pass away, disappear:

et pariter Phoebes, pariter maris ira recessit,

Ov. M. 12, 36:

spes,

Luc. 7, 688:

quonam nostri tibi cura recessit?

Verg. A. 2, 595:

fortuna recessit,

id. ib. 3, 53.— With in:

in ventos vita recessit,

passed away into the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), drawn back, receding:

scaena recessior,

standing farther back, Vitr. 5, 8.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

sē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go apart, go away, separate, withdraw (class.; not in Cæs.; but cf. secessio).

Lit.

In gen., absol.:

secedant improbi, secernant se a bonis,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; Ov. M. 6, 490:

prosecutus eram viatico secedentem,

Plin. Ep. 3, 21, 2:

abite et de viā secedite,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 2:

de coetu,

Ov. M. 2, 465:

a vestro potui secedere lusu,

Prop. 1, 10, 9:

utinam nostro secedere corpore possem!

Ov. M. 3, 467.—

Poet., of inanim. subjects, to remove, withdraw; and in the perf., to be distant:

(luna) quantum solis secedit ab orbe,

Lucr. 5, 705:

ab imis terra,

Ov. F 6, 279:

(villa) decem et septem milibus passuum ab urbe secessit,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2; Claud. Epith. Pall. et Cell. 63.—

In partic.

To go aside, withdraw, [p. 1652] retire:

secede huc nunc jam procul,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 23; so,

huc,

id. Am. 2, 2, 139; id. As. 3, 3, 49; id. Capt. 2, 2, 13:

in abditam partem aedium,

Sall. C. 20, 1:

in utraque latera (cohortes),

Front. Strat. 6, 6, 3:

ad deliberandum,

Liv. 45, 36:

ad consultandum,

Suet. Ner. 15:

lex Spartana vetat secedere amantes,

Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 21:

secedit humumque Effodit,

Ov. M. 11, 185. —

In post-Aug. authors (esp. in Suet.), to retire from public into private life; absol.:

integrā aetate ac valetudine statuit repente secedere seque e medio quam longissime amovere,

Suet. Tib. 10:

illuc e comitatu suo,

id. Aug. 98; so Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3:

ab Urbe,

Suet. Gram. 3:

in insulam, etc.,

Quint. 3, 1, 17; Suet. Vesp. 4; id. Gram. 5; cf.

Rhodum,

id. Caes. 4.—

To seek the exclusive society of any one, to retire from the world:

ad optimos viros,

Sen. Ot. Sap. 1, 1. —

Polit., to separate one's self by rebellion, to revolt, secede (syn.:

deficio, descisco): ut anno XVI. post reges exactos propter nimiam dominationem potentium secederent,

Cic. Corn. 1, p. 450 Orell.:

saepe ipsa plebes armata a patribus secessit,

Sall. C. 33, 3; Suet. Tib. 2:

injussu consulum in Sacrum Montem secessisse,

to have marched out in rebellion, Liv. 2, 32; so,

in Sacrum Montem,

id. 7, 40; Flor. 1, 23:

in Janiculum (plebs),

Plin. 16, 10, 15, § 37.—

Trop. (very rare; perh. only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

antequam ego incipio secedere et aliā parte considere,

to dissent from the opinion, Sen. Ep. 117, 4:

a fesso corpore sensus,

Cat. 64, 189:

qui solitarius separatusque a communi malo civitatis secesserit,

has withdrawn himself, Gell. 2, 12, 1:

cum ad stilum secedet,

shall give himself up to writing, Quint. 1, 12, 12:

in te ipse secede,

retire within yourself, Sen. Ep. 25, 7.

suc-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n. and a. ⊂.

To go below or under (so mostly poet.; syn. subeo).

Lit.

In gen., to enter, go under, come under:

simul ac primum nubes succedere soli Coepere,

to go under the sun, Lucr. 5, 286; cf. id. 6, 402:

tectum, cui imbris vitandi causā succederet,

Cic. Dom. 44, 116:

maestae Succedunt ramis volucres,

Val. Fl. 6, 505:

succedere tectis,

Ov. M. 2, 766; so,

tectis,

id. ib. 8, 549; Verg. A. 1, 627:

rex jussae succedit aquae,

Ov. M. 11, 142:

tecto et umbrae,

Verg. G. 3, 418:

antro,

id. E. 5, 6 and 19:

tumulo sineret succedere terrae,

i. e. to be buried, id. A. 11, 103; cf.:

serpens imo Successit tumulo,

id. ib. 5, 93.—

In partic., to go from under; to go up, mount, ascend:

alto caelo,

to mount, ascend, Verg. G. 4, 227:

in arduum,

Liv. 5, 43; cf.:

hoc itinere est fons, quo mare succedit longius,

Caes. B. C. 2, 24:

muros,

Liv. 27, 18, 13; 31, 45, 5; Tac. A. 2, 20; Sil. 10, 597:

tumulum,

Liv. 22, 28 et saep. — Absol.:

erigi scalas jussit ac promptissimum quemque succedere,

Tac. A. 2, 81.— Poet.:

in montem succedere silvas Cogebant,

to retreat to the mountains, Lucr. 5, 1370.—

Trop.

To come under, submit to any thing:

omnes sententiae verbaque omnia... sub acumen stili subeant et succedant necesse est,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 151:

externae dominationi, quam in suis timuerunt, sponte succedunt,

Just. 8, 2, 2:

succedoque oneri,

take up, Verg. A. 2, 723:

nec qui succederet operi inventus est,

undertake, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 92.—

To go up, mount, ascend:

a pedibusque minutatim succedere frigus Non dubitabat,

Lucr. 6, 1191:

ad summum honorem,

id. 5, 1122:

ille ad superos Succedet famā,

Verg. A. 12, 235:

aurum in summum successit honorem,

Lucr. 5, 1275.—

To approach, draw near (class. and freq.).

Milit. t. t., to march on, advance, march up to, approach (class. and freq.; cf.: invado, progredior): [p. 1787] sub primam nostram aciem successerunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 24:

sub montem,

id. B. C. 1, 45: supra hostium munitionem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 91, 23:

ad castra hostium infestis signis,

Liv. 7, 37:

ad stationes hostium,

id. 30, 8:

ad hostium latebras,

id. 10, 14:

ad urbem,

id. 26, 44:

ad moenia,

id. 44, 31:

sub ipsum vallum,

id. 31, 36, 5:

ad portūs claustra,

Curt. 4, 5, 19:

celeriter ad molem,

id. 4, 3, 2:

moenibus,

Liv. 10, 34; 24, 19:

munimentis,

id. 9, 14:

munitionibus, Auct. B. Alex. 30, 4: portas succedunt,

Caes. B. G. 2, 6:

murum,

Liv. 38, 9.— Absol.:

classis paulatim successit,

Tac. A. 3, 1.— Impers. pass.:

ubicumque iniquo successum est loco,

Liv. 9, 31.—

To follow, follow after, take the place of, relieve, come into the place of, succeed; to succeed to, receive by succession (syn. subsequor).

Lit.:

ut integri et recentes defatigatis succederent,

Caes. B. G. 5, 16; 7, 41; id. B. C. 3, 94; cf. Liv. 9, 32; Ov. M. 13, 134:

in stationem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 32:

in pugnam,

Liv. 9, 27;

for which, proelio,

id. 6, 4:

in paternas opes,

id. 21, 3:

in Pompeii locum heres,

Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62; cf.:

Sequani principatum dimiserant. In eorum locum Remi successerant,

Caes. B. G. 6, 12:

ego in ejus quem occidissem succederem locum,

Liv. 40, 12, 13:

succedam ego vicarius tuo muneri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; 2, 3, 51, § 120; id. Fam. 3, 3, 1; cf. id. Fl. 14, 33; 21, 49:

qui regno successit,

Plin. 36, 27, 70, § 204:

post ejus mortem frater regno successit,

Just. 17, 3, 6:

in hujus locum filia regno successit,

id. 2, 4, 17;

but: in regnum,

id. 7, 2, 2:

huic Mithridates filius succedit,

id. 42, 2, 3:

ad alteram partem succedunt Ubii,

follow, come next, Caes. B. G. 4, 3.—Of things:

aspicit in teretes lignum succedere suras,

Ov. M. 11, 80. — Impers. pass.:

non solum, quod tibi succederetur, sed quod Gabinio non succederetur,

Cic. Pis. 36, 88:

te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse,

id. Fam. 3, 6, 2.—

Trop.

To come or enter into a relation:

in affinitatis jura,

Just. 7, 3, 9.—

To follow, follow after, succeed.

In time:

successit ipse magnis (oratoribus),

Cic. Or. 30, 105:

horum aetati successit Isocrates,

id. ib. 13, 40; cf.:

nihil semper floret: aetas succedit aetati,

id. Phil. 11, 15, 39:

tertia post illas successit aënea proles,

Ov. M. 1, 125:

quorum priores duae probationi succedunt,

Quint. 3, 9, 1:

in Italiā violis succedit rosa,

Plin. 21, 11, 39, § 68: etenim ei succedo orationi, quae, etc., I succeed, I speak after an oration, which, etc., Cic. Balb. 1, 4:

consules, quo majori gloriae rerum gestarum succedere se cernebant,

Liv. 4, 11, 2:

rex... succedens tantae caritati Hieronis,

id. 24, 5, 1:

ut bono succedenti regi difficilis aemulatio esset,

id. 1, 48, 8.—

To follow, take the place of, succeed in value: cujus (purpurae) libra denariis centum venibat... huic successit dibapha Tyria, quae in libras denariis mille non poterat emi, Nep. ap. Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 137:

in vicem ejus (graminis) succedit decoctum,

Plin. 24, 19, 118, § 179:

non numero tantum amissorum civium, sed et dignitati,

Just. 3, 5, 7:

filii magnitudini patris successerunt,

id. 19, 1, 2.— Pass. impers.:

male gestis rebus alterius successum est,

Liv. 9, 18, 15.—

Hence, to follow the nature or rule of any thing, to belong to a class or category (rare):

succedere hanc quoque comparativo generi,

Quint. 3, 10, 4:

quae omnia succedunt legitimis quaestionibus,

id. 3, 6, 71.—

Pregn.: res (alicui) succedit, or simply succedit, goes on well, is successful, prospers, succeeds (cf. evenit):

lepide hoc succedit sub manus negotium,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 59:

negotium (ei) sub manus,

id. ib. 4, 4, 7; id. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

quando hoc bene successit,

Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 23:

parum succedit, quod ago,

id. And. 4, 1, 54:

pleraque non succedunt,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 16:

quod res nulla successerat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

inceptum non succedebat,

Liv. 42, 58:

nihil conceptae temere spei succedebat,

id. 33, 5, 3:

voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit,

Verg. A. 11, 794:

si prospere prima successerint,

Just. 9, 3, 7.— Absol.:

hac non successit: aliā ingrediemur viā,

Ter. And. 4, 1, 45:

si quando minus succedet,

Cic. Or. 28, 98:

si ex sententiā successerit,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 1: si proinde, ut ipse mereor, mihi successerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 4:

si successisset coeptis,

Liv. 25, 37:

inceptis,

id. 24, 19:

fraudi,

id. 38, 25:

facinori eorum,

id. 40, 11 et saep.:

successurumque Minervae Indoluit,

Ov. M. 2, 788.— Pass.: cum omnia meā causā velles mihi successa, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 2.— Impers.:

nolle successum non patribus,

Liv. 2, 45, 5:

ubicumque iniquo successum erat loco,

id. 9, 31, 13 Weissenb. ad loc.