disappear

ē-vānesco, nŭi, 3 ( part. fut. evaniturus, Lact. 5, 4 fin.), v. inch. n., to vanish or pass away, to die away, to disappear (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

Bacchi cum flos evanuit (with diffugere in auras),

Lucr. 3, 222:

evanescere paulatim et decrescere pondus,

id. 5, 536:

evanescere stinguique colorem,

id. 2, 828:

pruna,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 6:

aquae,

to evaporate, Sen. Q. N. 3, 24; cf.:

vinum et salsamentum vetustate,

i. e. to lose its strength, become vapid, Cic. Div. 2, 57:

cornuaque extremae velut evanescere lunae,

Ov. M. 2, 117 et saep.:

et procul in tenuem ex oculis evanuit auram,

Verg. A. 9, 658; Ov. M. 14, 432; id. F. 2, 509.—

Of persons who flee or hide themselves through fear, Flor. 3, 3, 18; Amm. 16, 6, 3. —

Trop.: ne cum poëta scriptura evanesceret, to die away, sink into oblivion, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 5; cf.:

omnis eorum memoria sensim obscurata est et evanuit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 95:

orationes,

id. Brut. 27 fin.:

Hortensius,

id. ib. 94:

sententiae Aristonis, Pyrrhonis (opp. stabilitatem habere),

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 85 et saep.:

postea quam extenuari spem nostram et evanescere vidi,

id. Att. 3, 13:

rumor,

Liv. 28, 25; 44, 31:

fama,

id. 33, 8:

ingenium,

id. 2, 48:

omnis vis herbarum,

Ov. M. 14, 356:

bella per taedia et moras (opp. valida impetu),

Tac. H. 2, 32: donatio, i. e. to lose its effect (opp. valere), Dig. 24, 1, 11, § 7; cf.:

actio dotis,

ib. 24, 3, 21:

evanescunt haec atque emoriuntur comparatione meliorum,

Quint. 12, 10, 75.

ex-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( subj. perf. sync. excessis, Ter. And. 4, 4, 21), v. n. and a.

Neut., to go out, go forth or away, to depart, retire, withdraw (freq. and class.; cf.: discedo, deficio, destituo, desero, linquo, relinquo).

Lit.

In gen., with ex and abl., with abl. alone, or absol.:

ex istoc loco,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 18:

e medio,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 14:

ex civitate,

Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 8:

ex Italia,

Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 14:

e templo,

Liv. 29, 19;

for which, templo,

id. 39, 5:

ex finibus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 33, 2;

for which, finibus,

id. ib. 4, 18 fin.; 7, 77, 14; Liv. 30, 42; 41, 19 al.: ex illa circumscriptione, [p. 675] Cic. Phil. 8, 8:

ex itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 79 fin.; cf.:

ex via,

id. B. G. 5, 19, 1;

for which, viā,

Liv. 24, 20:

ex pugna, ex proelio,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 3; 4, 33, 2;

for which, more freq., pugnā,

id. B. G. 5, 36, 3; id. B. C. 2, 7, 1; Liv. 44, 42; Verg. A. 9, 789 al.;

and, proelio,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1; 3, 4, 3; 4, 12 fin.; 7, 80, 3; cf.

acio,

id. B. C. 2, 41, 7; 3, 94, 5; Liv. 31, 17:

loco,

Caes. B. C. 1, 44, 2; 3, 45, 4; Liv. 36, 10, 15; so,

locis,

id. 38, 27, 9; 27, 1, 5;

and bello,

Sall. C. 9, 4:

domo,

Caes. B. G. 4, 14 fin.:

oppido,

id. ib. 7, 78, 1; cf.

urbe,

Liv. 26, 24; 30, 7; 31, 17 et saep.:

Arimino,

Caes. B. C. 1, 10, 3; 1, 11, 1:

Galliā,

id. B. G. 7, 66, 4:

provinciis,

id. B. C. 1, 85 fin.:

patriā,

Verg. A. 1, 357:

sceleratā terrā,

id. ib. 3, 60 et saep.—With de (very rare):

de utero matris,

i. e. to be born, Dig. 1, 5, 15.— Absol.:

abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1:

excedere deos, simul ingens motus excedentium,

Tac. H. 5, 13:

primi omnium Macedones metu excesserant,

Liv. 42, 67 fin. —Designating the terminus:

cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 21:

agro hostium in Boeotiam,

Liv. 31, 26 fin.:

ex his tenebris in lucem illam,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30 fin.; cf.:

ad deos,

Vell. 1. 2:

invictum fore donec excederet ad deos,

Curt. 4, 7, § 27:

in exsilium,

Dig. 48, 19, 4;

in which sense also simply excedere,

ib. 48, 22, 7, § 17.—

In partic.

To go beyond, overstep, rise above, overtop a certain boundary.—Of personal subjects very rarely:

alter in Pontum, alter usque Aegyptum excessit,

Just. 1, 1, 6.—More freq. of inanimate subjects:

ut nulla (pars) excederet extra,

Cic. Univ. 5; Cels. 8, 9 fin.; cf.

with eminere,

id. 8, 25 fin.:

montes et excedentia in nubes juga,

Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 3.—

To depart from life, to decease, to die (cf. decedo):

sic ille cum undequadraginta annos regnavisset, excessit e vita,

Cic. Rep. 2, 14 fin.; so,

e vita,

id. Fin. 3, 18, 60; id. Brut. 20 fin.; id. Lael. 3 fin.; id. Off. 1, 43, 153:

vitā,

id. Tusc. 1, 13, 29; id. Brut. 75, 262; id. N. D. 3, 16, 41; Val. Max. 2, 6, 8; 5, 5, 3; Curt. 3, 1, 21; 9, 6, 6; Tac. H. 4, 75:

e medio,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74 Ruhnk.; and simply excedere (postAug.;

but v. decedo excessus, I.),

Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; Tac. A. 1, 5 fin.; 1, 33; Suet. Aug. 5; id. Claud. 45; id. Vesp. 2; id. Tit. 11; Val. Fl. 1, 826; Curt. 10, 5, 2; Sen. Ep. 77, 10.—

Trop.

In gen. (very rarely):

cum animus Eudemi e corpore excesserit,

Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24; 1, 32, 78; id. Lael. 4, 13 al.:

corpore excedere,

id. Div. 1, 30, 63: ex pristina bellandi consuetudine, Auct. B. Afr. 73: palmā, to recede from victory, to yield the victory (= decedere alicui de victoria), Verg. A. 5, 380.—Far more freq.,

In partic.

(Acc. to A. 2. a.) To go beyond a certain boundary or a certain measure, to advance, proceed, to transgress, digress (= procedere, progredi): mihi aetas ex magisterio tuo: Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 40:

is postquam excessit ex ephebis,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 (quoted in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327); cf.:

ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias,

Cic. Arch. 3:

ad patres etiam et ad publicam querimoniam excessit res,

Liv. 25, 1; cf. Val. Max. 5, 6, 4:

haec eo anno in Africa gesta. Insequentia excedunt in eum annum, quo, etc.,

Liv. 30, 26; cf. id. 21, 15:

paululum ad enarrandum, etc.,

to digress, Liv. 29, 29, 5; cf.:

in fabellam,

Sen. Ep. 77:

in aliquid,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 44 fin.:

res parva dictu, sed quae studiis in magnum certamen excesserit,

Liv. 34, 1; cf. id. 33, 35 fin.; 8, 33; cf. id. 3, 41:

eo laudis excedere, quo, etc.,

to attain that height of fame, Tac. Agr. 42 fin.: tantum illa clades novitate et magnitudine excessit, i. e. exceeded, went beyond = eminuit, Tac. A. 2, 24.—

(Acc. to A. 2. b.) To depart, disappear:

cura ex corde excessit,

Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12:

cum cupiditatum dominatus excessit,

Cic. Par. 5, 3, 40:

jam e memoria excessit, quo tempore? etc.,

Liv. 26, 13;

for which, memoriā,

id. 7, 32 fin.:

ubi reverentia excessit animis,

Curt. 8, 8.— Poet.:

Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque?

i. e. have they slipped from your memory? Sil. 15, 35.

Act. (post-Aug.).

Lit., to depart from, to leave a place:

urbem,

Liv. 2, 37, 8; 1, 29, 6; 3, 57, 10;

23, 1: curiam,

id. 45, 20; cf. pass. impers.:

Crotonem excessum est,

id. 24; 3 fin. —

Transf., to go beyond, surpass, exceed a certain limit, to overtop, tower above (cf. above, I. A. 2. a., and B. 2. a.):

nubes excedit Olympus,

Luc. 2, 271:

statura, quae justam excederet,

Suet. Tib. 68:

summam octoginta milium,

Liv. 39, 5;

so of numbers, very freq.,

Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22; 13, 3, 4, § 20; Quint. 9, 4, 79; Tac. A. 1, 14; Suet. Aug. 77 al.; cf.

also of age,

Col. 6, 21:

triennium vitae,

Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166:

annum aetatis centesimum,

id. 25, 2, 5, § 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4; 3, 7, 9; Suet. Gramm. 7;

of measure: laborum periculorumque modum,

Vell. 2, 122 fin.; so,

modum,

Liv. 26, 19; 28, 25; Quint. 3, 6, 62; 8, 3, 48 al.:

eloquentia aut aequavit praestantissimorum gloriam aut excessit,

Suet. Caes. 55; cf.:

praeturae gradum,

id. Oth. 1:

principum fastigium,

id. Calig. 22:

fastigium equestre,

Tac. A. 4, 40:

excedente humanam fidem temeritate,

Vell. 2, 51, 3; so,

fidem,

Plin. 7, 21, 21, § 85; Ov. M. 7, 166:

excessisse Priscum inmanitate et saevitia crimina, quibus, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 2:

nemine tantum ceteros excedente, ut ei aliquis se summitteret,

Just. 13, 2.—With simple acc.:

decretum, ne vasa auro solida ministrandis cibis fierent, etc.... Excessit Fronto ac postulavit modum argento,

went beyond the proposal, Tac. A. 2, 33 (cf.:

egredi relationem,

id. ib. 2, 38).— Pass.:

duo enim multitudo, unione jam excessā,

Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 5.

ex-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall out or down, to fall from (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense).

Lit.

In gen.: quod (animal) cum ex utero elapsum excidit, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

sol excidisse mihi e mundo videtur,

id. Att. 9, 10, 3:

gladii de manibus exciderunt,

id. Pis. 9 fin.; cf. id. Phil. 12, 3, 8; id. Cat. 1, 6 fin.;

for which also: inter manus (urna),

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 22; and:

a digitis (ansa),

Ov. H. 16, 252:

Palinurus exciderat puppi,

Verg. A. 6, 339; cf.

arce,

Ov. F. 5, 34:

equis,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1164:

num qui nummi exciderunt, here, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17; cf. id. Cist. 4, 2, 8; id. Merc. 3, 1, 44; id. Poen. 1, 2, 48:

volvae excidunt,

Plin. 36, 21, 39, § 151.— Poet.:

ita vinclis Excidet aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit,

will slip out of the fetters, Verg. G. 4, 410:

in flumen (elephanti, sc. e rate),

Liv. 21, 28 fin.:

cum Herculis pertractanti arma sagitta excidisset in pedem,

Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66:

ante pedes (lingua resecta),

Ov. Ib. 536.—

In partic., of a lot, to fall of come out (very rare):

ut cujusque sors exciderat,

Liv. 21, 42, 3;

and hence, transf.: nominibus in urnam conjectis, citari quod primum sorte nomen excidit,

id. 23, 3, 7.

Trop.

In gen., to fall out involuntarily, fall from, slip out, escape:

verbum ex ore alicujus,

Cic. Sull. 26; cf.:

vox excidit ore: Venisti tandem, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 686:

tantumque nefas patrio excidit ore?

id. ib. 2, 658; cf.:

scelus ore tuo,

Ov. M. 7, 172:

quod verbum tibi non excidit, ut saepe fit, fortuito,

Cic. Phil. 10, 2 fin.; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 23; 7, 2, 52; 9, 4, 41 al.:

libellus me imprudente et invito excidit,

escaped me without my knowledge or desire, Cic. de Or. 1, 21; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

vox horrenda per auras excidit,

Verg. A. 9, 113:

et pariter vultusque deo plectrumque colorque Excidit,

Ov. M. 2, 602; cf. id. ib. 4, 176:

ut quodammodo victoria e manibus excideret,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2:

(versus) qui in breves excidunt,

i. e. which close, terminate, Quint. 9, 4, 106.— Poet.: in vitium libertas excidit, qs. falls away, sinks, = delabitur, Hor. A. P. 282.—

In partic.

To dissent, differ from any one's opinion: ego ab Archilocho excido, Lucil. ap. Non. 301, 18.—

To pass away, be lost, perish, disappear:

neque enim verendum est, ne quid excidat aut ne quid in terram defluat,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

primo miser excidit aevo,

Prop. 3, 7, 7 (4, 6, 7 M.):

nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, etc.,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 30:

at non ingenio quaesitum nomen ab aevo Excidet,

Prop. 3, 2, 24 (4, 1, 64 M.):

excidit omnis luctus,

Ov. M. 8, 448:

ne Tarentinae quidem arcis excidit memoria,

Liv. 27, 3 fin.; cf. the foll.—Esp.

To fail, faint, swoon, lose one's self:

excidit illa metu, rupitque novissima verba,

Ov. A. A. 1, 5, 39; cf.: ut scias quemadmodum nunquam excidam mihi, lose control of myself (through drink), Sen. de Ira, 3, 14, 1:

quis me dolori reddit? quam bene excideram mihi!

Sen. Hippol. 589 sq. —

To slip out, escape from the memory:

excidere de memoria,

Liv. 29, 19 fin.:

exciderat pacis mentio ex omnium animis,

id. 34, 37; cf.

animo,

Verg. A. 1, 26; Ov. H. 20, 188;

and pectore,

id. Pont. 2, 4, 24:

o miram memoriam, Pomponi, tuam! at mihi ista exciderant,

Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 46; so with dat.:

quae cogitatio, cum mihi non omnino excidisset, etc.,

id. Fam. 5, 13, 2; id. Att. 6, 1, 7; Quint. 4, 5, 4; 10, 1, 75; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 20; 4 (5), 7, 15 et saep.; cf. with a subjectclause:

non excidit mihi, scripsisse me, etc.,

Quint. 2, 3, 10.— Absol.:

quid? non haec varietas mira est, excidere proxima, vetera inhaerere? hesternorum immemores acta pueritiae recordari,

id. 11, 2, 6; 1, 12, 6; 4, 2, 91; 4, 5, 2; cf. with inf. clause:

si calore dicendi vitare id excidisset,

id. 11, 3, 130; and with ut:

excidit, ut peterem, etc.,

i. e. I forgot to beg, Ov. M. 14, 139.—Rarely transf. to the person:

excidens,

who forgets, forgetful, Quint. 11, 2, 19:

palam moneri excidentis est,

id. 11, 3, 132.—

(Ex) aliquā re, of persons, to be deprived of, to lose, miss, forfeit (esp. freq. since the Aug. per.;

in Cic. not at all): ex familia,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 104:

uxore,

to be disappointed of, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12:

regno,

Curt. 10, 5:

quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis,

failed in a great attempt, Ov. M. 2, 328; cf.:

fine medicinae,

Quint. 2, 17, 25:

genere,

id. 1, 5, 16: qui apud privatos judices plus petendo formula excidissent, i. e. who lost their suits (for the usual cadere formulā or [p. 677] causā;

v. cado, II.),

Suet. Claud. 14; Sen. Clem. 2, 3.

ex-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut out or off, to hew out, to cut or hew down (class.).

Lit.:

lapides e terra,

Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.:

omnes arbores longe lateque,

Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 1; cf.:

excisa enim est arbor, non evulsa,

Cic. Att. 15, 4, 2: exciditur ilex (with percellunt magnas quercus), Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. 194 ed. Vahl.):

arborem e stirpe,

Dig. 43, 27, 1:

ericium,

Caes. B. C. 3, 67 fin.:

radicem,

Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82:

columnas rupibus,

Verg. A. 1, 428; cf.:

rubos arvis,

Quint. 9, 4, 5: linguam alicui, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1 fin.:

partum mulieri,

Dig. 11, 8, 2:

os,

Cels. 8, 3:

virilitatem,

i. e. to castrate, geld, Quint. 5, 12, 17;

for which also, se,

Ov. F. 4, 361; cf. Dig. 48, 8, 4 fin.:

vias per montes,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 125:

latus rupis in antrum,

Verg. A. 6, 42; cf.:

vasa anaglypta in asperitatem,

i. e. wrought with raised figures, Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 139: exciderat eum (sc. obeliscum) rex, majusque opus in devehendo statuendove multo quam in excidendo, i. e. cut out in the quarry, Plin. 36, 8, 14, § 67; absol., id. ib. § 65.—

Transf., in gen., to raze, demolish, lay waste, destroy:

qui domos inimicorum suorum oppugnavit, excidit, incendit,

Cic. Sest. 44:

Numantiam,

id. Off. 1. 22, 76; cf.

Trojam,

Verg. A. 2, 637:

urbem,

id. ib. 12, 762:

oppida,

Lact. 1, 18, 8:

Germaniam,

Vell. 2, 123 fin.:

agrum,

id. 2, 115:

exercitum,

i. e. to cut to pieces, annihilate, id. 2, 120, 3.—

Trop., to extirpate, remove, banish:

aliquid ex animo,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43; cf.:

iram animis, Sen. de Ira, 3, 1: aliquem numero civium,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 6.

ex-tābesco, bŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to pass away completely, to vanish, disappear.

Lit.: refugere oculi: corpus macie extabuit, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26:

is fame extabuit,

Suet. Galb. 7; Vulg. Thren. 4, 9.—

Trop.:

videmus ceteras opiniones fictas atque vanas diuturnitate extabuisse,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5.

fŭgĭo, fūgi, fŭgĭtum ( gen. plur. part. sync. fugientum, Hor. C. 3, 18, 1; part. fut. fugiturus, Ov. H. 2, 47 al.), 3, v. n. and a. [root FUG; Gr. PHUG, pheugô; Sanscr. bhuj; syn.: flecto, curvo; v. fuga], to flee or fly, to take flight, run away.

Lit.:

propera igitur fugere hinc, si te di amant,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 78; cf.:

a foro,

id. Pers. 3, 3, 31:

senex exit foras: ego fugio,

I am off, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 47:

cervam videre fugere, sectari canes,

id. Phorm. prol. 7:

qui fugisse cum magna pecunia dicitur ac se contulisse Tarquinios,

Cic. Rep. 2, 19:

Aeneas fugiens a Troja,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 72:

omnes hostes terga verterunt, nec prius fugere destiterunt, quam ad flumen Rhenum pervenerint,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53, 1:

oppido fugit,

id. B. C. 3, 29, 1:

ex ipsa caede,

to flee, escape, id. B. G. 7, 38, 3; cf.:

ex proelio Mutinensi,

Cic. Fam. 10, 14, 1:

e conspectu,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 107: Uticam, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 13: fenum habet in cornu;

longe fuge,

id. S. 1, 4, 34: nec furtum feci nec fugi, run away (of slaves), id. Ep. 1, 16, 46; cf.:

formidare servos, Ne te compilent fugientes,

id. S. 1, 1, 78; Sen. Tranq. 8.—

Prov.: ita fugias ne praeter casam,

i. e. in fleeing from one danger beware of falling into another, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 3 Ruhnk. —

In partic., like the Gr. pheugein, to become a fugitive, leave one's country, go into exile:

fugiendum de civitate, cedendum bonis aut omnia perferenda,

Quint. 6, 1, 19; so,

ex patria,

Nep. Att. 4, 4:

a patria,

Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 66:

in exilium,

Juv. 10, 160; cf. under II. A. b.—

Transf., in gen., to pass quickly, to speed, to hasten away, flee away; cf.:

numquam Vergilius diem dicit ire, sed fugere, quod currendi genus concitatissimum est,

Sen. Ep. 108 med. (mostly poet. and of inanim. and abstr. things):

tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus,

Verg. G. 4, 19:

Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 68:

concidunt venti fugiuntque nubes,

id. C. 1, 12, 30:

spernit humum fugiente pennā,

hasting away, rapidly soaring, id. ib. 3, 2, 24:

nullum sine vulnere fugit Missile,

Stat. Th. 9, 770:

insequitur fugientem lumine pinum (i. e. navem),

Ov. M. 11, 469:

fugere ad puppim colles campique videntur,

Lucr. 4, 389:

fugiunt freno non remorante dies,

Ov. F. 6, 772:

sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus,

Verg. G. 3, 284:

annus,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 40:

hora,

id. C. 3, 29, 48:

aetas,

id. ib. 1, 11, 7.—Of persons:

evolat ante omnes rapidoque per aëra cursu Callaicus Lampon fugit,

hastens away, Sil. 16, 335. Here perh. belongs: acer Gelonus, Cum fugit in Rhodopen atque in deserta Getarum, i. e. swiftly roves (as a nomade), Verg. G. 3, 462 (acc. to another explan., flees, driven from his abode).—

Pregn., to vanish, disappear, to pass away, perish:

e pratis cana pruina fugit,

Ov. F. 6, 730:

fugiunt de corpore setae,

id. M. 1, 739; cf.:

jam fessae tandem fugiunt de corpore vires,

Verg. Cir. 447;

for which: calidusque e corpore sanguis Inducto pallore fugit,

Ov. M. 14, 755:

fugerat ore color,

id. H. 11, 27:

nisi causa morbi Fugerit venis,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 15:

fugiunt cum sanguine vires,

Ov. M. 7, 859:

amor,

Prop. 1, 12, 12:

memoriane fugerit in annalibus digerendis, an, etc.,

Liv. 9, 44, 4:

gratissima sunt poma, cum fugiunt,

i. e. when they wilt, become wilted, Sen. Ep. 12; cf.: vinum fugiens, under P. a.—

Trop. (rare but class.):

nos naturam sequamur, et ab omni, quod abhorret ab oculorum auriumque approbatione, fugiamus,

Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128; cf.: omne animal appetit quaedam et fugit a quibusdam;

quod autem refugit, id contra naturam est, etc.,

id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Quint. 11, 1, 54:

ad verba,

to have recourse to, Petr. 132.

Act., to flee from, seek to avoid; to avoid, shun any thing.

Lit. (mostly poet.): erravi, post cognovi, et fugio cognitum, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38 (Trag. v. 160 Vahl.):

cum Domitius concilia conventusque hominum fugeret,

Caes. B. C. 1, 19, 2:

neminem neque populum neque privatum fugio,

Liv. 9, 1, 7:

vesanum fugiunt poëtam qui sapiunt,

Hor. A. P. 455:

percontatorem,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 69:

hostem,

id. S. 1, 3, 10:

lupus me fugit inermem,

id. C. 1, 22, 12:

nunc et ovis ultro fugiat lupus,

Verg. E. 8, 52:

(Peleus) Hippolyten dum fugit abstinens,

Hor. C. 3, 7, 18:

scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus et fugit urbes,

id. Ep. 2, 77; id. S. 1, 6, 126:

data pocula,

Ov. M. 14, 287; cf.

vina,

id. ib. 15, 323.— Pass.:

sic litora vento Incipiente fremunt, fugitur cum portus,

i. e. is left, Stat. Th. 7, 140. —

In partic. (cf. supra, I. A. b.), to leave one's country:

nos patriam fugimus,

Verg. E. 1, 4:

Teucer Salamina patremque cum fugeret,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 22.—Hence:

quis exsul Se quoque fugit?

Hor. C. 2, 16, 20.—

Transf. (causa pro effectu), to flee away from, to escape, = effugio ( poet.;

but cf. infra, B. 2.): hac Quirinus Martis equis Acheronta fugit,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 16:

insidiatorem,

id. S. 2, 5, 25:

cuncta manus avidas fugient heredis,

id. C. 4, 7, 19.—And in a poetically inverted mode of expression: nullum Saeva caput Proserpina fugit (= nemo tam gravis est, ad quem mors non accedat), none does cruel Proserpine flee away from, avoid (i. e. none escapes death), Hor. C. 1, 28, 20.—

Trop., to flee from, avoid, shun (very freq. and class.):

conspectum multitudinis,

Caes. B. G. 7, 30, 1:

ignominiam ac dedecus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 4:

nullam molestiam,

id. ib. 3, 5; cf.

laborem,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 114; Verg. A. 3, 459 (opp. ferre):

recordationes,

Cic. Att. 12, 18:

vituperationem tarditatis,

id. de Or. 2, 24, 101; cf.:

majoris opprobria culpae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 10:

judicium senatus,

Liv. 8, 33, 8:

vitium,

Quint. 2, 15, 16:

hanc voluptatem (with reformidare),

id. 8, 5, 32:

disciplinas omnes (Epicurus),

id. 2, 17, 15:

nuptias,

Ter. And. 4, 4, 27; cf.:

usum conjugis,

Ov. M. 10, 565:

conubia,

id. ib. 14, 69:

amplexus senis,

Tib. 1, 9, 74:

nec sequar aut fugiam, quae diligit ipse vel odit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 72:

spondeum et dactylum (opp. sequi),

Quint. 9, 4, 87.— Pass.:

simili inscitiā mors fugitur, quasi dissolutio naturae,

Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

quemadmodum ratione in vivendo fugitur invidia, sic, etc.,

Auct. Her. 4, 38, 50:

quod si curam fugimus, virtus fugienda est,

Cic. Lael. 13, 47:

fugiendas esse nimias amicitias,

id. ib. 13, 45:

fugienda semper injuria est,

id. Off. 1, 8, 25; id. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 103:

vitiosum genus fugiendum,

id. Or. 56, 189; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 128:

petenda ac fugienda,

id. 3, 6, 49.—

Like the Gr. pheugein, with inf. (mostly poet.), to avoid doing something, to omit, forbear, beware, = omittere, cavere:

illud in his rebus longe fuge credere, etc.,

Lucr. 1, 1052:

o fuge te tenerae puerorum credere turbae,

Tib. 1, 4, 9:

quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 13; cf.

also: fuge suspicari, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 4, 22:

mene igitur socium summis adjungere rebus, Nise, fugis?

Verg. A. 9, 200; cf. Ov. H. 9, 75:

fugeres radice vel herbā Proficiente nihil curarier,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 150; cf.:

neque illud fugerim dicere, ut Caelius, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153:

huic donis patris triumphum decorare fugiendum fuit?

id. Mur. 5, 11.—

Transf. (causa pro effectu; cf. supra, II. A. 2.), to escape ( poet. also of things as subjects):

tanta est animi tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50; Ov. F. 2, 80:

sed tamen admiror, quo pacto judicium illud Fugerit,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 100:

quos viros vigilantia fugit,

whom any vigilance escapes, Verg. G. 2, 265; cf. id. E. 9, 54.—

Esp. freq., res me fugit, it escapes me, escapes my notice; I do not observe it, do not know it (cf.:

latet, praeterit): novus ille populus vidit tamen id, quod fugit Lacedaemonium Lycurgum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 12; cf.:

illos id fugerat,

id. Fin. 4, 23, 63:

hominem amentem hoc fugit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 12, § 27:

quem res nulla fugeret,

id. Rep. 2, 1:

quae (ratio) neque Solonem Atheniensem fugerat, neque nostrum senatum,

id. ib. 2, 34;

1, 16: non fugisset hoc Graecos homines, si, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 59, 253:

neminem haec utilitas fugit,

Quint. 2, 5, 17:

nisi quae me forte fugiunt, hae sunt fere de animo sententiae,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 22; Quint. 9, 2, 107; 7, 1, 40:

nullam rem esse declarant in usu positam militari, quae hujus viri scientiam fugere possit,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:

quae (partitio) fugiet memoriam judicis,

Quint. 4, 5, 3; cf. Gell. 1, 18, 6.—With a subject-clause:

de Dionysio, fugit me ad te antea scribere,

Cic. Att. 7, 18, 3; 5, 12, 3:

illud alterum quam sit difficile, te non fugit,

id. ib. 12, 42, 2.—Hence, fŭgĭens, entis, P. a., fleeing, fleeting, vanishing.

Lit.:

accipiter,

Lucr. 3, 752:

membra deficiunt, fugienti languida vitā,

id. 5, 887:

vinum,

growing flat, spoiling, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91:

ocelli,

dying, Ov. Am. 3, 9, 49:

portus fugiens ad litora,

running back, retreating, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 15.—

Subst. in the later jurid. lang., like the Gr. ho pheugôn, the defendant:

omnimodo hoc et ab actore et a fugiente exigi,

Cod. Just. 2, 58, § 4 (for which, reus, § 7).—

Trop., with gen.:

nemo erat adeo tardus aut fugiens laboris, quin, etc.,

averse to labor, indolent, Caes. B. C. 1, 69, 3:

doloris,

Lact. 3, 8, 13:

solitudinis (with appeteus communionis ac societatis),

id. 6, 10, 18.— Comp., sup., and adv. do not occur.

nĕco, āvi, ātum ( perf. necuit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P.; v. infra; part. nectus, Ser. Samm. 33, 627; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.), 1, v. a. [Sanscr. naç, disappear; Gr. nekus, corpse, nekros, dead], to kill, slay, put to death, destroy (usually without a weapon, by poison, hunger, etc.; cf.: occido, interficio, interimo, perimo).

Lit.: neci datus proprie dicitur, qui sine vulnere interfectus est, ut veneno aut fame, Paul. ex Fest. p. 162 Müll.:

occisum a necato distingui quidam volunt, quod alterum a caedendo atque ictu fieri dicunt, alterum sine ictu, id. s. v. occisum, p. 178 ib.: necare aliquem odore taetro,

Lucr. 6, 787:

plebem fame,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

legatum P. R. vinculis ac verberibus necavit,

id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

aliquem igni,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53:

aliquem ferro,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 58; Verg. A. 8, 488:

veneno,

Suet. Ner. 43: securi Gell. 17, 21, 17; Juv. 10, 316:

suspendiosa fame,

Plin. 8, 37, 56, § 134:

vidissem nullos, matre necante, dies,

Ov. Am. 2, 14, 22:

homines in ventre necandos conducit,

Juv. 6, 596:

colubra necuit hominem,

Phaedr. 4, 14, 4.—Of impersonal subjects: hos pestis necuit, pars occidit illa duellis, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 861 P. (Ann. v. 549 Vahl.):

lien necat, renes dolent,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21:

radices herbarum vomere,

Col. 2, 4, 1:

salsi imbres necant frumenta,

Plin. 31, 4, 29, § 52:

hedera arbores,

id. 16, 44, 92, § 243; cf. Laber. ap. Macr. Sat. 2, 7:

aquae flammas necant,

quench, Plin. 31, 1, 1, § 2; to drown (late Lat.):

deducti ad torrentem necati sunt,

Sulp. Sev. Hist. 1.—

Trop.:

quid te coërces et necas rectam indolem,

i. e. thwart, check, Sen. Hippol. 454.—So to worry or bore to death with talking, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 43 (cf.:

occidis saepe rogando,

Hor. Epod. 14, 5).

nŏcĕo, cŭi, cĭtum, 2 ( inf. pres. pass. nocerier, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 73; gen. plur. nocentūm, Ov. P. 1, 8, 19; perf. subj. noxit: ne boa noxit, Lucil. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Fama, p. 360 Müll.; Fronto ad M. Caesarem, 3, 13 Mai.), v. n. (and a.; v. infra e) [Sanscr. root nac, disappear; Gr. nekus; cf.: neco, nex, noxa, pernic-ies], to do harm, inflict injury, do hurt to (cf.: obsum, obficio, laedo).—Constr.

Absol. or with dat.:

declinare ea, quae nocitura videantur,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

arma alia ad tegendum, alia ad nocendum,

id. Caecin. 21, 60:

nihil nocet,

it does no harm, id. Att. 12, 47, 1:

nocere alteri,

id. Off. 3, 5, 23:

jurejurando accepto, nihil iis nocituros hostes,

Caes. B. C. 3, 28:

jura te nociturum non esse homini de hac re nemini,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 18.—

With a homogeneous or a general (pronominal) object: OB EAM REM NOXAM NOCVERVNT, have been guilty of a crime, from an old fetial formula, Liv. 9, 10, 9:

si uredo aut grando quippiam nocuit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 86:

quid nocet haec?

Juv. 14, 153.—

In pass. (very rare), to be harmed, injured:

larix ab carie aut a tineā non nocetur,

Vitr. 2, 9 med.:

noceri eas (ciconias) omnibus quidem locis nefas ducunt, sed, etc.,

Sol. 40 fin. —

Impers. pass. (class.), an injury is done or inflicted:

ut ne cui noceatur,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31:

mihi nihil ab istis noceri potest,

id. Cat. 3, 12, 37: ut in agris vastandis [p. 1212] hostibus noceretur, Caes. B. G. 5, 19:

ipsi nihil nocitum iri,

id. ib. 5, 36:

neque diem decet me morari, neque nocti nocerier,

that injury be done to the night, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 73.—

Act. (late Lat.):

nihil illum nocuit,

Vulg. Luc. 4, 35; id. Act. 7, 26; 18, 10.—Hence, nŏcens, entis, P. a., that commits a wicked action, bad, wicked, culpable, criminal (cf.:

sons, reus): nocens et nefarius,

Cic. Off. 2, 14, 51:

homines nocentissimi,

id. Div. in Caecil. 3, 9:

nocentissima victoria,

id. Verr. 1, 14, 41:

nocentissimi mores,

Quint. 2, 15, 32: meritā caede nocentūm ( poet. for nocentium; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 35, 45), Ov. P. 1, 8, 19.—

In gen., hurtful, harmful, pernicious, baneful, injurious:

a pestiferis et nocentibus refugere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120:

boletus,

Juv. 6, 620.— Comp.:

edit cicutis allium nocentius,

Hor. Epod. 3, 3.—Hence, adv.: nŏcenter, hurtfully, injuriously (not ante-Aug.):

nocenter armata,

Col. 8, 2, 10:

abscessus nocenter adulescit,

Cels. 5, 28, 11; Tert. Apol. 14.

pĕr-ĕo, ĭi (īvi), ĭtum, īre (periet for peribit, Coripp. Johann. 7, 27; perf. perivit, App. M. 4, 21:

perīt,

Juv. 8, 85:

perisset,

Lact. 3, 20, 17 al.:

perisse,

Liv. 1, 49, 1; Ov. Am. 2, 19, 56; fut. periet, Vulg. Sap. 4, 19 al.), v. n.

To pass away, come to nothing; to vanish, disappear, be lost:

e patriā,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 5:

ecqua inde perisset soror,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15:

ne vena periret aquae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16.—

Esp., to pass through, leak, be absorbed ( poet.):

lymphae Dolium pereuntis,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 27; cf.:

postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether In gremium matris terrai praecipitavit,

Lucr. 1, 250.—

To pass away, to be destroyed, to perish (the predom. and class. signif. of the word; syn.: occĭdo, intereo, obeo).

In gen.:

aedes cum fundamento perierint,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 69:

tantam pecuniam tam brevi tempore perire potuisse,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11:

totum exercitum periturum,

Nep. Epam. 7, 4:

fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (in the game of chess),

let your knight be taken by a pawn, Ov. A. A. 2, 208:

causae cur urbes perirent,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 19:

peritura regna,

Verg. G. 2, 498:

puppis,

Ov. F. 3, 600:

Troja peritura,

Verg. A. 2, 660:

pereunt sole tepente nives,

melt away, Ov. F. 3, 236:

telum rubigine,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 13:

comae,

Ov. Am. 1, 14, 30:

fabae laeso flore,

id. F. 5, 267.—Of the crocus:

gaudet calcari et atteri, pereundoque melius provenit,

Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 34.—

In partic.

To perish, lose one's life, die (class.): non intellego, quamobrem, si vivere honeste non possunt, perire turpiter velint;

aut cur minore dolore perituros se cum multis, quam si soli pereant, arbitrentur,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

summo cruciatu supplicioque,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

fame,

id. Inv. 2, 57, 172:

eodem leto esse pereundum,

id. Div. 1, 26, 56:

morbo,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 86:

naufragio,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 25:

hominum manibus,

Verg. A. 3, 606:

uterque juravit, periturum inter nos secretum,

that it should perish with us, Petr. 21:

ab Hannibale,

at his hands, Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189:

perire turpiter,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

fortiter,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 42:

generosius,

id. C. 1, 37, 21:

a morbo,

Nep. Reg. 3, 3.—

To pine away with love, to be desperately in love; to love to desperation ( poet.):

indigno cum Gallus amore peribat,

Verg. E. 10, 10; Cat. 45, 3:

quo beatus Vulnere, quā pereat sagittā,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 11:

ipse Paris nudā fertur periisse Lacaenā,

Prop. 2, 12, 13.—With acc. of the beloved object, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 135.—

To be lost, wasted, spent in vain:

ne et oleum et opera perierit,

Cic. Att. 2, 17, 1:

tempora,

Ov. R. Am. 107:

labor,

id. M. 1, 273:

nullus perit otio dies,

Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14:

ne nummi pereant,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 133:

minae,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 25:

aurum,

Col. 11, 1, 29; cf.

actiones,

Liv. 39, 18.—

To be lost, ruined, undone:

quid fieri tum potuit? jampridem perieramus,

Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1:

meo vitio pereo,

id. ib. 11, 9, 1.—Hence, perii, etc., as an exclamation of despair, I am lost! I'm undone! hei mihi, disperii! vocis non habeo satis:

vicini, interii, perii,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 36:

perii, interii, occidi! quo curram! quo non curram?

id. Aul. 4, 9, 1:

perii animo,

am disheartened, id. Rud. 2, 6, 26; cf.:

ingenio perii,

Ov. Tr. 2, 2; Lucr. 4, 1136:

periimus, actum est,

we are lost, it is all over with us, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 26:

perierat et inventus est,

Vulg. Luc. 24, 32; 15, 6.—So, peream, si, nisi, in asseverations, may I perish, may I die, if or if not, Ov. H. 17, 183; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 4; Ov. P. 3, 5, 47; id. H. 17, 183.— Gerund and gerundive:

nisi illud perdo argentum, pereundum est mihi,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 91; Prop. 2, 1, 53:

pereundi figurae,

Ov. H. 10, 81:

pereundi terminus,

Sil. 3, 559:

puppis pereunda est probe,

must be lost, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 70.—

Trop., of moral qualities, etc.:

pudor periit,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 81:

fides,

id. Truc. 1, 1, 24:

virtus,

Ov. F. 2, 227.

per-frĭco, cui, cātum, and ctum, āre, v. a.

Lit., to rub all over, to rub or scratch (class.):

caput unguento,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62:

totam faciem fuligine,

Petr. 22; Cels. 3, 14:

totum corpus,

id. 1, 3; Plin. 28, 12, 51, § 190: perfrictis oculis, App. M. 2, p. 125, 28:

dentes,

Ov. A. A. 3, 216:

caput sinistrā manu perfricans,

scratching his head, Cic. Pis. 25, 61.—

Transf.: frontem, faciem, os, to rub one's forehead or face, in order to make one's blushes disappear; hence, to lay aside all sense of shame, to cast off shame, summon one's assurance, put on a bold face (class.):

cum os perfricuisti,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 41:

vitiosa sunt illa... perfricare faciem et quasi improbam facere,

Quint. 11, 3, 160:

cum perfricuit frontem posuitque pudorem,

Mart. 11, 27, 7: perfrica frontem et dic, Calv. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 25: perfricui faciem, Plin. H. N. praef. § 4.

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.

vānesco, ĕre, v. inch. n. [vanus], to pass away, disappear, vanish ( poet. and in postAug. prose).

Lit.:

incipiunt gravidae vanescere nubes,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 107:

Ceres in sterilem herbam,

id. Am. 3, 7, 31:

spiritus meus in auras,

id. H. 12, 85:

cuncta in cinerem,

Tac. H. 5, 7:

nigra sed infusā vancscat sepia lymphā,

Pers. 3, 13:

(nubes) pondere suo victa in latitudinem vanescebat,

Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 6.—

Trop.:

vanescitque absens et novus intrat amor,

Ov. A. A. 2, 358:

inanis credulitas tempore ipso,

Tac. A. 2, 40; cf.:

tempore ac spatio vanescere,

id. ib. 2, 82:

ira plebis,

id. ib. 5, 9:

dicta per auras,

Ov. Am. 2, 14, 41:

vos nolite pati nostrum vanescere luctum,

i. e. to be in vain, Cat. 64, 199:

cavendum est ne ipsa expositio vanescat,

Quint. 4, 3, 8:

quod magnificum alio referente fuisset, ipso qui gesserat recensente vanescit,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 15.