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ăb-ĕo, ĭvi or ii, ītum, īre, v. n. (abin= abisne, Plaut. and Ter.; abiit, dissyl., v. Herm. Doctr. Metr. p. 153), to go from a place, to go away, depart.

Lit..

In gen., constr. with ab, ex, the simple abl., the acc. with in, the local adv. hinc, and absol.:

abeo ab illo,

Plaut. Cure. 2, 3, 70:

abi in malam rem maxumam a me,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 72 (v. infra); so id. Bacch. 4, 9, 107:

abin e conspectu meo?

id. Am. 1, 3, 20 (but also abin ab oculis? id. Trin. 4, 2, 140: id. Truc. 2, 5, 24):

ablturos agro Argivos,

id. Am. 1, 1, 53:

abire in aliquas terras,

Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

insanus, qui hinc abiit modo,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 61:

abi prae, jam ego sequar,

go on, I will soon follow, id. Am. 1, 3, 45. —With supine:

abiit exsulatum,

into exile, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 6; Liv. 2, 15 fin.; cf.:

abi deambulatum,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 26. — Absol.:

(Catilina) abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,

Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1:

praetor de sellā surrexit atque abiit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 65 fin.:

quae dederat abeuntibus,

Verg. A. 1, 196 al.:

sub jugum abire,

Liv. 3, 2, 8 fin. — With inf.:

abi quaerere,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 26. —Of things:

cornus sub altum pectus abit,

penetrates deeply, Verg. A. 9, 700.

In partic.

To pass away, so that no trace remains; to disappear, vanish, cease.

Of man, to die:

qui nune abierunt hinc in communem locum (i.e. in Orcum),

Plaut. Cas. prol. 19; cf.:

ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 30; so also Cic.: abiit e vitā, Tusc. 1, 30, 74 al. —

Of time, to pass away, elapse:

dum haec abiit hora,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 50:

menses,

id. Ad. 4, 5, 57:

annus,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

abit dies,

Cat. 61, 195:

tota abit hora,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 14. —

Of other things:

per inane profundum,

Lucr. 1, 1108:

nausea jam plane abiit?

Cic. Att. 14, 10, 2; so id. Fam. 9, 20; Ov. M. 7, 290 al.

To be changed from one's own ways or nature into something else, to be transformed, metamorphosed; always constr. with in (chiefly poet., esp. in Ov. M., as a constant expression for metamorphosis): terra abit in nimbos imbremque, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 24 Mūll.:

in corpus corpore toto,

to pass with their whole body into another, Lucr. 4, 1111:

aut abit in somnum,

is, as it were, wholly dissolved in sleep, is all sleep, id. 3, 1066: E in V abiit. Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Mūll.:

in villos abeunt vestes, in crura lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 236; id. ib. 2, 674:

jam barba comaeque in silvas abeunt,

id. ib. 4, 657; 4, 396; so id. ib. 3, 398; 8,555; 14, 499;

14, 551 al.: in vanum abibunt monentium verba,

will dissolce into nothing, Sen. Ep. 94 med.;

hence, in avi mores regem abiturum,

would adopt the ways of, Liv. 1, 32.

Trop.

In gen., to depart from, to leave off, to turn aside:

ut ab jure non abeat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 44, § 114; so,

ab emptione,

Dig. 2, 14, 7, § 6; 18, 2, 14, § 2 sq.:

a venditione,

ib. 18, 5, 1: sed abeo a sensibus, leave, i. e. speak no more of, Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 9; so often with longe: non longe abieris, you need not go far to seek for examples, id. Fam. 7, 19; cf.:

ne longius abeam,

id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47; id. Caec. 33, 95 al.:

quid ad istas ineptias abis?

why do you have recourse to —? id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47:

abit causa in laudes Cn. Pompeii,

Quint. 9, 2, 55:

illuc, unde abii, redeo,

I set out, Hor. S. 1, 1, 108:

pretium retro abiit,

has fallen, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 7.

In partic.

With abl., to retire from an office or occupation:

abiens magistratu,

Cic. Pis. 3, 6; id. Fam. 5, 2, 7: Liv. 2, 27 fin.; 3, 38 fin. al.; so,

abire consulatu,

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; cf.

flaminio,

Liv. 26, 23 fin.:

sacerdotio,

Gell. 6, 7, 4:

honore,

Suet. Aug. 26:

tutelā,

Dig. 26, 4, 3, § 8; cf.:

tutelā vel curā,

ib. 26, 10, 3, § 18 al.

Of the consequence or result of an action, to turn out, end, terminate:

mirabar hoc si sic abiret,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 4: cf.:

non posse ista sic abire,

Cic. Att. 14, 1; so id. Fin. 5, 3, 7; Cat. 14, 16 al.

In auctions, t. t., not to be knocked down to one:

si res abiret ab eo mancipe,

should not fall to him, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54; cf.:

ne res abiret ab eo,

that he may purchase it, id. 2, 3, 64; so Dig. 18, 2, 1; 50, 17, 205.

The imper. abi is often a simple exclamation or address, either with a friendly or reproachful signif.

Abi, Indis me, credo, Begone, you are fooling me! Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 32; so Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 25; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 205. —

Begone! be off! abi modo, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 20:

abi, nescis inescare homines,

Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12;

bence in the malediction, abi in malam rem!

go be hanged! Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 17:

abin hine in malam crucem?

id. Most. 3, 2, 163 (ef. Cic.: quin tu abis in malam pestem malumque cruciatum? Phil. 13, 21); v. crux and cruciatus.

dif-flŭo, ĕre, v. n., to flow in different directions, to flow away (class.; repeatedly in Lucr.—cf.: laxo, rescindo, solvo).

Lit.:

diffluere humorem cernis,

Lucr. 3, 436; cf.:

ut nos quasi extra ripas diffluentes coerceret,

Cic. Brut. 91 fin.; cf.:

in plures partes (Rhenus),

divides itself, Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 4:

ut ab summo tibi diffluat altus acervus,

Lucr. 3, 198.— Poet., of that from which any thing flows:

duo juvenes, Sudore multo diffluentes,

dripping with perspiration, Phaedr. 4, 25, 23; so,

sudore,

Plin. 21, 13, 44, § 75.—

Transf., to dissolve, melt away, disappear:

privata cibo natura animantum Diffluit amittens corpus,

Lucr. 1, 1038:

juga montium diffluunt,

Sen. Ep. 91, p. 19 Bip.;

so,

to be wasted, Amm. 15, 8, 18.—

Trop., to be dissolved in, abandoned to:

luxuriā et lasciviā,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 72:

luxuriā,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106:

luxu et inertia,

Col. 12 prooem. § 9, for which, in luxum, Prud: Symm. 1, 125:

deliciis,

Cic. Lael. 15; cf.:

otio diffluentes,

id. de Or. 3, 32 fin.:

luxu,

id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; cf.

risu,

App. M. 3, p. 132.—In rhet.:

diffluens ac solutum,

loose, not periodic, Cic. Or. 70; 233; cf.:

verbis humidis et lapsantibus diffluere,

Gell. 1, 15.

dīlūtus, a, um, P. a., diluted, thin, weak, soft (perh. only post-Aug.).

Lit.:

potio (opp. meraca),

Cels. 1, 3; cf.: vinum dilutius pueris, sonibus meracius, id.; and:

potio quam dilutissima, id.: solum dilutius,

Plaut. 17, 20, 33, § 144; hence also subst., dīlūtum, i, n., a liquid in which something has been dissolved, a solution, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 46:

rubor,

id. 22, 22, 46, § 92:

amethystus dilutior,

paler, id. 37, 9, 40, § 122;

colos,

id. 37, 5, 18, § 67: urina, Cels. [p. 581] 2, 6: odor, slight, faint (opp. acutus), Plin. 15, 28, 33, § 110 et saep.—

Transf., of a wine-drinker, drunk (opp. abstemius), Aus. Ep. a. Id. 11.—

Trop. (borrowed from colors), clear, manifest:

dilutior erat defectus,

Amm. 20, 3.—

* Adv.: dīlūtē, slightly, weakly: Gallos post haec dilutius esse poturos, Cic. Font. Fragm. ap. Amm. 15, 12, 2; acc. to others an adj., sc. vinum.

dīlūtus, a, um, P. a., diluted, thin, weak, soft (perh. only post-Aug.).

Lit.:

potio (opp. meraca),

Cels. 1, 3; cf.: vinum dilutius pueris, sonibus meracius, id.; and:

potio quam dilutissima, id.: solum dilutius,

Plaut. 17, 20, 33, § 144; hence also subst., dīlūtum, i, n., a liquid in which something has been dissolved, a solution, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 46:

rubor,

id. 22, 22, 46, § 92:

amethystus dilutior,

paler, id. 37, 9, 40, § 122;

colos,

id. 37, 5, 18, § 67: urina, Cels. [p. 581] 2, 6: odor, slight, faint (opp. acutus), Plin. 15, 28, 33, § 110 et saep.—

Transf., of a wine-drinker, drunk (opp. abstemius), Aus. Ep. a. Id. 11.—

Trop. (borrowed from colors), clear, manifest:

dilutior erat defectus,

Amm. 20, 3.—

* Adv.: dīlūtē, slightly, weakly: Gallos post haec dilutius esse poturos, Cic. Font. Fragm. ap. Amm. 15, 12, 2; acc. to others an adj., sc. vinum.

dīlūtus, a, um, P. a., diluted, thin, weak, soft (perh. only post-Aug.).

Lit.:

potio (opp. meraca),

Cels. 1, 3; cf.: vinum dilutius pueris, sonibus meracius, id.; and:

potio quam dilutissima, id.: solum dilutius,

Plaut. 17, 20, 33, § 144; hence also subst., dīlūtum, i, n., a liquid in which something has been dissolved, a solution, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 46:

rubor,

id. 22, 22, 46, § 92:

amethystus dilutior,

paler, id. 37, 9, 40, § 122;

colos,

id. 37, 5, 18, § 67: urina, Cels. [p. 581] 2, 6: odor, slight, faint (opp. acutus), Plin. 15, 28, 33, § 110 et saep.—

Transf., of a wine-drinker, drunk (opp. abstemius), Aus. Ep. a. Id. 11.—

Trop. (borrowed from colors), clear, manifest:

dilutior erat defectus,

Amm. 20, 3.—

* Adv.: dīlūtē, slightly, weakly: Gallos post haec dilutius esse poturos, Cic. Font. Fragm. ap. Amm. 15, 12, 2; acc. to others an adj., sc. vinum.

dī-mŏvĕo, ōvi, ōtum (DISMOTUM, v. infra), 2, v. a. (in MSS. and edd. often confounded with demoveo, q. v.; not freq. before the Aug. per.; not in Caes. and Quint.; perh. not in Cic., where demovere appears everywhere to be the better reading).

To move asunder, to part, put asunder, separate, divide:

terram aratro,

Verg. G. 2, 513; cf.:

glebas aratro,

Ov. M. 5, 341:

aera (c. c. dispellere umbras),

Verg. A. 5, 839; cf.

auras,

id. ib. 9, 645:

cinerem foco,

Ov. M. 8, 642:

undas,

Lucr. 6, 891; Ov. M. 4, 708; cf.

aquas,

id. H. 18, 80; 19, 48:

rubum,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 7.— Poet.:

ubi sol radiis terram dimovit abortus (preceded by: ubi roriferis terram nox obruit umbris),

cleaves the earth, lays it open, Lucr. 6, 869.—

Transf.

Of a multitude of persons or things, to separate from each other, to scatter, disperse, drive away, dismiss:

humentem umbram polo,

Verg. A. 3, 589; 4, 7; cf.:

gelidam umbram caelo,

id. ib. 11, 210:

obstantes propinquos,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 51:

turbam,

Tac. H. 3, 31; 80; Suet. Galb. 19; cf.:

dimotis omnibus,

Tac. H. 2, 49; cf.: VTEI EA BACANALIA SEI QVA SVNT... DISMOTA SIENT, i. e. be dissolved, abolished, S. C. de Bacchan. fin. —

To separate from something, to remove.

Lit.:

quos (equites) spes societatis a plebe dimoverat,

Sall. J. 42, 1; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23:

dimovit perfregitque custodias Poena,

Plin. Pan. 49:

parietes (al. demotis),

Tac. A. 6, 24:

plagulas (lecticae),

Suet. Tit. 10 al. —

Trop.: gaudentem patrios findere sarculo Numquam dimoveas, ut, etc., thou canst never entice away, in order to, etc., Hor. C. 1, 1, 13 (al. demo-).—

To move to and fro, to put in motion (cf. dimitto, no. I.—so perh. only in Celsus):

superiores partes,

Cels. 3, 27, 3:

manus,

id. 2, 14 fin.:

se inambulatione levi,

id. 4, 24 al.

dis-sĭlĭo, ŭi, 4, v. n. [salio], to leap or burst asunder, to fly apart.

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

duo de concursu corpora lata si cita dissiliant,

Lucr. 1, 385; cf. id. 1, 391; 2, 87:

dissiliunt ferventi saxa vapore,

id. 1, 491; so,

silex igni,

Plin. 36, 18, 29, § 135; cf.:

mucro ictu dissiluit,

Verg. A. 12, 740:

aera (sc. frigore),

id. G. 3, 363:

uva pressa pede,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 20:

haec loca vi quondam et vasta convolsa ruina Dissiluisse ferunt,

Verg. A. 3, 416; Sil. 5, 616:

omne solum,

Ov. M. 2, 260:

lamina,

id. ib. 5, 173; 12, 488 al.: boves degustatā bupresti, burst open, = dirumpere, Plin. 22, 22, 36, § 78; id. 29, 4, 27, § 89:

risu,

Sen. Ep. 113 fin.:

(vox) ubi Dissiluit semel in multas,

has broken up into many, Lucr. 4, 605 (preceded by: partis in cunctas dividitur vox).—

To leap:

in Jordanem,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 9, 48.—

Trop.:

gratia fratrum geminorum dissiluit,

was dissolved, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 42.

dis-sĭpo, or, acc. to many MSS., dis-sŭpo, āvi, ātum ( part. perf. in the tmesis:

disque supatis,

Lucr. 1, 651), 1, v. a. [SUPO = jacio, v. the art. ‡ supat; hence, i. q. disicio], to spread abroad, scatter, disperse (very freq. and class., esp. in Cic.).

Lit.

In gen.:

claras scintillas dissupat ignis,

Lucr. 6, 163; cf. id. 6, 181:

ignis totis se passim dissipavit castris,

Liv. 30, 5:

(Medea dicitur) in fuga fratris sui membra in iis locis, qua se parens persequeretur, dissipavisse,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 9, 22; cf.:

ossa Quirini,

Hor. Epod. 16, 14:

qui dissipatos homines congregavit et ad societatem vitae convocavit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; cf.:

dispersi ac dissipati discedunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 3; 2, 24, 4; id. B. C. 1, 55, 1 et saep.:

dissupat in corpus sese cibus omne animantum,

Lucr. 1, 350; cf.:

piceum venenum per ossa,

Ov. M. 2, 801; Cic. Div. 1, 34 fin. —Mid.:

hostes dispersi dissipantur in finitimas civitates,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 5 fin. Herz.; cf. Liv. 2, 28.—

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to disperse, rout, scatter, put to flight:

phalangem (for which, shortly after, disjecerunt),

Liv. 44, 41:

ordines pugnantium,

id. 6, 12 fin.; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 11:

aciem,

id. ib. 2, 1, 14:

hostes,

Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 3: classem, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14:

in fugam,

Liv. 8, 39, 8; cf Flor. 4, 11, 6:

omnes copias,

id. 3, 5, 11:

praesidia,

id. 4, 9, 4 et saep.—Hence poet.:

aper dissipat canes,

Ov. F. 2, 231; id. M. 8, 343.—

Transf., of abstract subjects:

dissipata fuga,

Liv. 28, 20; 38, 27; cf.:

collectis ex dissipato cursu militibus,

id. 2, 59; 9:

respublica dispersa et dissipata,

dissolved, id. 2, 28.—

Medic. t. t., like discutere, to disperse, dissipate, discuss morbid matter:

humorem,

Cels. 5, 28, 7:

suppurationem,

Scrib. Comp. 263.—

Pregn., to demolish, overthrow, destroy; to squander, dissipate:

statuam deturbant, affligunt, comminuunt, dissipant,

Cic. Pis. 38, 93; cf.

turres,

Vitr. 1, 5; Cic. Rep. 3, 33:

ignis cuncta disturbat et dissipat,

id. N. D. 2, 15, 41:

alii animum statim dissipari alii diu permanere censent,

id. Tusc. 1, 9, 18; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 24:

a majoribus possessiones relictas disperdere et dissipare,

id. Agr. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

rem familiarem,

id. Fam. 4, 7, 5: patrimonium, Crassus in Cic. de Or. 2, 55:

avitas opes per luxum,

Tac. A. 13, 34:

reliquias reip.,

Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 6:

terram,

Vulg. Ezech. 30, 12 et saep.

Trop.

In gen., to disperse, spread abroad, circulate, disseminate, scatter:

omnia fere, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa et dissipata quondam fuerunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42:

facilius est enim apta dissolvere quam dissipata conectere,

id. Or. 71, 235;

so of discourse,

unconnected, ill-arranged, id. ib. 65 fin.; 70, 233;

and transf. to the speaker: (Curio) cum tardus in cogitando, tum in instruendo dissipatus fuit,

id. Brut. 59 fin.:

famam istam fascium dissipaverunt,

they have spread abroad, published, id. Phil. 14, 6, 15; cf. Suet. Galb. 19; and with acc. and inf.:

cum homines lauti et urbani sermones hujusmodi dissipassent, me magna pecunia a vera accusatione esse deductum,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6 fin.; id. Fl. 6, 14; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1 fin.; Suet. Vesp. 6:

dissipatum passim bellum,

Liv. 28, 3.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 3.):

dissipat Evius curas edaces,

drives away, Hor. C. 2, 11, 17:

amplexus,

disturbs, interrupts, Stat. S. 3, 2, 57.

dī-vello, velli (Ov. M. 11, 38;

but divulsi,

Sen. Hippol. 1173), vulsum, 3, v. a.

To rend asunder, to tear in pieces, to separate violently, to tear (class.; cf.: findo, scindo, dirimo, segrego, secerno).

Lit.:

res a natura copulatas audebit divellere,

Cic. Off. 3, 18 fin.:

corpus, et undis spargere,

Verg. A. 4, 600; so,

corpus,

Ov. M. 4, 112:

agnam,

Hor. S. 1, 8, 27; cf.:

suos artus lacero morsu,

Ov. M. 8, 878:

membra,

id. Tr. 3, 9, 27; id. M. 13, 865 et saep.:

magnos montes manibus,

i. e. to cleave, Lucr. 1, 202; cf.:

mediam partem quercus (with discidere),

Gell. 15, 16, 3:

nodos manibus,

to untie, Verg. A. 2, 220:

paenulam sentibus,

Suet. Ner. 48:

nubem,

Lucr. 6, 203; cf.:

moenia mundi,

id. 6, 122.—

Trop., to tear violently apart, remove, destroy, sunder:

commoda civium,

Cic. Off. 2, 23, 82:

rem dissolutam divulsamque conglutinare,

id. de Or. 1, 41, 188; cf. id. ib. 3, 6, 24:

affinitas divelli nullo modo poterat,

to be dissolved, destroyed, id. Quint. 6, 25; cf.

amicitiam,

Sen. Ep. 6; and:

amorem querimoniis,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 19:

somnos (cura),

id. Ep. 1, 10, 18:

distineor et divellor dolore,

am distracted, Cic. Planc. 33, 79.—

(Like distraho, II.) To tear away, separate, remove from something (class.).

Lit.:

membra divellere ac distrahere,

Cic. Sull. 20 fin.:

aliquem ab aliquo,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 22; id. Mil. 36:

liberos a parentum complexu,

Sall. C. 51, 9;

for which: aliquem dulci amplexu,

Verg. A. 8, 568; cf.:

Damalin adultero,

Hor. C. 1, 36, 19:

nec me umquam Gyas (sc. a te),

id. ib. 2, 17, 15.—

Trop.:

sapientiam, temperantiam, a voluptate divellere ac distrahere,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50. —So of persons, to draw away from one in feeling, to estrange:

qui a me mei servatorem capitis divellat ac distrahat,

Cic. Planc. 42, 102.