(verb) : dēgo, dēgi, 3, de-ago
* To spend, pass, sc. time (for syn. cf.: ago, gero, facio—very freq. and class.).
* With acc.: a mane ad noctem usque in foro dego diem,Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 3; so, diem in laetitia,Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 6: aetatem,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 79; Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 70; Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 150; id. Fin. 2, 35, 118 al.: omne tempus aetatis,id. de Sen. 1, 2: aevom,Lucr. 2, 1094; 5, 173; Cic. Fragm. ap. Augustin. Trin. 4, 2: vitam,Lucr. 3, 313; Cic. Sull. 27, 75; Verg. A. 4, 551 al.: quod reliquum est vitae,Cic. Fam. 11, 28 fin.: senectam turpem,Hor. Od. 1, 31, 20: otia pacato in thalamo, Catull. 68, 104 al.—Pass.: quantis periclis degitur hoc aevi,Lucr. 2, 16; so, aetas,id. 4, 1178; Cic. Lael. 23, 87; id. Off. 1, 32, 117; id. N. D. 1, 19, 50: vita,id. Fin. 4, 12, 30; Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 5 al.
* To carry on, wage: nautae contractum cum ventis degere bellum (cf.: agere, peragere bellum),Lucr. 4, 968.!*? 'DEGERE antiqui posuerunt pro exspectare,' Paul. ex Fest. 73, 4 Müll.

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