dē-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3
* V. a., to send down; to drop; to let, sink, or bring down; to cause to hang or fall down; to lower, put down, let fall (freq. and class.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: picis e caelo demissum flumen,Lucr. 6, 257; cf.: caelo imbrem,Verg. G. 1, 23: caelo ancilia,Liv. 5, 54 et saep.: barbam malis,Lucr. 5, 673: latum clavum pectore,Hor. S. 1, 6, 28; cf.: monilia pectoribus,Verg. A. 7, 278: laenam ex humeris,id. ib. 4, 263: Maia genitum demittit ab alto, Verg. A. 1, 297; cf.: ab aethere currum, Ov M. 7, 219: e muro sporta,Sall. Hist. 2, 53: aliquem in sporta per murum,Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 33: taleam (sc. in terram),to put into the ground, plant,Cato R. R. 45, 2; arbores altius,Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 81: puteum alte in solido,i. e. to sink deep,Verg. G. 2, 231: triginta pedes in terram turrium fundamenta,Curt. 5, 1, 31: arbusta certo demittunt tempore florem,Lucr. 5, 670: demisit nardini amphoram cellarius (i. e. deprompsit),Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 12: fasces,Cic. Rep. 2, 31; cf. id. ib. 1, 40: cibos (sc. in alvum),Quint. 10, 1, 19; cf. Ov. M. 8, 835.—Naut. t. t., to lower, demittere antennas, Sall. Hist. 4, 41 Dietsch.; Auct. B. Alex. 45, 2: cornua (i.e. antennas),Ov. M. 11, 482; cf.: effugit hibernas demissa antenna procellas,id. Tr. 3, 4, 9: arma, classem, socios Rheno,Tac. A. 1, 45 fin.; cf.: farinam doliis secundā aquā Volturni fluminis, Frontin. Strat. 3, 14, 2; and pecora secundā aquā,id. ib. 3, 14, 4: manum artifices demitti infra pectus vetant,Quint. 11, 3, 112; cf. brachia,id. 2, 13, 9: frontem (opp. attolli),id. 11, 3, 78: supercilia (opp. allevari), ib. § 79: aures,Hor. Od. 2, 13, 34; cf. auriculas,id. S. 1, 9, 20: caput,Ov. M. 10, 192: crinem,id. ib. 6, 289: demisso capite,Vulg. Job 32, 6 al.: aliquos per funem,Verg. A. 2, 262; Hor. A. P. 461: vestem,id. S. 1, 2, 95; cf. tunicam,id. ib. 25: stolam,id. ib. 99 et saep.; often in a violent manner, to cast down, to cast, throw, thrust, plunge, drive, etc.: equum in flumen,Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73; cf.: equos a campo in cavam viam,Liv. 23, 47: aliquem in carcerem,Liv. 34, 44 fin.; cf. Sall. C. 55, 4: aliquem ad imos Manes,Verg. A. 12, 884: hostem in ovilia,Hor. Od. 4, 4, 10: gladium in jugulum,Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 28; cf.: ferrum in ilia,Ov. M. 4, 119: sublicas in terram,Caes. B. G. 3, 49, 4; cf.: huc stipites,id. ib. 7, 73, 3 and 6: huc caementa,Hor. Od. 3, 1, 35: nummum in loculos,to put,id. Ep. 2, 1, 175: calculum atrum in urnam,Ov. M. 15, 44: milia sex nummum in arcam nummariam,Nov. Com. v. 108 Rib.: caput ad fornicem Fabii, to bow, stoop, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267: tunicam ad talos, Varr. ap. Non. 286, 19; cf. Cic. Clu. 40, 111; Quint. 5, 13, 39 et saep.: quove velim magis fessas demittere naves,Verg. A. 5, 29; cf.: navem secundo amni Scodam,Liv. 44, 31.—Poet. with dat.: corpora Stygiae nocti tormentis,Ov. M. 3, 695; cf.: aliquem neci,Verg. A. 2, 85: aliquem Orco,id. ib. 2, 398; Hor. Od. 1, 28, 11: aliquem umbris,Sil. 11, 142: ferrum jugulo,Ov. H. 14, 5: ferrum lacubus,id. M. 12, 278: offa demittitur faucibus boum,Plin. 27, 11, 76, § 101.
* Trop., to cast down, let sink, etc.: demisere oculos omnes gemitumque dedere,Ov. M. 15, 612; cf.: vultu demisso,Vulg. Isa. 49, 23: demissis in terram oculis,Liv. 9, 38, 13; also in sleep: cadit inscia clavo Dextera, demittitque oculos,Val. Fl. 3, 41: vultum,Val. Max. 8, 14, 5; Curt. 6, 32, 1: vultum animumque metu,Ov. M. 7, 133; cf. vultus,id. ib. 10, 367; Liv. 2, 58. hoc in pectus tuum demitte, impress this deeply on your mind, Sall. J. 102 fin.; cf.: eas voces in pectora animosque,Liv. 34, 50; and: dolor hoc altius demissus, quo minus profiteri licet,Just. 8, 5, 11: cum in eum casum me fortuna demisisset, ut, etc., had reduced, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 2: dignitatem in discrimen,Liv. 3, 35: vim dicendi ad unum auditorem (opp. supra modum sermonis attolli),Quint. 1, 2, 31; to engage in, enter upon, embark in, meddle with: me penitus in causam,Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; cf.: me in res turbulentissimas,id. Fam. 9, 1, 2: cogita ne te eo demittas, unde, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16 fin.: se in comparationem,Suet. Rhet. 6: se in adulationem,to descend to,Tac. A. 15, 73: se usque ad servilem patientiam,id. ib. 14, 26: se ad minora illa,Quint. 1 prooem. § 1: re in secunda tollere animos et in mala demittere, to let it sink, i. e. to be disheartened, Lucil. ap. Non. 286, 7; cf.: si vicerint, efferunt se laetitia: victi debilitantur animosque demittunt,Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42; so, animos (with contrahere),id. Tusc. 4, 6 fin.; and: animum (with contrahere),id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, § 4: mentes,Verg. A. 12, 609 (desperant, sicut e contra sperantes aliquid erigunt mentes, Serv.); and with abl.: ne se admodum animo demitterent,Caes. B. G. 7, 29.—In geom., t. t., to let fall a line, Vitr. 3, 5, 5.—Hence, dēmissus, a, um, P. a., brought down, lowered.
* Esp., milit. t. t.
* To send, bring, or lead down soldiers into a lower place: in loca plana agmen demittunt,Liv. 9, 27; cf.: agmen in vallem infimam,id. 7, 34: equites Numidas in inferiorem campum,id. 27, 18: agmen in Thessaliam,id. 32, 13; 38, 2: exercitum in planitiem, Frontin. Strat. 1, 2, 7 al.; and without in: agmen,Liv. 9, 2: levem armaturam,id. 22, 28 al.: cum se major pars agminis in magnam convallem demisisset,had descended,Caes. B. G. 5, 32 fin.; so with se,id. ib. 6, 40, 6; 7, 28, 2; id. B. C. 1, 79, 4; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4 al.
* Arma demittere, in making a military salute: armis demissis salutationem more militari faciunt, with grounded arms, Auct. B. Afr. 85, 6.
* Lit.
* Of localities, sunken, low-lying, low (cf. dejectus, P. a., no. I.): campestribus ac demissis locis,Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 3; cf.: loca demissa ac palustria,id. B. C. 3, 49, 5.
* Trop.
* Downcast, dejected, dispirited, low (freq.): erigebat animum jam demissum,Cic. Clu. 21, 58: esse fracto animo et demisso,id. Fam. 1, 9, 16: (homines) animo demisso atque humili,id. Font. 11; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 21: demisso animo fuit,Sall. J. 98 al.: demissa voce loqui,Verg. A. 3, 320.—In the comp.: nihilo demissiore animo causa ipse pro se dicta,Liv. 4, 44.—Transf. to the person: quis P. Sullam nisi moerentem, demissum afflictumque vidit?Cic. Sull. 26 fin.: videsne illum demissum?id. Mur. 21, 45; Quint. 1, 3, 10 al.—Comp.: orator in ornamentis et verborum et sententiarum demissior,Cic. Or. 24, 81.
* Lowly, humble, unassuming, shy, retiring (opp. elatus, lofty, proud): ea omnia, quae proborum, demissorum, non acrium sunt, valde benevolentiam conciliant,Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 182; cf.: multum demissus homo,Hor. S. 1, 3, 57: sit apud vos modestiae locus, sit demissis hominibus perfugium, sit auxilium pudori,Cic. Mur. 40, 87.
* Rarely of external condition, humble, poor: qui demissi in obscuro vitam habent (opp. qui magno imperio praediti in excelso aetatem habent),Sall. C. 51, 12.
* Poet., and in Tacitus, of genealogical descent, descended, derived, sprung: ab alto Demissum genus Aenea,Hor. S. 2, 5, 63; so Verg. G. 3, 35: id. A. 1, 288; Stat. Th. 2, 613; Tac. A. 12, 58.—Sup. does not occur. —Adv.: dēmisse.
* Lit., low: hic alte, demissius ille volabat,Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 23.
* Trop., humbly, modestly, abjectly, meanly: non est ausus elate et ample loqui, cum humiliter demisseque sentiret,Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 24: suppliciter demisseque respondere,id. Fl. 10, 21: se tueri,id. Att. 2, 18, 3.— Sup.: haec quam potest demississime atque subjectissime exponit, * Caes. B. C. 1, 84 fin.

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