(verb) : dē-sĭlĭo, ĭlŭi (desului, Plaut. Rud. prol. 75:
* Desilivi,Col. 6, 24, 3: desilii,id. 8, 5, 14; Curt. 4, 12, 3 al.), ultum, 4, salio, to leap down.
* Prop. (class.). Constr. with abl. of the place whence, after de, ex, poet. and in later prose with ab or without a prep.: de navi in scapham,Plaut. Rud. prol. 75: de navibus,Caes. B. G. 4, 24, 2: de reda,Cic. Mil. 10, 29: de muro,Suet. Ner. 23: in terram e scapha,Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 84: ex navi,Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 5: ex essedis,id. ib. 4, 33: ex equis,to dismount, alight,id. ib. 4, 2, 3; for which ab equo,Verg. A. 11, 500; cf.: praeceps ab alto curru,Ov. M. 12, 129; with e curru,id. A. A. 1, 560: curru,Verg. A. 12, 355; so bijugis,id. ib. 10, 453: lecto,Hor. S. 1, 2, 130: altis turribus,id. Epod. 17, 70: saxo,Ov. M. 7, 378: equo,Curt. 5, 6, 14; 6, 5, 26; Tac. A. 15, 28; Just. 15, 3, 13; cf. Tac. A. 1, 25.—Merely designating the terminus ad quem, with in or acc.: in undas,Ov. M. 3, 681: in medias undas,id. F. 2, 111: in aquas,id. ib. 2, 588: in latices, id. M. 4, 353: in mare,Suet. Caes. 64: in rogos medios,Ov. A. A. 3, 22: in mortem,Sen. Ep. 76, 22 et saep.: ad pedes,to dismount,Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 2: ad calciandas mulas,Suet. Vesp. 23.—Absol.: desilite commilitones,Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 3; Ov. M. 10, 722 al.
* Transf. of inanimate subjects: levis crepante lympha desilit pede,Hor. Epod. 16, 48; cf. id. Od. 3, 13, 16; Ov. F. 4, 428: fulminaque aetheria desiluisse domo,Prop. 2, 16, 50 (3, 8, 50 M.).—*
* Trop.: nec desilies imitator in artum, unde, etc.,throw thyself into difficulties,Hor. A. P. 134.

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