(v. n.prep.) : dis-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (
* Perf. sync. discesti, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3), v. n.
* (With the notion of dis predominating.)
* To part asunder, divide, separate (rare but class.; cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, desum, destituo, deficio).
* (With the notion of cedere predominating.) To depart from any place or person, to go away from, to leave (cf.: proficiscor, abeo; so most frequently in all periods and sorts of composition).
* To part from one's connection with one, i. e. to leave, forsake, desert (rare but class.).—With a or ab: uxor a Dolabella discessit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6: ab amicis in re publica peccantibus,Cic. Lael. 12, 42: ab amicis,id. ib. 20, 75: a nobis,Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 3: milites in itinere ab eo discedunt,id. ib. 1, 12, 2: a Perseo,Liv. 43, 6.
* Lit.
* In gen.: constr. with ab, ex, or absol., rarely with de—With ab: cum discesti ab hero, atque abisti ad forum, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3; so with abire,id. ib. 3, 3, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 2 fin.: quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant,Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 1: ab suis,id. ib. 5, 3, 6: ab exercitu,id. ib. 7, 9, 1; id. B. C. 1, 9, 3 et saep.: a senis latere numquam,Cic. Lael. 1, 1: a vallo,Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 3: ab loco,id. ib. 5, 34, 1: a litore,id. ib. 5, 8 fin. et saep.—With ex: non modo illum e Gallia non discessisse, sed ne a Mutina quidem recessisse,Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: ex contione,Caes. B. C. 2, 33, 2: e medio,Suet. Caes. 1: e patria,Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 85 et saep.—With de: de foro,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 147; 2, 4, 22, § 49; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79: de colloquio,Liv. 32, 40.—With abl. without a prep.: templo,Ov. M. 1, 381: finibus Ausoniae,id. Tr. 1, 3, 5: lecto,id. H. 1, 81: Tarracone,Caes. B. C. 2, 21, 5: Capua,Cic. Att. 7, 21.—Absol.: ille discessit, ego somno solutus sum,Cic. Rep. 6, 26 fin.; so,Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 3; id. B. C. 1, 22 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 8 et saep.—Pass. impers.: ne longius ab agmine discedi pateretur,Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 3: ab concilio disceditur,id. ib. 7, 2 fin.: de colloquio discessum,Liv. 32, 40; Caes. B. C. 3, 87 fin.; Tac. A. 6, 44 fin.
* Trop.
* In partic.
* In milit. lang., to march off, march away, decamp: discessit a Brundisio obsessionemque nostrorum omisit,Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.: ab Gergovia,id. B. G. 7, 43 fin.: a mari Dyrrhachioque,id. B. C. 3, 44, 1: ab Zama,Sall. J. 61 al.: ex ea parte vici,Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 1: ex hibernis,id. ib. 5, 28, 3: ex eo loco,id. B. C. 3, 30, 7; cf.: ex iis locis cum classe,id. ib. 3, 101 fin.: Tarracone,id. ib. 2, 21, 5 et saep.: dispersi ac dissipati discedunt,Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 3; so absol., id. ib. 5, 53 fin.; 6, 33, 4 et saep.; so milit.: discedere ab signis,to quit the standard, leave the order of battle,Caes. B. G. 5, 16, 1; id. B. C. 1, 44, 4; Liv. 25, 20: qui discedere et abire coeptabant,i. e. to break ranks and go away,Suet. Oth. 11; cf.: ab ordinibus signisque Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3: ab armis,to lay down one's arms,Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 8; id. B. C. 1, 9, 5; Sall. C. 34, 1; Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; Liv. 9, 14 al.
* Also in milit. lang., to get away, come away, come off in any manner from the battle (victorious, conquered, wounded, etc.); and sometimes to be translated simply to become, to be, etc.: superiores,Caes. B. C. 1, 47, 1; so, superior,Sall. C. 39, 4: victor,Caes. B. C. 3, 47, 6; cf.: victor ab hoste,Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 37: victus,to be conquered,Sall. C. 49, 2: graviter vulneratus,id. ib. 61, 7 et saep.: aequo proelio,Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 7; cf.: aequa manu,Sall. C. 39, 4: aequo Marte cum Volscis,Liv. 2, 40: sine detrimento,Caes. B. C. 3, 46, 6 et saep.—Pass. impers.: a proelio disceditur,Just. 6, 7, 12.
* Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq. into the judicial sphere, on account of its analogy to the former): ut spoliis Sexti Roscii hoc judicio ornati auctique discedant,Cic. Rosc. Am. 3 fin.: superiorem,id. Caecin. 1, 2; so, liberatus,Nep. Phoc. 2, 3: omnium judicio probatus,Cic. Brut. 64, 229: impunita (tanta injuria),Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30 et saep.: discessisses non male,Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 70; cf.: pulchre et probe et praeter spem,Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 58: aut cum summa gloria aut sine molestia,Cic. Att. 2, 21 fin.; cf.: a judicio capitis maximā gloriā,Nep. Epam. 8 fin.: ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam Neget daturum,Ter. And. 1, 1, 121; cf.: si possum discedere, ne causa optima in senatu pereat,Cic. Fam. 2, 16 fin.
* In gen., to depart, deviate, swerve from; to leave, forsake, give up: nihil a statu naturae, nihil a dignitate sapientis,Cic. Off. 1, 20, 67: a fide justitiaque,id. ib. 3, 20, 79: longe ab consuetudine mea et cautione ac diligentia,id. Font. 1, 2: a constantia atque a mente, atque a se ipse,id. Div. 2, 55, 114; cf.: a se,id. Brut. 79, 273; id. Fin. 5, 11, 33; 4, 5, 41; id. Tusc. 4, 6, 11: a recta conscientia, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 20: a sua sententia,Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 5: ab officio, id. B. G. 1, 40, 3: ab oppugnatione castrorum,id. B. C. 2, 31, 3 et saep.: a judiciisque causisque,Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144: a litteris,id. Fam. 9, 26: ab illa acerrima contentione,id. Or. 31: ab illa cavillatione,Quint. 12, 2, 14: a suscepta semel persuasione,id. 12, 2, 26 et saep.
* In partic.
* Pregn., to pass away, to vanish, to cease (very rarely): modo audivi, quartanam a te discessisse,had left you,Cic. Att. 8, 6: ex animo memoria alicujus,id. Rep. 6, 9: hostibus spes potiundi oppidi discessit (opp. studium propugnandi accessit), Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2: ubi hae sollicitudines discessere,Liv. 4, 52 fin.
* In alicujus sententiam, in polit. lang., to pass or go over to another's opinion, Sall. C. 55, 1; Liv. 3, 41; 28, 45; cf. the opp., in alia omnia,Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 3 (v. alius). In like manner: decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum SC., quo nisi paene in ipso urbis incendio ... numquam ante discessum est,which had never before been resorted to,Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3; so perh.: ex oratione Caesaris ... hanc in opinionem discessi, ut, etc.,Cic. Fam. 6, 14 fin.
* Ab aliquo, in Cicero's letters in the sense of to leave out of consideration, i. e. to except: cum a vobis meae salutis auctoribus discesserim, neminem esse, cujus officiis me tam esse devinctum confitear,if I except you, you excepted,Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 18: ut cum ab illo discesserint, me habeant proximum,id. ib. 6, 12, 2: amoris erga me, cum a fraterno amore domesticoque discessi, tibi primas defero,id. Att. 1, 17, 5.!*? Once in the part. perf.: custodibus discessis, Cael. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.

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