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(verb) : ex-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (
* Subj. perf. sync. excessis, Ter. And. 4, 4, 21), and a.
* Neut., to go out, go forth or away, to depart, retire, withdraw (freq. and class.; cf.: discedo, deficio, destituo, desero, linquo, relinquo).
* Lit.
* Act. (post-Aug.).
* Trop.
* To go beyond, overstep, rise above, overtop a certain boundary.—Of personal subjects very rarely: alter in Pontum, alter usque Aegyptum excessit,Just. 1, 1, 6.—More freq. of inanimate subjects: ut nulla (pars) excederet extra,Cic. Univ. 5; Cels. 8, 9 fin.; cf. with eminere,id. 8, 25 fin.: montes et excedentia in nubes juga,Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 3.
* To depart from life, to decease, to die (cf. decedo): sic ille cum undequadraginta annos regnavisset, excessit e vita,Cic. Rep. 2, 14 fin.; so, e vita,id. Fin. 3, 18, 60; id. Brut. 20 fin.; id. Lael. 3 fin.; id. Off. 1, 43, 153: vitā,id. Tusc. 1, 13, 29; id. Brut. 75, 262; id. N. D. 3, 16, 41; Val. Max. 2, 6, 8; 5, 5, 3; Curt. 3, 1, 21; 9, 6, 6; Tac. H. 4, 75: e medio,Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74 Ruhnk.; and simply excedere (postAug.; but v. decedo excessus, I.),Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; Tac. A. 1, 5 fin.; 1, 33; Suet. Aug. 5; id. Claud. 45; id. Vesp. 2; id. Tit. 11; Val. Fl. 1, 826; Curt. 10, 5, 2; Sen. Ep. 77, 10.
* In gen. (very rarely): cum animus Eudemi e corpore excesserit,Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24; 1, 32, 78; id. Lael. 4, 13 al.: corpore excedere,id. Div. 1, 30, 63: ex pristina bellandi consuetudine, Auct. B. Afr. 73: palmā, to recede from victory, to yield the victory (= decedere alicui de victoria), Verg. A. 5, 380.—Far more freq.
* In partic.
* (Acc. to A. 2. a.) To go beyond a certain boundary or a certain measure, to advance, proceed, to transgress, digress (= procedere, progredi): mihi aetas ex magisterio tuo: Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 40: is postquam excessit ex ephebis,Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 (quoted in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327); cf.: ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias,Cic. Arch. 3: ad patres etiam et ad publicam querimoniam excessit res,Liv. 25, 1; cf. Val. Max. 5, 6, 4: haec eo anno in Africa gesta. Insequentia excedunt in eum annum, quo, etc.,Liv. 30, 26; cf. id. 21, 15: paululum ad enarrandum, etc.,to digress,Liv. 29, 29, 5; cf.: in fabellam,Sen. Ep. 77: in aliquid,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 44 fin.: res parva dictu, sed quae studiis in magnum certamen excesserit,Liv. 34, 1; cf. id. 33, 35 fin.; 8, 33; cf. id. 3, 41: eo laudis excedere, quo, etc.,to attain that height of fame,Tac. Agr. 42 fin.: tantum illa clades novitate et magnitudine excessit, i. e. exceeded, went beyond = eminuit, Tac. A. 2, 24.
* (Acc. to A. 2. b.) To depart, disappear: cura ex corde excessit,Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12: cum cupiditatum dominatus excessit,Cic. Par. 5, 3, 40: jam e memoria excessit, quo tempore? etc.,Liv. 26, 13; for which, memoriā,id. 7, 32 fin.: ubi reverentia excessit animis,Curt. 8, 8.— Poet.: Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque?i. e. have they slipped from your memory?Sil. 15, 35.
* Lit., to depart from, to leave a place: urbem,Liv. 2, 37, 8; 1, 29, 6; 3, 57, 10; 23, 1: curiam,id. 45, 20; cf. pass. impers.: Crotonem excessum est,id. 24; 3 fin.
* Transf., to go beyond, surpass, exceed a certain limit, to overtop, tower above (cf. above, I. A. 2. a., and B. 2. a.): nubes excedit Olympus,Luc. 2, 271: statura, quae justam excederet,Suet. Tib. 68: summam octoginta milium,Liv. 39, 5; so of numbers, very freq.,Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22; 13, 3, 4, § 20; Quint. 9, 4, 79; Tac. A. 1, 14; Suet. Aug. 77 al.; cf. also of age,Col. 6, 21: triennium vitae,Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166: annum aetatis centesimum,id. 25, 2, 5, § 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4; 3, 7, 9; Suet. Gramm. 7; of measure: laborum periculorumque modum,Vell. 2, 122 fin.; so, modum,Liv. 26, 19; 28, 25; Quint. 3, 6, 62; 8, 3, 48 al.: eloquentia aut aequavit praestantissimorum gloriam aut excessit,Suet. Caes. 55; cf.: praeturae gradum,id. Oth. 1: principum fastigium,id. Calig. 22: fastigium equestre,Tac. A. 4, 40: excedente humanam fidem temeritate,Vell. 2, 51, 3; so, fidem,Plin. 7, 21, 21, § 85; Ov. M. 7, 166: excessisse Priscum inmanitate et saevitia crimina, quibus, etc.,Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 2: nemine tantum ceteros excedente, ut ei aliquis se summitteret,Just. 13, 2.—With simple acc.: decretum, ne vasa auro solida ministrandis cibis fierent, etc. ... Excessit Fronto ac postulavit modum argento,went beyond the proposal,Tac. A. 2, 33 (cf.: egredi relationem,id. ib. 2, 38).—Pass.: duo enim multitudo, unione jam excessā,Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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