decedo
dē-cēdō
cessī
(inf. dēcēsse, T.),
cessus, ere, to go away, depart, withdraw, retire: de
alterā parte (agri), Cs.: de praesidio: ex
Galliā Romam: e pastu decedere campis, V.: Africā, S.: praesidio, L.:
naves suo cursu, i. e. went out of their course,
Cs.—To retire, withdraw, retreat, fall back, abandon a position: nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat, Cs.: inde, Cs.: Italiā. — Of
a provincial magistrate, to retire, surrender (office): de provinciā decessit:
ex Syriā: provinciā: te decessurum fuisse: Romam, S.: Romam ad triumphum, L.—To give place, make way,
retire, yield: servo in viā Decesse populum, T.:
serae nocti, i. e. at the approach of, V.: calori, to escape from, V.: canibus de
viā, avoid: his omnes decedunt,
avoid, Cs. —Fig., to depart, disappear, die: de
vitā: ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte, N.: cum pater familiae decessit, Cs.: in
paupertate, N.— To depart, go off, abate, subside, cease:
febres, N.: nuntiatum est aestum
decedere, L.: De summā nihil
decedet, be wanting, T.: de causā periculi nihil:
quaestioni materia decessit, L.: Decedet iam ira
haec, T.: neque Decedit aeratā triremi
cura, H.: postquam invidia decesserat,
S.—Poet.: sol decedens, setting, V.: lux, tarde decedere
visa, O.: decedentia Tempora, passing
seasons, H.—To depart from, give up, resign, forego, yield, swerve: de suis bonis: de meo iure: de sententiā: de foro, to
retire from public life, N.: de scenā: de officio
decessum, L.: iure suo, L.: poema si paulum summo decessit, has fallen short of, H.: cum (senatus) nihil a decretis decesserit.—To depart,
deviate: de viā, i. e. from right: instituto suo, L.: fide,
L.— To give way, yield: decede peritis, be guided
by, H.: ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt, are not inferior,
H.