Desilio, désilis, pen. cor. desilíui, & desilij, vel desilui, desultum desilîre. Plin. iun.To leape downe.Desilire ad pedes. Cæs. To light on foote.Lecto desilire. Hor. Desilire ab equo. Vir. To leape or light from his horse.Desilire de nauibus, de rheda. Cæs. To leape out of.Desilire ex æquo.Liu.Desilire in nauem.Plaut.Perniciter desilire.Liu. Aqua defiliens ex alto. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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, v. n. [salio], to leap down. I. 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.—B.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.).— II.Trop.: nec desilies imitator in artum, unde, etc.,