Decedo, decêdis, pe. pro. decéssi, decessum, decédere. Cicero. To depart from: to giue place to: to dy: to minish.Decedamus hinc.Plaut.Let vs depart hence.Qui ex agris. ex Cn. Pompeij decreto decedere sunt coacti. Cic.Which constrained to forsake and depart from.Decedere alicui.Plaut.To giue place to one.Decedere alicui, pro Aduersari aliquem. Cæs. To disdaine to meete one in the way.De suis bonis decedere. Ci. To giue ouer & forsake hys owne goods.De curriculo vitæ decedere.Cic.A superioribus decretis decedere.Cicer.To breake decrees or ordinances before time made.Decedere fide.Liu.To goe from his promise: to forsake ones friendship and obedience.Furori aliquorum decedere.Cic.To giue place to the rage & fury of certaine persons.Decedere instituto suo. L. To leaue his old maner or custome: to doe otherwise than he was wont.Decedere itinere, per metaphoram. Plin. iu. To digresse from his purpose: to turne out of the way.Decedere de suo iure.Cic.To remit and yeeld somewhat of his owne right.Decedere iure suo. Idem. Liu.Recto limite decedit.Stat. Loco decedere. Tac. Decedere de suo more.Cic.To change his old maner: to doe otherwise then he hath beene wont.Seræ meminit decedere nocti. Virgi. To giue place to night: at night to depart.Decedere officio, vel de officio. Ci. To do cõtrary to that honesty and reason requireth.Ab officio decedere.Liu. Idem. Possessione decedere.Plin. iun.To leaue possession.De possessione decedere.Cic. Idem. Prouincia decedere.Cic.Decedere de prouincia, & ex prouincia.Cic.Regnis decedere, pro priuari regno vel imperio. Sil. Sententia decedere.Tacit.De sententia decedere. Cice. To change his opinion: to goe from his opinion.Decedere via.Plaut. Suet. To giue one the way for courtesie.Decessit via errabundus. Sueton. He went wandring oute of the way. De vita decedere. Cic.To die. Decedet hæc ira.Terent.This anger will away.Prius qum ea cura decederet patribus. Li. Before this care was out of the Senatours heades.Nihil decedet de summa. Terentius. No parte of the summe shall bee diminished.Decedit febris. Cels. The fitte of the ague ceaseth.Decedit hoc opibus.Liui.This muche of their power is deminished.Nihil decedit periculi de causa eius.Cic.The daunger shall be neuerthelesse in his cause.Decedunt vires.Liu.His power decayeth or minisheth.
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dē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (inf. sync. decesse, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32; Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; Neue Formenl. 2, 536. The part. perf. decessus perh. only Rutil. Nam. 1, 313), v. n., to go away, depart, withdraw. (For syn. cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, destituo, deficio, discedo, excedo. Often opp. to accedo, maneo; freq. and class.)—Constr. absol. with de, ex, or merely the abl.; rarely with ab.I.Lit.A. In gen.: decedamus, Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 74: de altera parte (agri) decedere, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10: decedit ex Gallia Romam Naevius, Cic. Quint. 4, 16: e pastu, Verg. G. 1, 381; cf.: e pastu decedere campis, id. ib. 4, 186: ex aequore domum, id. ib. 2, 205; Italiā, Sall. J. 28, 2: Numidiā, id. ib. 38, 9: Africā, id. ib. 20, 1; 23, 1: pugnā, Liv. 34, 47: praesidio, id. 4, 29 (cf.: de praesidio, Cic. de Sen. 20, 73): quae naves paullulum suo cursu decesserint, i. e.
had gone out of their course
, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 3; so, cum luminibus exstinctis decessisset viā,
had gone out of the way
, Suet. Caes. 31: pantherae constituisse dicuntur in Cariam ex nostra provincia decedere, Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2.B. Esp. 1. t. t. a. In milit. lang., to retire, withdraw from a former position: qui nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat ex his regionibus, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19; so,
absol
., id. ib. 1, 44fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 50: de colle, Caes. B. C. 1, 71, 3: de vallo, id. B. G. 5, 43, 4: inde, id. B. C. 1, 71 fin.: loco superiore, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9; so with abl., Auct. B. Alex. 34; 35 (twice); 70 al.— b. In official lang.: de provincia, ex provincia, provinciā, or absol. (cf. Cic. Planc. 26, 65), to retire from the province on the expiration of a term of office: de provincia decessit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20; so, id. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Fam. 2, 15 (twice); Liv. 29, 19 Drak.: decedens ex Syria, Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61; so, e Cilicia, id. Brut. 1: ex Africa, Nep. Cato, 1, 4: ex Asia, id. Att. 4, 1: ex ea provincia, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 Zumpt N. cr.: ut decedens Considius provinciā, Cic. Lig. 1, 2; Liv. 39, 3; 41, 10: te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse, Cic. Fam. 3, 6; so absol., id. Planc. 26, 65 al.: Albinus Romam decessit, Sall. J. 36 fin.; cf.: Romam ad triumphum, Liv. 8, 13; 9, 16. —Rarely with a: cui cum respondissem, me a provincia decedere: etiam mehercule, inquit, ut opinor, ex Africa, Cic. Planc. 26 fin.2. Decedere de viā; also viā, in viā alicui, alicui, or absol., to get out of the way, to give place, make way for one (as a mark of respect or of abhorrence): concedite atque abscedite omnes: de via decedite, Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 1; cf.: decedam ego illi de via, de semita, id. Trin. 2, 4, 80 (Cic. Clu. 59. 163; cf. II. B infra); cf.: qui fecit servo currenti in viā decesse populum, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32: censorem L. Plancum via sibi decedere aedilis coegit, Suet. Ner. 4; cf. id. Tib. 31: sanctis divis, Catul. 62, 268: nocti, Verg. Ec. 8, 88: peritis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216 (cf.: cedere nocti, Liv. 3, 60, 7).—Also, to get out of the way of, avoid: decedere canibus de via, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.: hi numero impiorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum defugiunt, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 7.—By zeugma, in the pass.: salutari, appeti, decedi, assurgi, deduci, reduci, etc., Cic. de Sen. 18, 63.3. Pregn., to depart, disappear (cf.: cedo, concedo). a. Of living beings, to decease, to die: si eos, qui jam de vita decesserunt, Cic. Rab. Perd. 11: vitā, Dig. 7, 1, 57, 1; Vulg. 2 Mac. 6, 31; but commonly absol.: pater nobis decessit a. d. VIII. Kal. Dec., id. Att. 1, 6: cum paterfamiliae decessit, Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 3; Nep. Arist. 3, 2, and 3; id. Cim. 1; id. Ages. 8, 6; Liv. 1, 34; 9, 17; Quint. 3, 6, 96 et saep.: cruditate contracta, id. 7, 3, 33: morbo aquae intercutis, Suet. Ner. 5 fin.: paralysi, id. Vit. 3: ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte decedere, Nep. Timol. 1, 6.—b. Of inanimate things, to depart, go off; to abate, subside, cease: corpore febres, Lucr. 2, 34: febres, Nep. Att. 22, 3; Cels. 3, 3; cf.: quartana, Cic. Att. 7, 2 (opp. accedere): decessisse inde aquam,
run off, fallen
, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; cf.: decedere aestum, id. 26, 45; 9, 26 al.: de summa nihil decedet,
to be wanting, to fail
, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 30; Cic. Clu. 60, 167; cf.: quicquid libertati plebis caveretur, id suis decedere opibus credebant, Liv. 3, 55: decedet jam ira haec, etsi merito iratus est, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55 (for which ib. 5, 2, 15: cito ab eo haec ira abscedet): postquam invidia decesserat, Sall. J. 88, 1; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 16 al.: priusquam ea cura decederet patribus, Liv. 9, 29; so with dat., id. 2, 31; 23, 26; Tac. A. 15, 20; 44.—Poet.: incipit et longo Scyros decedere ponto, i. e.
seems to flee before them
, Stat. Ach. 2, 308.—In the Aug. poets sometimes of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set: et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras, Verg. E. 2, 67; so id. G. 1, 222; Ov. M. 4, 91; hence also of the day, to depart: te veniente die, te decedente canebat, Verg. G. 4, 466; also of the moon,
to wane
, Gell. 20, 8, 7.II.Trop.A. De possessione, jure, sententia, fide, etc. (and since the Aug. per. with abl. alone; the reading ex jure suo, Liv. 3, 33, 10, is very doubtful), to depart from; to give up, resign, forego; to yield, to swerve from one's possession, station, duty, right, opinion, faith, etc. (a). With de: cogere aliquem de suis bonis decedere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17 fin.; cf.: de hypothecis, id. Fam. 13, 56, 2; and de possessione, id. Agr. 2, 26; de suo jure, id. Rosc. Am. 27; id. Att. 16, 2: qui de civitate decedere quam de sententia maluit, id. Balb. 5: de officio ac dignitate, id. Verr. 1, 10: de foro decedere,
to retire from public life
, Nep. Att. 10, 2: de scena,
to retire from the stage
, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf. impers.: de officio decessum, Liv. 8, 25 fin.—(b). With abl. alone (so usually in Liv.): jure suo, Liv. 3, 33 fin.: sententiā, Tac. A. 14, 49: instituto vestro, Liv. 37, 54: officio (opp. in fide atque officio pristino fore), id. 27, 10; 36, 22: fide, id. 31, 5 fin.; 34, 11; 45, 19 al.: poema ... si paulum summo decessit, vergit ad imum, Hor. A. P. 378.—(g). Very rarely with ab: cum (senatus) nihil a superioribus continuorum annorum decretis decesserit, Cic. Fl. 12.—(d).Absol.: si quos equites decedentis nactus sum, supplicio adfeci, Asin. Pol. ap. C. Fam. 10, 32, 5.B. De via, to depart, deviate from the right way: se nulla cupiditate inductum de via decessisse, Cic. Cael. 16, 38: moleste ferre se de via decessisse, id. Clu. 59, 163; so, viā dicendi, Quint. 4, 5, 3.C. (acc. to no. I. B. 2) To give way, yield to another (i. e. to his will or superior advantages—very rare): vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213: ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt,
are not inferior
, id. Od. 2, 6, 15.D. (poet.) To avoid, shun, escape from (cf. I. B. 2 supra): nec serae meminit decedere nocti, to avoid the late night, i. e. the coldness of night, Varius ap. Macr. S. 6, 2, 20; Verg. Ecl. 8, 88; id. G. 3, 467: calori, id. ib. 4, 23.E.To fall short of, degenerate from: de generis nobilitate, Pall. 3, 25, 2: a rebus gestis ejus et gloriae splendore, Justin. 6, 3, 8.