Absisto, absistis, âbstiti, pen. corr. absistere. To departe froma place: to be farre of: to abstaine: to cease: to leaue.Luco absistire.Virg.Goe away from: approch not: or come not nye to it.Bello absistere. Tac. Liu.To leaue of, or cease from, &c.Furore absistere.Liu.Incœpto. Liu.Imperio. Liu.Oppugnatione, vel Obsidione.Liu.To rayse his siege and depart. Pugna. Liu.To fight no more. Ab sole nunquam abfistens partibus sex atq; quadraginta longius. Plin Neuer departing further from the sunns. Obsidendo absistere.Liu. hoc est, ab obsidione. Nec prius absistir, qum, &c. Virgil. And he leaueth, or ceseth not, &c.Nec absistat id facere, &c. Col. And let him not cease, &c. Absistitur, pen. corr. Impersonale. Liu.Si non absisteietur bello.If they did not cease from warre.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ab-sisto, stĭti, no sup., 3, v. n. (like all the compounds of the simple active verb, used only in a neutr. signif.), to withdraw or depart from, to go away; constr. absol., with ab, or the simple abl. (not in Cic.). I.Lit.: quae me hic reliquit atque abstitit,
who has left me behind here
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and gone off
, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 32: ab signis, Caes. B. G. 5, 17; v. Gron. ad Liv. 27, 45.—absol.: miles abstitit,
went away
, Tac. 2, 31: ab ore scintillae absistunt,
burst forth
, Verg. A. 12, 101: limine, id. ib. 7, 610: luco, id. ib. 6, 259. —II.Trop. with abl. (of subst. or gerund.) or the inf., to desist from an act, purpose, etc., to cease, to leave off (so, perh., first in the Aug. period, for the more common desisto): obsidione, Liv. 9, 15 Drak.: bello, Hor. S. 1, 3, 104: continuando magistratu, Liv. 9, 34: sequendo, id. 29, 33: ingratis benefacere, id. 36, 35: moveri, Verg. A. 6, 399: absiste viribus indubitare tuis,