Descensio, onis, f. g. Verbale. Idem. Plin. Descensiones facere. Liu.To descend or goe downe.Classes quibus descensiones in agros maritimos factæ erant.Liu.By which they descended, &c.Prius qum in continentem descensiones facerent.Liu.Before they landed or tooke lande, or before they went out of their ships to lande.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dēscensĭo, ōnis, f. [descendo] (postAug.), a going down, descending. I. Prop.: balinearum,
into the bath
, Plin. 20, 17, 69, 178: Tiberina,
the sail down the Tiber
, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 70: grando in descensione saltus,
upon the thickets
, Vulg. Isa. 32, 19.—Hence, II.Meton., the bath itself, Gr. e)mba/seis, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 26.