To depart: to go away. vt, Discedere Roma. Cice. Discedere cubitum. Cic. To go away to bed. A patria discedere. Ouid. Ab aliquo discedere. Cice. Discedere ad vrbem. Virg. Longè discedit. Ouid. Procul hinc discedere. Ouid. To go farre hence. Procul discessit in agros. Val. Vlac. Tardè discedere. Ouid. Non discedere ab aliquo. Cicer. Alway to accompany one to be alway with him. Discedere ab amicis. Cic. To leaue the friendship of men. Discedere ab armis. Cæs. To leaue off warre. In auras discedere. Lucret. To vanish into the aire. Discedere consuetudine alicuius populi. Cic. To leaue the custome and maner of: to doe against the custome. E conspectu discedere. Cic. To go out of sight. A contentione discedere. Cic. Discedere defendendis hominibus & subleuandis. Cic. To cease to defende and helpe. Non discedere digitum re aliqua. Cic. Sub. latum. Not to go a fingers breadth from a thing. In duas factiones ciuitas dicessit. Tacit. The citie was diuided into two partes. A fide iustitiáque discedere. Cic. To doe against. Ab aliquo dicendi genere discedere. Cic. Asperata alicuius rei gloria discedere. Cic. To leese the hope of glorie that he looked for. A iudicijs causisq; discedere. Cic. Discedere iure, Cic. To doe against right and lawe. Vno verbo discedere libro. Cicer. To speake one worde otherwise than is in his booke. Nunquam ex animo meo discedit illius viri memoria. Cic. I neuer forgot: I alway remember, &c. A mente atque se discedere. Cic. To forget himselfe: to be out of his wit. Discessit mos. Plin. That maner or vse is left. Discedamus nobis. Ci. Let vs cease to speake of our selues. Discedere ab officio. Cic. To do contrarie to reason and honestie. Discedere in aliquam opinionem. Dicer. To condiscende to an opinion. Discedere in omnia alia, pro Dissentire. Cic. To agree to al things but that: not to condiscende vnto that: to bee of contrarie opinion. Discedere in diuersa. To be of diuers and sundrie opinions. Discedunt in duas partes. Salust. They go into two partes. Negat vnquam se te pedem discessisse. Cic. He saith he neuer went a foote from thee. De prouincia discedere. Cic. To depart out. Audiui quartanam te discessisse. Cic. I heard the quartane had left thee. A re discedere. Cic. To go from the purpose. Discedere vel de sententia. Cæsar. Cic. To change his opinion. A sese discedere. Cic. To go out of his wittes. Signis discedere haud licitum. Sil. It is not lawfull for a sonldiour to depart from his ensigne. Discedere superiorem. Cic. To depart victor or conquerour. Discedere inferiorem. Cic. To go away vanquished or ouercome. A vita discedere. Cic. To die: to depart out of life. Ex vita discedere. Cic. Idem. Discedit vsus fructus persona. Modest. Hee leeseth the profite & commoditie. Vxor marito discedit. Cælius Ciceroni. Quum discessi te, nemo mihi illo charior. Cicer. Excepte thee, or next after thee I loue no man better than him. Amoris verò erga te mei, quum fraterno amore, domesticóque discessi, tibi primas defero. Cicero. Nexre after my brother, and nigh kinred, I lone you chiefe of all men.

I. (With the notion of dis predominating.)

A. To part asunder, divide, separate (rare but class.; cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, desum, destituo, deficio).

1. Lit.: cum terra discessisset magnis quibusdam imbribus, Cic. Off. 3, 9: caelum, opens, id. Div. 1, 43, 97; 1, 44, 99, i. e. clears off, Verg. A. 9, 20 (this last is quoted in Sen. Q. N. 7, 20): sulcus vomere, Luc. 6, 382: VT SODALITATES DECVRIATIQVE DISCEDERENT, SC. ap. Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5; cf.: cum discedere populum jussissent tribuni, Liv. 3, 11: populus ex contione, Sall. J. 34 fin.: armati in latitudinem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 99, 7: in duas partes, Sall. J. 13, 1: in partes, Tac. A. 1, 49; cf.: in manipulos, id. ib. 1, 34: fumus in auras, Lucr. 3, 436: ad semina rerum, id. 2, 833: palus multos discessit in amnes, Luc. 6, 360: citius paterer caput hoc discedere collo, Prop. 2, 6, 7.—

2. Trop.: divisio in tres partes, Quint. 12, 10, 58: haec in duo genera, id. 3, 6, 86.—

B. To part from one's connection with one, i. e. to leave, forsake, desert (rare but class.).—With a or ab: uxor a Dolabella discessit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6: ab amicis in re publica peccantibus, Cic. Lael. 12, 42: ab amicis, id. ib. 20, 75: a nobis, Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 3: milites in itinere ab eo discedunt, id. ib. 1, 12, 2: a Perseo, Liv. 43, 6.

II. (With the notion of cedere predominating.) To depart from any place or person, to go away from, to leave (cf.: proficiscor, abeo; so most frequently in all periods and sorts of composition).

A. Lit.

1. In gen.: constr. with ab, ex, or absol., rarely with de—With ab: cum discesti ab hero, atque abisti ad forum, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 3; so with abire, id. ib. 3, 3, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 2 fin.: quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant, Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 1: ab suis, id. ib. 5, 3, 6: ab exercitu, id. ib. 7, 9, 1; id. B. C. 1, 9, 3 et saep.: a senis latere numquam, Cic. Lael. 1, 1: a vallo, Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 3: ab loco, id. ib. 5, 34, 1: a litore, id. ib. 5, 8 fin. et saep.—With ex: non modo illum e Gallia non discessisse, sed ne a Mutina quidem recessisse, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: ex contione, Caes. B. C. 2, 33, 2: e medio, Suet. Caes. 1: e patria, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 85 et saep.—With de: de foro, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, 147; 2, 4, 22, 49; id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79: de colloquio, Liv. 32, 40.—With abl. without a prep.: templo, Ov. M. 1, 381: finibus Ausoniae, id. Tr. 1, 3, 5: lecto, id. H. 1, 81: Tarracone, Caes. B. C. 2, 21, 5: Capua, Cic. Att. 7, 21.—Absol.: ille discessit, ego somno solutus sum, Cic. Rep. 6, 26 fin.; so, Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 3; id. B. C. 1, 22 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 8 et saep.—Pass. impers.: ne longius ab agmine discedi pateretur, Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 3: ab concilio disceditur, id. ib. 7, 2 fin.: de colloquio discessum, Liv. 32, 40; Caes. B. C. 3, 87 fin.; Tac. A. 6, 44 fin.—

b. Designating the term. ad quem, to go away to any place: in silvas, Caes. B. G. 5, 39, 2: ex fuga in civitates, id. ib. 7, 88 fin.: in castra, id. B. C. 1, 83, 3: in proximos colles, Sall. J. 54 fin.: in loca occulta, id. ib. 56, 3: ad urbem, Verg. A. 12, 184 et saep.: Capreas, Tac. A. 6, 20: ex castris domum, Caes. B. G. 5, 7, 5; cf. simply domum, id. B. C. 1, 13, 3; 3, 87, 3: domos suas, Nep. Them. 4, 2 al.: cubitum, Cic. Rep. 6, 10.—

2. In partic.

a. In milit. lang., to march off, march away, decamp: discessit a Brundisio obsessionemque nostrorum omisit, Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.: ab Gergovia, id. B. G. 7, 43 fin.: a mari Dyrrhachioque, id. B. C. 3, 44, 1: ab Zama, Sall. J. 61 al.: ex ea parte vici, Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 1: ex hibernis, id. ib. 5, 28, 3: ex eo loco, id. B. C. 3, 30, 7; cf.: ex iis locis cum classe, id. ib. 3, 101 fin.: Tarracone, id. ib. 2, 21, 5 et saep.: dispersi ac dissipati discedunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 58, 3; so absol., id. ib. 5, 53 fin.; 6, 33, 4 et saep.; so milit.: discedere ab signis, to quit the standard, leave the order of battle, Caes. B. G. 5, 16, 1; id. B. C. 1, 44, 4; Liv. 25, 20: qui discedere et abire cœptabant, i. e. to break ranks and go away, Suet. Oth. 11; cf.: ab ordinibus signisque Front. Strat. 1, 5, 3: ab armis, to lay down one's arms, Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 8; id. B. C. 1, 9, 5; Sall. C. 34, 1; Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; Liv. 9, 14 al.—

b. Also in milit. lang., to get away, come away, come off in any manner from the battle (victorious, conquered, wounded, etc.); and sometimes to be translated simply to become, to be, etc.: superiores, Caes. B. C. 1, 47, 1; so, superior, Sall. C. 39, 4: victor, Caes. B. C. 3, 47, 6; cf.: victor ab hoste, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 37: victus, to be conquered, Sall. C. 49, 2: graviter vulneratus, id. ib. 61, 7 et saep.: aequo proelio, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 7; cf.: aequa manu, Sall. C. 39, 4: aequo Marte cum Volscis, Liv. 2, 40: sine detrimento, Caes. B. C. 3, 46, 6 et saep.—Pass. impers.: a proelio disceditur, Just. 6, 7, 12.—

(b). Transf. beyond the milit. sphere (freq. into the judicial sphere, on account of its analogy to the former): ut spoliis Sexti Roscii hoc judicio ornati auctique discedant, Cic. Rosc. Am. 3 fin.: superiorem, id. Caecin. 1, 2; so, liberatus, Nep. Phoc. 2, 3: omnium judicio probatus, Cic. Brut. 64, 229: impunita (tanta injuria), id. Verr. 2, 4, 30 et saep.: discessisses non male, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 70; cf.: pulchre et probe et praeter spem, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 58: aut cum summa gloria aut sine molestia, Cic. Att. 2, 21 fin.; cf.: a judicio capitis maximā gloriā, Nep. Epam. 8 fin.: ita tum discedo ab illo, ut qui se filiam Neget daturum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 121; cf.: si possum discedere, ne causa optima in senatu pereat, Cic. Fam. 2, 16 fin.

B. Trop.

1. In gen., to depart, deviate, swerve from; to leave, forsake, give up: nihil a statu naturae, nihil a dignitate sapientis, Cic. Off. 1, 20, 67: a fide justitiaque, id. ib. 3, 20, 79: longe ab consuetudine mea et cautione ac diligentia, id. Font. 1, 2: a constantia atque a mente, atque a se ipse, id. Div. 2, 55, 114; cf.: a se, id. Brut. 79, 273; id. Fin. 5, 11, 33; 4, 5, 41; id. Tusc. 4, 6, 11: a recta conscientia, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 20: a sua sententia, Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 5: ab officio, id. B. G. 1, 40, 3: ab oppugnatione castrorum, id. B. C. 2, 31, 3 et saep.: a judiciisque causisque, Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144: a litteris, id. Fam. 9, 26: ab illa acerrima contentione, id. Or. 31: ab illa cavillatione, Quint. 12, 2, 14: a suscepta semel persuasione, id. 12, 2, 26 et saep.—

2. In partic.

a. Pregn., to pass away, to vanish, to cease (very rarely): modo audivi, quartanam a te discessisse, had left you, Cic. Att. 8, 6: ex animo memoria alicujus, id. Rep. 6, 9: hostibus spes potiundi oppidi discessit (opp. studium propugnandi accessit), Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2: ubi hae sollicitudines discessere, Liv. 4, 52 fin.—

b. In alicujus sententiam, in polit. lang., to pass or go over to another's opinion, Sall. C. 55, 1; Liv. 3, 41; 28, 45; cf. the opp., in alia omnia, Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 3 (v. alius). In like manner: decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum SC., quo nisi paene in ipso urbis incendio ... numquam ante discessum est, which had never before been resorted to, Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3; so perh.: ex oratione Caesaris ... hanc in opinionem discessi, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 6, 14 fin.—

c. Ab aliquo, in Cicero's letters in the sense of to leave out of consideration, i. e. to except: cum a vobis meae salutis auctoribus discesserim, neminem esse, cujus officiis me tam esse devinctum confitear, if I except you, you excepted, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 18: ut cum ab illo discesserint, me habeant proximum, id. ib. 6, 12, 2: amoris erga me, cum a fraterno amore domesticoque discessi, tibi primas defero, id. Att. 1, 17, 5.!*? Once in the part. perf.: custodibus discessis, Cael. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.