To send diuers persons sundry wases: to licÊce, or giue leaue to depart. To leaue: to cease. To let passe: to suffer: to humble. To let downe: to forgiue. Dimittere boues in pascua. Col. To send or put to pasture. Literas in alias vrbes. Liu. To send letters. Pueros circumamicos. Cic. To send seruants about to. Dimittere folia dicitur arbor, quum decidunt. Plin. To let fal the leaues. Dimittere. Liu. To send into sundry partes. Per omnes ciuitates cohortes dimisit. Liu. Dimittere. Liu. To let downe. Dimitterese in valles, vel agmÊ in æquum. Ce. To go doune into. Dimittere. Cic. To giue leaue to depart. Dimittere & Retinere, contraria. Cic. Aequos & placatos aliquos dimittere. Cic. To dimisse. Aliquem cum bona gratia dimittere. Cic. Aliquem cum pace dimittere, Vide PAX. Dimittere. Cic. Dimissi populo fasces. Tibul. Submitted to the people. Aculeum dimittere, Vide ACVLEVS. Amicitias. Cic. To leaue of friendship. Dimittit animum in artes ignotas. Ou. He applieth his mind to an vnknowne art. Dimittere se ad aurem alicuius. Cicer. To stop and speake in ones eare. Bellum dimittere. Stat. Cœtum. Cic. Comitia. Cic. To dimisse. Cur mea dicta negat dutas dimittere in aures? Vir. Why wil he not heare my wordes? Discedentem non sine magno dolore dimittere. Cic. Dimittere se in comparationem alterius. Sue. To compare himselfe with another. Dimittere è complexu suo. Cic. To let goe out of his armes. Concilium dimittere. Cic. To dimisse or dissolue. Dimittere & ablegare cõcilium. C. To dimisse & send away. Dimittere ex concilio. Cæs. To dimisse from the councell. Contumeliosè dimittere. Cicer. To send away with reproch. Creditores dimittere. Plin. iun. To pay and content his creditoures. Curam. Cic. Curam ex animo. Liu. To forget care & thinke no more of it. Custodiam capitis alicuius. Cic. Debitorem. Vlp. To giue a debtour his quittance. Dimittere in discrimen. Liui. To suffer to come in daunger. Dimittit eum dolor. Cels. Paine or sorrow leaueth him. Dimittere facultatem rei gerendæ. Cæs. To loose or let slip % oportunitie to doe a thing. Dimittit febris. Cels. The ague leaueth him. Dimittere filium de potestate. Caius. De grauitate aliquid, aut multum de cupiditare dimittere, Cic. To leaue some part of. Dimittere iram suam Reipub. Cæs. For the common weales sake to leaue of his anger. Ius suum retinere & dimittere, contraria. Cic. In alicuius casus lachrymas dimittere. Ouid. To weepe for ones aduersitie. Libertatem non dimittere. Cic. Not to seese liberty. Dimittere è manibus. Cæsar. To lette one escape out of hys handes. E manibus non dimittere aliquem authorem. Cic. Dimittere matrimonium. Suet. To be diuorsed. Dimissa è matrimonio, pro Repudiata. A woman diuorsed. Milites dimittere. Cic. To giue leaue to depart: to dimisse. Moras. Val. Flac. To leaue of al delay. Murmura venti dimittunt. Sil. The windes make no more noise. Dimista in populos notitia nominis. Sen. Spreade abroade. Dimittere occasionem. Ces. To leese occasion. Dimitti osculo. Plin. iun. To be kissed at departing. Patrimonium vnius incommodo dimittitur, ius amitti non potest fine magno incommodo ciuitatis. Cic. Is lost. Remiges dimittere. Cic. To dimisse mariners or rowers. Reum. Plin. iun. To dimisse and discharge. Scholam. Suet. To breake vp schoole: to giue vp teaching.

I. With particular reference to the prep., to send different ways, to send apart, i. e.,

A. To send out or forth in different directions, to send about (class.).

(a). With acc.: Naevius pueros circum amicos dimittit, Cic. Quint. 6, 2: consules designatos circum provincias, Suet. Aug. 64: litteras circum municipia, Caes. B. C. 3, 22, 1; cf.: litteras circa praefectos, Liv. 42, 51: litteras per omnes provincias, Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 4; with which cf.: nuntios per agros, id. B. G. 6, 31, 2: librum per totam Italiam, Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 2: edicta per provincias, Suet. Galb. 10: certos per litora, Verg. A. 1, 577 et saep.: nuntios tota civitate Aeduorum, Caes. B. G. 7, 38, 9: nuntios in omnes partes, id. ib. 4, 19, 2; 4, 34, 5; cf. ib. 5, 49, 8; and poet.: aciem (i. e. oculos) in omnes partes, Ov. M. 3, 381: praefectos in finitimas civitates, Caes. B. G. 3, 7, 3; cf.: Manlium Faesulas, Sall. C. 27 et saep.: nuntios ad Centrones, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 39, 1; so with ad, id. ib. 6, 34, 8; id. B. C. 1, 52 fin. al.: legatos quoquoversus, id. B. G. 3, 23, 2; 7, 4, 5; id. B. C. 1, 36, 2: dimissos equites pabulandi causa, id. ib. 1, 80, 3; cf. equitatum, id. B. G. 7, 71, 5: omnem ab se equitatum, id. ib. 1.—Trop.: animum ignotas in artes, Ov. M. 8, 188, directs, applies (al. demittit).—

(b). Without object acc.: dimisit circum omnes propinquas regiones, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 6: per provincias, Liv. 29, 37: ad amicos, Cic. Tull. Fragm. 22; cf.: in omnes partis, Caes. B. G. 6, 43, 1.—

B. To separate a multitude, to break up, dissolve; and subjectively, to dismiss (from one's self), to discharge, disband: senatu dimisso, Cic. Lael. 3, 12: senatum, id. Verr. 2, 4, 65: concilium, id. Leg. 2, 12, 31; id. Vatin. 2, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 31; id. B. C. 1, 32, 4 et saep.; cf. conventum, Sall. C. 21 fin.: exercitum (a standing military t. t.; cf. Vell. 2, 52, 4), Caes. B. C. 1, 2, 6; 1, 9, 5 et saep.: plures manus (with diducere, and opp. continere manipulos ad signa), Caes. B. G. 6, 34, 5: delectum, Plaut. Rud. 4, 8, 15: convivium, to break up, Liv. 36, 29; Tac. A. 15, 30 et saep.

II. With particular reference to the verb, to send away either an individual or a body; to let go, discharge, dismiss, release.

A. Lit.: aliquem ab se et amandare in ultimas terras, Cic. Sull. 20, 57; so, aliquem ab se, id. Fam. 13, 63; Nep. Att. 4, 2: discedentem aliquem non sine magno dolore, id. ib. 12, 18 fin.: aliquos aequos placatosque, id. Or. 10, 34; so, aliquem incolumem, Caes. B. C. 1, 18, 4; 1, 23, 3: ex custodia, Liv. 23, 2, 14: e carcere, Just. 21, 1, 5: impunitum, Sall. C. 51, 5: saucium ac fugatum, Nep. Hann. 4: neminem nisi victum, id. ib. 3 et saep.; cf.: aliquem ludos pessumos, i. e. pessime ludificatum, Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 12: uxorem, i. e. to put her away, repudiate her, Suet. Aug. 63 al.: Cossutia dimissa, quae desponsata fuerat, etc., id. Caes. 1: sponsam intactam, id. Aug. 62: cf. also: aliquam e matrimonio, Suet. Tib. 49; v. also under no. B.: creditorem, i. e. to pay him, Dig. 31, '72: debitorem, i. e. to forgive him the debt, ib. 50, 9, 4: equos, in order to fight on foot, Tac. Agr. 37 fin.; Verg. A. 10, 366; but also in order to flee, Caes. B. C. 3, 69 fin.: hostem ex manibus, id. ib. 1, 64, 2; 3, 49, 2; cf. also: Demosthenem (i. e. his orations) e manibus, to put out of one's hands, to lay down, Cic. Or. 30; cf.: istos sine ulla contumelia dimittamus, id. de Or. 3, 17, 64: milites, in oppidum, Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 2: a turpissima suspicione, to free, relieve, Petr. 13, 4.—Absol.: dimittam, ut te velle video, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 106; Cic. de Or. 1, 28; Quint. 11, 3, 86 al. —

2. Transf., of inanimate objects: eum locum, quem ceperant, to abandon, desert, Caes. B. C. 1, 44, 4: Italiam, id. ib. 1, 25, 4: ripas, id. B. G. 5, 18 fin.: complura oppida, Hirt. B. G. 8, 5: provinciam, Liv. 40, 43: captam Trojam, Ov. M. 13, 226 et saep.: fortunas morte, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 12; cf. patrimonium, id. Caecin. 26 fin.: speratam praedam ex manibus, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 1: signa ex metu, id. B. C. 3, 69 fin.; cf. arma, Sen. Ep. 66 fin.; Luc. 3, 367 et saep.— Esp.: dimissis manibus, with hands relaxed, i. e. in all haste: ibi odos dimissis manibus in caelum volat, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 52; cf.: dimissis pedibus, id. ib. v. 54: dimissis manibus fugere domum, id. Ep. 3, 1, 16.—

B. Trop., to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake: ista philosophia, quae nunc prope dimissa revocatur, Cic. Ac. 2, 4, 11: rem saepius frustra tentatam, Caes. B. C. 1, 26 fin.: exploratam victoriam, id. B. G. 7, 52, 2: oppugnationem, id. ib. 7, 17, 4; id. B. C. 3, 73, 1: occasionem rei bene gerendae, id. B. G. 5, 57, 1; cf. id. B. C. 1, 72, 4; 3, 25, 4: rei gerendae facultatem, id. ib. 1, 28, 2; 3, 97, 1: omnem rei frumentariae spem, id. ib. 1, 73, 1: condiciones pacis, id. ib. 1, 26, 2: principatum, id. B. G. 6, 12, 6: tempus, id. ib. 2, 21 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 89: suum jus (opp. retinere), id. Balb. 13, 31: vim suam, id. Fam. 9, 12: libertatem; id. Planc. 34 fin.: amicitias, id. Lael. 21: commemorationem nominis nostri, id. Arch. 11 fin.: quaestionem, id. Verr. 2, 2, 30: curam, id. Att. 14, 11; Tac. Or. 3: praeterita, instantia, futura pari oblivione, id. H. 3, 36: matrimonia, Suet. Calig. 25: fugam, Verg. A. 11, 706: coeptum iter, Ov. M. 2, 598: cursus, id. ib. 11, 446 et saep.: tantam fortunam ex manibus, Caes. B. G. 6, 37 fin.: studium et iracundiam suam rei publicae dimittere, i. q. condonare, to sacrifice to the good of the state, id. B. C. 3, 69, 3; cf.: tributa alicui, i. e. to remit, Tac. H. 3, 55: laudibus nomen alicujus in longum aevum, to transmit, Luc. 1, 448: dimissum quod nescitur, non amittitur, is foregone, not lost, Pub. Syr. 138 (Rib.).