abs-cēdo — Lewis & Short
abs-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n. (sync. abscēssem = abscessissem,
Sil. 8, 109),I to go off or away, to depart.
I Lit.
A In gen.:
abscede hinc, sis, sycophanta,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 162:
meo e conspectu,id. Capt. 2, 3, 74:
numquam senator a curiā abscessit aut populus e foro,Liv. 27, 50, 4; so,
a corpore (mortui),Tac. A. 1, 7; cf. id. ib. 3, 5:
ut abscesserit inde (i. e. e castris) dictator,Liv. 22, 25, 9:
illorum navis longe in altum abscesserat,Plaut. Rud. prol. 66.
B In partic.
1 Milit. t. t., to march off, to depart, retire:
non prius Thebani Spartā abscessissent quam, etc.,Nep. Iphicr. 2 fin.:
longius ab urbe hostium,Liv. 3, 8, 8; cf.:
a moenibus Alexandriae,id. 44, 19, 11.—Absol.:
si urgemus obsessos, si non ante abscedimus quam, etc.,Liv. 5, 4, 10; so Nep. Epam. 9.—Impers.:
abscedi ab hoste,Liv. 22, 33, 10; cf. id. 27, 4, 1:
nec ante abscessum est quam, etc.,id. 29, 2, 16; so,
a moenibus abscessum est,id. 45, 11, 7:
manibus aequis abscessum,Tac. A. 1, 63.
2 To disappear, withdraw, be lost from view: cor (est) in extis: jam abscedet, simul ac, etc., will disappear, Cic. Div. 2, 16 fin.—Poet.:
Pallada abscessisse mihi,has withdrawn from me, from my power, Ov. M. 5, 375.—Of stars, to set, Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72 al.
3 Of localities, to retire, recede, retreat:
quantum mare abscedebat,retired, Liv. 27, 47 fin.;
so in architecture: frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio,of the sides in the background, Vitr. 1, 2, 2; so id. 1, 2, 7, praef. 11.
4 With respect to the result, to retire, to escape:
abscedere latere tecto,to escape with a whole skin, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 5.
II Fig., to leave off, retire, desist from, constr. with ab, the simple abl., or absol.: labor ille a vobis cito recedet, benefactum a vobis non abscedet (followed by abibit), Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1 fin.; so,
cito ab eo haec ira abscedet,Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 15.— With abl. only:
haec te abscedat suspicio,Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 100:
abscedere irrito incepto,to desist from, Liv. 20, 7, 1.—Absol.:
aegritudo abscesserit,Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 29; so,
somnus,Ov. F. 3, 307:
imago,Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 6:
ille abscessit (sc. petitione sua),desisted from the action, Tac. A. 2, 34:
ne quid abscederet (sc. de hereditate),Suet. Ner. 34; so,
semper abscedente usufructu,Dig. 7, 1, 3, § 2.