The corpus record — Latin

desido

desido · v. n

to sink, fall

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Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
De Medicina 9 · 0.88/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

dē-sīdo — Lewis & Short

dē-sīdo, sēdi (de-sīdi, Cic. l. l. infra, Lampr 3, v. n., v. consido. —Of inanimate things, esp. of places,

id. Alex. Sev. 39, 7),

I to sink, fall, or settle down.

I Prop.: tantos terrae motus factos esse, ut multa oppida corruerint, multis locis labes factae sint terraeque desiderint, Cic. Div. 1, 35 fin.; 1, 43, 97; Liv. 32, 9; and poet. of the apparent sinking of mountains to one flying aloft: Gargara desidunt surgenti, Stat. Th. 1, 549: ovum inane natat, plenum desidit, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 11; Just. 4, 1, 10: ex urina quod desidit album est, sediment, Cels. 2, 7: tumor ex toto desidit, id. 7, 18. —*

II Trop., to deteriorate, degenerate: desidentes mores, Liv. prooem. 9.

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