rĕ-cēdo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n.,
I to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede.
A Lit. (class.; cf.:
decedo, abscedo): pone nos recede,Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34:
ego abs te procul recedam,id. Mil. 2, 4, 4:
hinc,id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7:
illuc,id. Rud. 3, 5, 7:
recedere loco,id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.:
centuriones ex eo quo stabant loco recesserunt,Caes. B. G. 5, 43:
non modo illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā quidem recessisse,Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21:
procul a telo veniente,Ov. M. 12, 359:
de medio,Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:
ab hoste,Ov. P. 3, 1, 151:
longius,Verg. G. 4, 191:
tristis recedo,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31:
ab Illiturgi,Liv. 24, 41:
in castra Corneliana,Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —
2 In partic., to retire to one's bedchamber, go to rest, Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—
B Transf.
1 Of inanimate and abstract things:
ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant,Cic. Planc. 6, 15:
verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant,yield, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113:
multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimunt,the departing years, id. A. P. 176:
abeant ac recedant voces illae,Plin. Pan. 2, 2.—
2 Of places, things, etc., to stand back, recede (i. e. to be distant or retired;
freq., esp. after the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae domus arboribusque obtecta recessit,Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and:
etsi lata recessit Urbe domus,Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21:
Palaestina vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas ... et quā recedit intus, Damascena,Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66:
Magna Graecia in tres sinus recedens Ausonii maris,id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations:
gens Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens,Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a painting, etc.:
pictor vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus,Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.:
venter recessit,Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—Poet., of places, which appear to recede by our departure from them:
provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt,Verg. A. 3, 72:
mea terra recedit,Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—
II In gen., to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place, to abandon a thing, = discedere.
A Lit. (in good prose very rare), = discedere, haec effatu' pater, germana, repente recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.):
nec vero a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes),Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—
2 Transf., of things, to separate from any thing (with which it was previously connected):
in aliis ossibus ex toto saepe fragmentum a fragmento recedit,Cels. 8, 7, 1:
carnes ab ossibus,Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67:
caput e cervice,Ov. P. 2, 8, 65;
for which also: caput cervice,id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —
B Trop., to withdraw, depart, desist (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si quid vos per laborem recte feceritis, labor ille a vobis cito recedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4:
avius a verā longe ratione recedit,Lucr. 2, 229:
senes, ut in otia tuta recedant, aiunt, etc.,Hor. S. 1, 1, 31:
ab officio recedere,Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58:
ab armis,i. e. to lay them down, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16:
penitus a naturā,id. Fin. 4, 16, 43:
ab eodem exemplo,Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21:
a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque,Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to kill one's self, id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 (but Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to die, in gen., a doubtful conjecture; Jahn, procedente vitā):
a veritatis viā longe,Lact. 2, 8, 1:
ab oppugnatione,Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of inanimate and abstract subjects:
postquam recessit vita patrio corpore,Plaut. Merc. prol. 73:
(nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit et proprie in eo, qui arma contra ferret, remansit,has lost the signification of foreigner, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so,
res a consuetudine,id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11:
figurae sententiarum ab illo simplici modo indicandi recedunt,id. 9, 2, 1:
ab usu cotidiano,id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.—Poet., with simple abl.:
sic nunquam corde recedit Nata tuo,departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.—Absol., to vanish, pass away, disappear:
et pariter Phoebes, pariter maris ira recessit,Ov. M. 12, 36:
spes,Luc. 7, 688:
quonam nostri tibi cura recessit?Verg. A. 2, 595:
fortuna recessit,id. ib. 3, 53.— With in:
in ventos vita recessit,passed away into the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), drawn back, receding:
scaena recessior,standing farther back, Vitr. 5, 8.