I.a. [perh. for cecado, redupl. from cado], to go, i. e. to be in motion, move, walk, go along.
I. In gen.
A. Lit. (rare, and only poet.: for which, in the common lang., incedo); “candidatus cedit hic mastigia,” Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 10: “non prorsus, verum transvorsus cedit, quasi cancer,” id. Ps. 4, 1, 45; cf. id. ib. 1, 3, 74; Hor. S. 2, 1, 65.—More freq.,
B. Trop.
1. Like ire, to have some result, to eventuate, happen, result, turn out, to work; and, acc. to its connection, to turn out well or ill, to succeed or fail: “gesta quae prospere ei cesserunt,” Nep. Timoth. 4, 6; Sall. C. 26, 5; Tac. A. 1, 28: “cetera secundum eventum proelii cessura,” id. H. 3, 70; Suet. Aug. 91; Gell. 4, 5, 4: “bene,” Hor. S. 2, 1, 31; Ov. M. 8, 862; Plin. Pan. 44 fin.: “optime,” Quint. 10, 7, 14: “male,” Hor. S. 2, 1, 31; and: “male alicui,” Ov. M. 10, 80; Suet. Claud. 26; cf. Verg. A. 12, 148; Quint. 10, 2, 16: “utcumque cesserit,” Curt. 7, 4, 16; cf. Suet. Calig. 53; Tac. Agr. 18: “parum,” Suet. Claud. 34: “opinione tardius,” id. Ner. 33: “pro bono,” id. Tit. 7: “in vanum (labor),” Sen. Hippol. 183. —
2. Cedere pro aliquā re, to be equivalent to, to go for something, to be the price of: “oves, quae non peperint, binae pro singulis in fructu cedent,” Cato, R. R. 150, 2; Col. 12, 14; Tac. G. 14; Pall. Sept. 1, 4.—
II. In partic.
A. In respect to the terminus a quo.
1. To go from somewhere, to remove, withdraw, go away from, depart, retire (freq. and class.): “cedunt de caelo corpora avium,” Enn. Ann. 96 Vahl.: “quia postremus cedis,” Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 29: “ego cedam atque abibo,” Cic. Mil. 34, 93: “cedens carinā,” Cat. 64, 249; cf. id. 64, 53: “quoquam,” Lucr. 5, 843: “aliquo sucus de corpore cessit,” id. 3, 223: “coma de vertice,” Cat. 66, 39: “e toto corpore anima,” Lucr. 3, 210: “ex ingratā civitate,” Cic. Mil. 30, 81: “e patriā,” id. Phil. 10, 4, 8: “patriā,” id. Mil. 25, 68: “Italiā,” id. Phil. 10, 4, 8; Nep. Att. 9, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85 fin.—
b. Milit. t. t.: “de oppidis,” to abandon, go away from, Cic. Att. 7, 22, 2: “loco,” to yield, give up his post, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; Liv. 2, 47, 3; Tac. G. 6; Suet. Aug. 24 et saep.: “ex loco,” Liv. 3, 63, 1: “ex acie,” id. 2, 47, 2.—
c. In commercial lang. t. t.: foro, to withdraw from the market, i. e. to give up business, be insolvent, stop payment, Dig. 16, 3, 7, § 2; Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2; Juv. 11, 50.—So also,
d. Bonis or possessionibus (alicui), to give up or cede one's property or interest (in favor of a person): “alicui hortorum possessione,” Cic. Mil. 27, 75; so id. Off. 2, 23, 82; cf. Suet. Tib. 10; id. Caes. 72; id. Ner. 35; id. Gram. 11.— Hence of debtors, to make over their property instead of payment; cf. Dig. 42, 3, tit. de cessione bonorum.—
2. Pregn. (cf. abeo, II.), to pass away, disappear; and specif.,
a. Of men, to die: “vitā,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 35; Hor. S. 1, 1, 119: “e vita,” Cic. Brut. 1, 4; Plin. Pan. 43, 4; cf. “senatu,” to withdraw from, Tac. A. 2, 48; 11, 25.—
b. Of time, to pass away, vanish: “horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni,” Cic. Sen. 19, 69. —
c. Of other things: pudor ex pectore cessit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 250, 26: “memoriā,” Liv. 2, 33, 9 (for which: “excedere memoriā,” Liv. 7, 32, 15; and: “excedere e memoriā,” id. 26, 13, 5): “non Turno fiducia cessit,” Verg. A. 9, 126: “cedant curaeque metusque,” Stat. S. 1, 2, 26 et saep.; cf. cesso.—
3. Trop.: cedere alicui or absol., to yield to one (to his superiority), to give the preference or precedence, give place to, submit to (class.; esp. freq. in the histt., of the weaker party, withdrawing, fleeing from).
a. To yield to, give place to: “quācumque movemur, (aër) videtur quasi locum dare et cedere,” Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 83: “cedebat victa potestas,” Lucr. 5, 1271: “ubi vinci necesse est, expedit cedere,” Quint. 6, 4, 16; 11, 1, 17; 12, 10, 47; cf. Sall. J. 51, 1: “Viriatho exercitus nostri imperatoresque cesserunt,” Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40; Nep. Ham. 1, 2; Sall. J. 51, 4; Liv. 2, 10, 7; Tac. A. 1, 56; 4, 51; Suet. Tib. 16 et saep.: “Pelides cedere nescius,” Hor. C. 1, 6, 6: “di, quibus ensis et ignis Cesserunt,” i. e. who remained unhurt in the destruction of Troy, Ov. M. 15, 862: “eidem tempori, ejusdem furori, eisdem consulibus, eisdem minis, insidiis, periculis,” Cic. Sest. 29, 63; so, “fortunae,” Sall. C. 34, 2: “invidiae ingratorum civium,” Nep. Cim. 3, 2: “majorum natu auctoritati,” id. Timoth. 3, 4: “nocti,” Liv. 3, 17, 9, and 3, 60, 7; 4, 55, 5; cf. Quint. 5, 11, 9: “loco iniquo, non hosti cessum,” Liv. 8, 38, 9: “oneri,” Quint. 10, 1, 24: “vincentibus vitiis,” id. 8, 3, 45: “malis,” Verg. A. 6, 95 et saep.—
b. To yield to in rank, distinction, etc., i. e. to be inferior to: “cum tibi aetas nostra jam cederet, fascesque summitteret,” Cic. Brut. 6, 22: “nullā aliā re nisi immortalitate cedens caelestibus,” id. N. D. 2, 61, 153: “neque multum cedebant virtute nostris,” Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Quint. 1, 6, 36: Picenis cedunt pomis Tiburtia suco; “Nam facie praestant,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 70; so, “anseribus (candore),” Ov. M. 2, 539: “laudibus lanificae artis,” id. ib. 6, 6; “5, 529: cum in re nullā Agesilao cederet,” Nep. Chabr. 2, 3; Quint. 10, 1, 108: “alicui de aliquā re,” Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 80: “alicui re per aliquid,” id. 33, 3, 19, § 59.—Impers.: “ut non multum Graecis cederetur,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; Liv. 24, 6, 8. —
c. To comply with the wishes, to yield to one: “cessit auctoritati amplissimi viri vel potius paruit,” Cic. Lig. 7, 21; cf. Tac. A. 12, 5: “precibus,” Cic. Planc. 4, 9: “cessit tibi blandienti Cerberus,” Hor. C. 3, 11, 15; “cf,” id. Ep. 1, 18, 43 sq.; Verg. A. 2, 704; 3, 188; Ov. M. 6, 32; 6, 151; 9, 13; “9, 16: omnes in unum cedebant,” Tac. A. 6, 43; 3, 16; cf. id. ib. 12, 10 and 41.—Hence,
4. Act.: cedere (alicui) aliquid = concedere, to grant, concede, allow, give up, yield, permit something to some one: “permitto aliquid iracundiae tuae, do adulescentiae, cedo amicitiae, tribuo parenti,” Cic. Sull. 16, 46: “multa multis de jure suo,” id. Off. 2, 18, 64: “currum ei,” Liv. 45, 39, 2: “victoriam hosti,” Just. 32, 4, 7: “alicui pellicem et regnum,” id. 10, 2, 3: “imperium,” id. 22, 7, 4: “possessionem,” Dig. 41, 2, 1: “in dando et cedendo loco,” Cic. Brut. 84, 290.—Also with a clause as object, Stat. Th. 1, 704 (but in Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 67, read credit).—And with ut and subj.: “hac victoriā contenta plebes cessit patribus, ut in praesentiā tribuni crearentur, etc.,” Liv. 6, 42, 3; Tac. A. 12, 41: non cedere with quominus, Quint. 5, 7, 2.—
B. In respect to the terminus ad quem, to arrive, attain to, come somewhere: “cedunt, petunt,” Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 43: “ibi ad postremum cedit miles, aes petit,” id. ib. 3, 5, 52.—
C. Cedere alicui or in aliquem, to come to, fall (as a possession) to one, to fall to his lot or share, accrue: “ut is quaestus huic cederet,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 170: “captiva corpora Romanis cessere,” Liv. 31, 46, 16: “nolle ominari quae captae urbi cessura forent,” id. 23, 43, 14; Verg. A. 3, 297; 3, 333; 12, 17; 12, 183; Hor. C. 3, 20, 7; Ov. M. 5, 368; 4, 533: “undae cesserunt piscibus habitandae,” id. ib. 1, 74 al.: “alicui in usum,” Hor. S. 2, 2, 134: “Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere,” Tac. A. 1, 1; so id. H. 3, 83; id. Agr. 5; id. A. 2, 23: “aurum ex hostibus captum in paucorum praedam cessisse,” Liv. 6, 14, 12; Curt. 7, 6, 16; Tac. A. 15, 45; for which: cedere praedae (dat.) alicujus, Liv. 43, 19, 12; and: “praeda cedit alicui,” Hor. C. 3, 20, 7: “ab Tullo res omnis Albana in Romanum cesserit imperium,” Liv. 1, 52, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 174: “in dicionem M. Antonii provinciae cesserant,” Tac. H. 5, 9.—
D. Cedere in aliquid, like abire in aliquid (v. abeo, II.), to be changed or to pass into something, to be equivalent to or become something: “poena in vicem fidei cesserat,” Liv. 6, 34, 2; cf.: “temeritas in gloriam cesserat,” Curt. 3, 6, 18; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 91; Tac. H. 2, 59 fin.; id. G. 36; Plin. Pan. 83, 4: “in proverbium,” Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 42: “in exemplorum locum,” Quint. 5, 11, 36.—Hence, * cēdenter , adv. of the part. pres. cedens (not used as P. a.), by yielding, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 16, 129.
