I.subj. perf. sync. excessis, Ter. And. 4, 4, 21), v. n. and a.
I. Neut., to go out, go forth or away, to depart, retire, withdraw (freq. and class.; cf.: discedo, deficio, destituo, desero, linquo, relinquo).
A. Lit.
1. In gen., with ex and abl., with abl. alone, or absol.: “ex istoc loco,” Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 18: “e medio,” Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 14: “ex civitate,” Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 8: “ex Italia,” Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 14: “e templo,” Liv. 29, 19; “for which, templo,” id. 39, 5: “ex finibus,” Caes. B. G. 7, 33, 2; “for which, finibus,” id. ib. 4, 18 fin.; 7, 77, 14; Liv. 30, 42; 41, 19 al.: ex illa circumscriptione, Cic. Phil. 8, 8: “ex itinere,” Caes. B. C. 1, 79 fin.; cf.: “ex via,” id. B. G. 5, 19, 1; “for which, viā,” Liv. 24, 20: “ex pugna, ex proelio,” Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 3; 4, 33, 2; “for which, more freq., pugnā,” id. B. G. 5, 36, 3; id. B. C. 2, 7, 1; Liv. 44, 42; Verg. A. 9, 789 al.; “and, proelio,” Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1; 3, 4, 3; 4, 12 fin.; 7, 80, 3; cf. “acio,” id. B. C. 2, 41, 7; 3, 94, 5; Liv. 31, 17: “loco,” Caes. B. C. 1, 44, 2; 3, 45, 4; Liv. 36, 10, 15; so, “locis,” id. 38, 27, 9; 27, 1, 5; “and bello,” Sall. C. 9, 4: “domo,” Caes. B. G. 4, 14 fin.: “oppido,” id. ib. 7, 78, 1; cf. “urbe,” Liv. 26, 24; 30, 7; 31, 17 et saep.: “Arimino,” Caes. B. C. 1, 10, 3; 1, 11, 1: “Galliā,” id. B. G. 7, 66, 4: “provinciis,” id. B. C. 1, 85 fin.: “patriā,” Verg. A. 1, 357: “sceleratā terrā,” id. ib. 3, 60 et saep.—With de (very rare): “de utero matris,” i. e. to be born, Dig. 1, 5, 15.—Absol.: “abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit,” Cic. Cat. 2, 1: “excedere deos, simul ingens motus excedentium,” Tac. H. 5, 13: “primi omnium Macedones metu excesserant,” Liv. 42, 67 fin.—Designating the terminus: “cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco,” Ter. And. 4, 4, 21: “agro hostium in Boeotiam,” Liv. 31, 26 fin.: “ex his tenebris in lucem illam,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 30 fin.; cf.: “ad deos,” Vell. 1. 2: “invictum fore donec excederet ad deos,” Curt. 4, 7, § 27: “in exsilium,” Dig. 48, 19, 4; “in which sense also simply excedere,” ib. 48, 22, 7, § 17.—
2. In partic.
a. To go beyond, overstep, rise above, overtop a certain boundary.—Of personal subjects very rarely: “alter in Pontum, alter usque Aegyptum excessit,” Just. 1, 1, 6.—More freq. of inanimate subjects: “ut nulla (pars) excederet extra,” Cic. Univ. 5; Cels. 8, 9 fin.; cf. “with eminere,” id. 8, 25 fin.: “montes et excedentia in nubes juga,” Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 3.—
b. To depart from life, to decease, to die (cf. decedo): “sic ille cum undequadraginta annos regnavisset, excessit e vita,” Cic. Rep. 2, 14 fin.; so, “e vita,” id. Fin. 3, 18, 60; id. Brut. 20 fin.; id. Lael. 3 fin.; id. Off. 1, 43, 153: “vitā,” id. Tusc. 1, 13, 29; id. Brut. 75, 262; id. N. D. 3, 16, 41; Val. Max. 2, 6, 8; 5, 5, 3; Curt. 3, 1, 21; 9, 6, 6; Tac. H. 4, 75: “e medio,” Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74 Ruhnk.; and simply excedere (postAug.; “but v. decedo excessus, I.),” Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; Tac. A. 1, 5 fin.; 1, 33; Suet. Aug. 5; id. Claud. 45; id. Vesp. 2; id. Tit. 11; Val. Fl. 1, 826; Curt. 10, 5, 2; Sen. Ep. 77, 10.—
B. Trop.
1. In gen. (very rarely): “cum animus Eudemi e corpore excesserit,” Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24; 1, 32, 78; id. Lael. 4, 13 al.: “corpore excedere,” id. Div. 1, 30, 63: ex pristina bellandi consuetudine, Auct. B. Afr. 73: palmā, to recede from victory, to yield the victory (= decedere alicui de victoria), Verg. A. 5, 380.—Far more freq.,
2. In partic.
a. (Acc. to A. 2. a.) To go beyond a certain boundary or a certain measure, to advance, proceed, to transgress, digress (= procedere, progredi): mihi aetas ex magisterio tuo: Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 40: “is postquam excessit ex ephebis,” Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 (quoted in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327); cf.: “ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias,” Cic. Arch. 3: “ad patres etiam et ad publicam querimoniam excessit res,” Liv. 25, 1; cf. Val. Max. 5, 6, 4: “haec eo anno in Africa gesta. Insequentia excedunt in eum annum, quo, etc.,” Liv. 30, 26; cf. id. 21, 15: “paululum ad enarrandum, etc.,” to digress, Liv. 29, 29, 5; cf.: “in fabellam,” Sen. Ep. 77: “in aliquid,” Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 44 fin.: “res parva dictu, sed quae studiis in magnum certamen excesserit,” Liv. 34, 1; cf. id. 33, 35 fin.; 8, 33; cf. id. 3, 41: “eo laudis excedere, quo, etc.,” to attain that height of fame, Tac. Agr. 42 fin.: tantum illa clades novitate et magnitudine excessit, i. e. exceeded, went beyond = eminuit, Tac. A. 2, 24.—
b. (Acc. to A. 2. b.) To depart, disappear: “cura ex corde excessit,” Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12: “cum cupiditatum dominatus excessit,” Cic. Par. 5, 3, 40: “jam e memoria excessit, quo tempore? etc.,” Liv. 26, 13; “for which, memoriā,” id. 7, 32 fin.: “ubi reverentia excessit animis,” Curt. 8, 8.— Poet.: “Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque?” i. e. have they slipped from your memory? Sil. 15, 35.
II. Act. (post-Aug.).
A. Lit., to depart from, to leave a place: “urbem,” Liv. 2, 37, 8; 1, 29, 6; 3, 57, 10; “23, 1: curiam,” id. 45, 20; cf. pass. impers.: “Crotonem excessum est,” id. 24; 3 fin.—
B. Transf., to go beyond, surpass, exceed a certain limit, to overtop, tower above (cf. above, I. A. 2. a., and B. 2. a.): “nubes excedit Olympus,” Luc. 2, 271: “statura, quae justam excederet,” Suet. Tib. 68: “summam octoginta milium,” Liv. 39, 5; “so of numbers, very freq.,” Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22; 13, 3, 4, § 20; Quint. 9, 4, 79; Tac. A. 1, 14; Suet. Aug. 77 al.; cf. “also of age,” Col. 6, 21: “triennium vitae,” Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166: “annum aetatis centesimum,” id. 25, 2, 5, § 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4; 3, 7, 9; Suet. Gramm. 7; “of measure: laborum periculorumque modum,” Vell. 2, 122 fin.; so, “modum,” Liv. 26, 19; 28, 25; Quint. 3, 6, 62; 8, 3, 48 al.: “eloquentia aut aequavit praestantissimorum gloriam aut excessit,” Suet. Caes. 55; cf.: “praeturae gradum,” id. Oth. 1: “principum fastigium,” id. Calig. 22: “fastigium equestre,” Tac. A. 4, 40: “excedente humanam fidem temeritate,” Vell. 2, 51, 3; so, “fidem,” Plin. 7, 21, 21, § 85; Ov. M. 7, 166: “excessisse Priscum inmanitate et saevitia crimina, quibus, etc.,” Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 2: “nemine tantum ceteros excedente, ut ei aliquis se summitteret,” Just. 13, 2.—With simple acc.: “decretum, ne vasa auro solida ministrandis cibis fierent, etc. ... Excessit Fronto ac postulavit modum argento,” went beyond the proposal, Tac. A. 2, 33 (cf.: “egredi relationem,” id. ib. 2, 38).—Pass.: “duo enim multitudo, unione jam excessā,” Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 5.
