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dif-fīdo , fīsus (post-class.
I.perf. diffidi), 3, v. n., to distrust; to be diffident or distrustful, to despair (freq. and class.).
(β). With a dependent clause: “antiquissimi invenire se posse, quod cuperent, diffisi sint,Cic. Ac. 2, 3; id. Quint. 24, 77; id. Or. 1, 3; 28, 97; Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Quint. 10, 1, 126 al.; cf.: “quos diffidas sanos facere, facies,Cato R. R. 157, 13: “quem manu superare posse diffiderent,Nep. Alcib. 10, 4.—*
(γ). With ne: “ne terras aeterna teneret,Lucr. 5, 980.—
(δ). Rarely with abl. (after the analogy of fido and confido): “diffisus occasione,Suet. Caes. 3 Burm. and Oud.; so, “paucitate suorum,Front. Strat. 1, 8, 5 Oud.: “paucitate cohortium (al. paucitati),Tac. H. 2, 23: “potestate,Lact. 5, 20 (also Caes. B. C. 1, 12, 2, several good MSS. have voluntate; and id. ib. 3, 97, 2: eo loco, v. Oud. on the former pass.).— (ε) Absol.: “(facis) ex confidente actutum diffidentem denuo,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 15: “jacet, diffidit, abjecit hastas,Cic. Mur. 21, 45: “ita graviter aeger, ut omnes medici diffiderent. id, Div. 1, 25, 53: de Othone, diffido,id. Att. 12, 43, 2 al.—Hence, diffīdens , entis, P. a., without self-confidence, diffident, anxious, Suet. Claud. 35; id. Tib. 65. —Adv.: diffīdenter , without self-confidence, diffidently (very rare): timide et diffidenter attingere aliquid, * Cic. Clu. 1, 1: “agere,Liv. 32, 21, 8: “incedere,Amm. 26, 7, 13.—Comp.: “timidius ac diffidentius bella ingredi,Just. 38, 7, 4.
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