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ēgressus , ūs, m. egredior,
I.a going out or away (class.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen., egress, departure.
1. In abstr.: frequentia sua vestrum egressum (sc. in provinciam) ornando, * Cic. Pis. 13 fin.: “Caesar rarus egressu,” Tac. A. 15, 53.—In plur., Sall. J. 35, 5 Kritz; Tac. A. 3, 33; 11, 12; id. Or. 6; Ov. F. 1, 138.—Of birds, a flying out, flight, Ov. M. 11, 748; Col. 8, 8, 1.—
2. In concreto: “per tenebrosum et sordidum egressum extraho Gitona,” Petr. 91, 3.—In plur., Tac. A. 16, 10; and poet. of the mouths of the Ister, Ov. Tr. 2, 189.—
B. In partic. (acc. to egredior, I. A. 2. b.), a disembarking, going ashore, landing, Caes. B. G. 5, 8, 3; id. B. C. 3, 23, 1; Auct. B. Afr. 3 fin.—
II. Trop., in rhet. lang. = egressio, II., a digression in speaking, Quint. 4, 3, 12; cf.: “libero egressu memorare,” to narrate with freedom in digression, Tac. A. 4, 32.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.8.3
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 13
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.748
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.23.1
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.53
    • Tacitus, Annales, 16.10
    • Tacitus, Annales, 3.33
    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.32
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 4, 3.12
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 35
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 8.8.1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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