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linquo , līqui, 3 (
I.part. lictus, Capitol. M. Aurel. 7 dub.), v. a. Gr. λιπ- in λείπω, λοιπός; cf. Lat. licet.
I. To leave, quit, forsake, depart from something (cf.: “destituo, desero): urbem exsul linquat,Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 69: “terram,Cic. Planc. 10, 26: “nil intentatum nostri liquere poëtae,Hor. A. P. 285: “linquenda tellus,id. C. 2, 14, 21.—Absol., to go away: “linquebat comite ancilla una,Juv. 6, 119.—
B. Esp.
1. Linqui animo, and simply linqui, to swoon, faint, Suet. Caes. 45: “linquor et ancillis excipienda cado,Ov. H. 2, 130; so act.: “me liquit animus,Sen. Troad. 623; Ov. M. 8, 363.—
2. Linquere lumen, animam, vitam, to die: “lumen linque,Plaut. Cist. 3, 12: “dulcia linquebant labentis lumina vitae,Lucr. 5, 989; 3, 542: “linquebant dulces animas,Verg. A. 3, 140: “animam,Ov. M. 13, 522; Quint. Decl. 13, 6: “nec Poenum liquere doli,Sil. 5, 38. —
II. To leave, give up, resign, abandon something: “linquamus haec,Cic. de Or. 3, 10, 38: “linquamus naturam, artesque videamus,id. ib. 3, 46, 180: “linque severa,Hor. C. 3, 8, 28: “spem,Val. Fl. 1, 631: “inrita ventosae linquens promissa procellae,Cat. 64, 59.—
III. To leave in any place or condition: “erum in opsidione linquet,Plaut. As. 2, 2, 14: “lupos apud oves,id. Ps. 1, 2, 8. —
V. Impers. pass.: linquitur, it is left, it remains.— With ut and subj.: linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur. Lucr. 2, 914: et vix cernere linquitur undas, Silv. 4, 628.
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    • Cicero, For Plancius, 10.26
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.522
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    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.2
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.140
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    • Seneca, Troades, 623
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