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rĕ-sīdo , sēdi (in some MSS. also rĕsīdi), 3, v. n.,
I.to sit down, to settle anywhere (class.).
I. Lit.: “residamus, si placet,” Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 9 Madv. N. cr.: “in ripă inambulantes, tum vero residentes,” id. Leg. 1, 5, 15: “(aves) plurimum volant ... cetera genera residunt et insistunt,” Plin. 10, 39, 55, § 114: “mediis residunt Aedibus,” Verg. A. 8, 467: “Siculis arvis,” id. ib. 5, 702: “residunt In partem, quae peste caret,” id. ib. 9, 539: loci amoenitate captos in iisdem terris cum virgine resedisse, Just. 13, 7, 8. — Poet.: “jam jam residunt cruribus asperae Pelles,” settle, gather, Hor. C. 2, 20, 9. — In perf.: “consessu exstructo resedit,” Verg. A. 5, 290. —
B. Transf., of things, to settle or sink down, to sink, subside (cf. consido and decido): “si montes resedissent,” Cic. Pis. 33, 82: “(Nilus) residit iisdem quibus accrevit modis (opp. crescit),” Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 57; Ov. M. 15, 272; cf.: “maria in se ipsa residant (opp. tumescant),” Verg. G. 2, 480; Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 67: “residentibus flammis,” Tac. A. 13, 57.—
II. Trop. (acc. to I. B.), to sink or settle down, to abate, grow calm, subside: “cum venti posuere omnisque repente resedit Flatus,” Verg. A. 7, 27: “sex mihi surgat opus numeris (i. e. in the hexameter), m quinque residat (i. e. in the pentameter),” Ov. Am. 1, 1, 27 (cf. Coleridge's "falling in melody back"): “(poëma) apte et varie nunc attollebatur, nunc residebat,” Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 2: “si contrarius ventus resedisset,” id. ib. 6, 16, 12: “cum tumor animi resedisset,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26; cf.: Marcelli impetus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 2: “impetus animorum ardorque,” Liv. 26, 18, 10: “ardor,” Ov. M. 7, 76; cf.: “sed propera ne vela cadant auraeque residant,” id. A. A. 1, 373: “irae,” Liv. 2, 29: “terror,” id. 35, 38: “bellum,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 30; Verg. A. 9, 643: “clandestinis nunciis Allobrogas sollicitat, quorum mentes nondum ab superiore bello resedisse sperabat,” Caes. B. G. 7, 64, 7: “longiore certamine sensim residere Samnitium animos,” Liv. 10, 28: “ardorem eum, qui resederat, excitare rursus,” id. 26, 19: “tumida ex ira corda,” Verg. A. 6, 407.
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 (23):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 8.2.2
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.64.7
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 33.82
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 29
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.272
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.76
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.27
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.407
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.467
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.643
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.290
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.480
    • Tacitus, Annales, 13.57
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.57
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 6.16
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.17.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 28
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 18.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 19
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 38
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 1.5
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.2
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.12
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