to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw,
recede: ex eo quo stabant loco, Cs.: procul a telo veniente, O.: de medio: tristis
recedo, H.: ab Iliturgi, L.: in castra Cornelia, Cs.—Poet, to go to rest, retire, O.
—To recede, fall back, give way, give place, depart: Verba
movere loco, quamvis invita recedant, yield, H.: anni,
Multa recedentes adimunt, H.—To stand back, recede, be distant,
be retired Provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, V.: mea
terra recedit, O.—To go away withdraw, retire, depart, part:
Haec ecfatu' pater recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. C.:
a stabulis recedunt (apes), V.: Caesa recesserunt a cute membra suā, O.—Fig., to
withdraw, depart, retire, desist: senes ut in otia tuta
recedant, H.: ab officio: ab armis, i. e. lay
down: penitus a naturā: a vitā, i. e.
kill oneself: quā ratione res ab usitatā
consuetudine recederet, deviate: (nomen hostis) a
peregrino recessit, has lost the meaning of
‘foreigner.’—To vanish, pass away, disappear: Ph<*>ebes ira recessit, O.: in
ventos vita recessit, V.: cum res ab eo
recessisset, was lost to him.
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