I.v. dep. n. [gradior], to go apart or asunder, to separate, part; to go away, depart, = discedere (class.).
I. Lit.: “luna tum congrediens cum sole, tum digrediens,” Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103; cf.: “digredimur paulum rursumque ad bella coimus,” Ov. M. 9, 42: “ita utrique digrediuntur,” Sall. J. 22 fin.; cf.: “digredimur flentes,” Ov. H. 18, 117: “ubi digressi,” Verg. A. 4, 80.—With term. a quo: “numquam est a me digressus,” Cic. Sull. 12: “ab aliquo,” id. Fam. 4, 12; 12, 18; id. Att. 3, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 57, 4; Sall. J. 18, 11; Liv. 22, 7 al.; cf.: “a marito,” to abandon, Suet. Caes. 43: “a colloquio Caninii,” Caes. B. C. 1, 26, 4; Liv. 39, 35: “a Corcyra,” id. 42, 37: “ex eo loco,” Caes. B. C. 1, 72, 4; cf.: “ex colloquio,” Liv. 35, 38: “domo,” Sall. J. 79, 7: “triclinio,” Suet. Ner. 43; cf. id. Aug. 74: “inde,” id. Tib. 6 al. —Absol.: “hos ego digrediens lacrimis affabar obortis,” Verg. A. 3, 492; cf. id. 5, 650; Tac. A. 1, 27; id. H. 3, 69 al.: “dein statim digrediens,” stepping aside, Sall. J. 94, 2 Kritz. —With term. ad quem: “ambo in sua castra digressi,” Sall. J. 109, 3; Tac. A. 4, 74; 6, 1; cf.: “in urbem ad capessendos magistratus,” id. Agr. 6: “ad sua tutanda,” id. A. 4, 73; Front. Strat. 1, 4, 3: “Seleuciam,” Tac. A. 2, 69: “domum,” id. ib. 2, 30: “digredientem eum cum Caesare circumsistunt,” id. ib. 1, 27.
II. Trop., to go aside, deviate, depart. —With term. a quo: nos nostro officio nihil digressos esse. * Ter. Ph. 4, 5, 10.—
B. Esp., in speaking or writing, to digress (but de-gredi, which is sometimes found in edd. in this sense is incorrect, v. h. v.): “digredi ab eo, quod proposueris,” Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 311: “parumper a causa,” id. Brut. 93 fin.: “de causa,” id. Inv. 1, 51 fin.: “ex eo et regredi in id,” Quint. 10, 6, 5.—Absol.: “saepe datur ad commovendos animos digrediendi locus,” Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 312; so ib. 2, 19, 80; Quint. 3, 11, 26; 4, 3, 17: “verum huc longius, quam voluntas fuit, ab epistola Timarchidi digressa est oratio mea,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.: “sed eo jam, unde huc digressi sumus, revertamur,” id. N. D. 3, 23 fin.; cf. id. Brut. 87 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 15.
