I.to fall out or down, to fall from (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: quod (animal) cum ex utero elapsum excidit, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: “sol excidisse mihi e mundo videtur,” id. Att. 9, 10, 3: “gladii de manibus exciderunt,” id. Pis. 9 fin.; cf. id. Phil. 12, 3, 8; id. Cat. 1, 6 fin.; “for which also: inter manus (urna),” Prop. 4 (5), 4, 22. and: “a digitis (ansa),” Ov. H. 16, 252: “Palinurus exciderat puppi,” Verg. A. 6, 339; cf. “arce,” Ov. F. 5, 34: “equis,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 1164: “num qui nummi exciderunt, here, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17; cf. id. Cist. 4, 2, 8; id. Merc. 3, 1, 44; id. Poen. 1, 2, 48: “volvae excidunt,” Plin. 36, 21, 39, § 151.—Poet.: “ita vinclis Excidet aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit,” will slip out of the fetters, Verg. G. 4, 410: “in flumen (elephanti, sc. e rate),” Liv. 21, 28 fin.: “cum Herculis pertractanti arma sagitta excidisset in pedem,” Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66: “ante pedes (lingua resecta),” Ov. Ib. 536.—
B. In partic., of a lot, to fall of come out (very rare): “ut cujusque sors exciderat,” Liv. 21, 42, 3; “and hence, transf.: nominibus in urnam conjectis, citari quod primum sorte nomen excidit,” id. 23, 3, 7.
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to fall out involuntarily, fall from, slip out, escape: “verbum ex ore alicujus,” Cic. Sull. 26; cf.: “vox excidit ore: Venisti tandem, etc.,” Verg. A. 6, 686: “tantumque nefas patrio excidit ore?” id. ib. 2, 658; cf.: “scelus ore tuo,” Ov. M. 7, 172: “quod verbum tibi non excidit, ut saepe fit, fortuito,” Cic. Phil. 10, 2 fin.; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 23; 7, 2, 52; 9, 4, 41 al.: “libellus me imprudente et invito excidit,” escaped me without my knowledge or desire, Cic. de Or. 1, 21; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 5: “vox horrenda per auras excidit,” Verg. A. 9, 113: “et pariter vultusque deo plectrumque colorque Excidit,” Ov. M. 2, 602; cf. id. ib. 4, 176: “ut quodammodo victoria e manibus excideret,” Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2: “(versus) qui in breves excidunt,” i. e. which close, terminate, Quint. 9, 4, 106.—Poet.: in vitium libertas excidit, qs. falls away, sinks, = delabitur, Hor. A. P. 282.—
B. In partic. *
1. To dissent, differ from any one's opinion: ego ab Archilocho excido, Lucil. ap. Non. 301, 18.—
2. To pass away, be lost, perish, disappear: “neque enim verendum est, ne quid excidat aut ne quid in terram defluat,” Cic. Lael. 16, 58: “primo miser excidit aevo,” Prop. 3, 7, 7 (4, 6, 7 M.): “nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, etc.,” Hor. C. 3, 5, 30: “at non ingenio quaesitum nomen ab aevo Excidet,” Prop. 3, 2, 24 (4, 1, 64 M.): “excidit omnis luctus,” Ov. M. 8, 448: “ne Tarentinae quidem arcis excidit memoria,” Liv. 27, 3 fin.; cf. the foll.—Esp.
b. To fail, faint, swoon, lose one's self: “excidit illa metu, rupitque novissima verba,” Ov. A. A. 1, 5, 39; cf.: ut scias quemadmodum nunquam excidam mihi, lose control of myself (through drink), Sen. de Ira, 3, 14, 1: “quis me dolori reddit? quam bene excideram mihi!” Sen. Hippol. 589 sq.—
c. To slip out, escape from the memory: “excidere de memoria,” Liv. 29, 19 fin.: “exciderat pacis mentio ex omnium animis,” id. 34, 37; cf. “animo,” Verg. A. 1, 26; Ov. H. 20, 188; “and pectore,” id. Pont. 2, 4, 24: “o miram memoriam, Pomponi, tuam! at mihi ista exciderant,” Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 46; so with dat.: “quae cogitatio, cum mihi non omnino excidisset, etc.,” id. Fam. 5, 13, 2; id. Att. 6, 1, 7; Quint. 4, 5, 4; 10, 1, 75; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 20; 4 (5), 7, 15 et saep.; cf. with a subjectclause: “non excidit mihi, scripsisse me, etc.,” Quint. 2, 3, 10.—Absol.: “quid? non haec varietas mira est, excidere proxima, vetera inhaerere? hesternorum immemores acta pueritiae recordari,” id. 11, 2, 6; 1, 12, 6; 4, 2, 91; 4, 5, 2; cf. with inf. clause: “si calore dicendi vitare id excidisset,” id. 11, 3, 130; and with ut: “excidit, ut peterem, etc.,” i. e. I forgot to beg, Ov. M. 14, 139.—Rarely transf. to the person: “excidens,” who forgets, forgetful, Quint. 11, 2, 19: “palam moneri excidentis est,” id. 11, 3, 132.—
3. (Ex) aliquā re, of persons, to be deprived of, to lose, miss, forfeit (esp. freq. since the Aug. per.; “in Cic. not at all): ex familia,” Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 104: “uxore,” to be disappointed of, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12: “regno,” Curt. 10, 5: “quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis,” failed in a great attempt, Ov. M. 2, 328; cf.: “fine medicinae,” Quint. 2, 17, 25: “genere,” id. 1, 5, 16: qui apud privatos judices plus petendo formula excidissent, i. e. who lost their suits (for the usual cadere formulā or causā; “v. cado, II.),” Suet. Claud. 14; Sen. Clem. 2, 3.
