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|lshtext=<b>dēgo</b>: dēgi, 3, v. a. de-[[ago]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[spend]], [[pass]], sc. [[time]] (for syn. cf.: [[ago]], [[gero]], [[facio]]—[[very]] freq. and [[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: a [[mane]] ad noctem [[usque]] in [[foro]] [[dego]] diem, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 3; so, diem in [[laetitia]], Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 6: aetatem, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 79; Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 70; Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 150; id. Fin. 2, 35, 118 al.: omne [[tempus]] aetatis, id. de Sen. 1, 2: aevom, Lucr. 2, 1094; 5, 173; Cic. Fragm. ap. Augustin. Trin. 4, 2: vitam, Lucr. 3, 313; Cic. Sull. 27, 75; Verg. A. 4, 551 al.: [[quod]] reliquum est vitae, Cic. Fam. 11, 28 fin.: senectam turpem, Hor. Od. 1, 31, 20: [[otia]] pacato in thalamo, Catull. 68, 104 al.—Pass.: quantis periclis degitur hoc aevi, Lucr. 2, 16; so, [[aetas]], id. 4, 1178; Cic. Lael. 23, 87; id. Off. 1, 32, 117; id. N. D. 1, 19, 50: [[vita]], id. Fin. 4, 12, 30; Plin. 12, 1, 2, § 5 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol., to [[live]] (not freq. [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. [[period]]): [[laetus]] deget, Hor. Od. 3, 29, 42: gentes sic degunt, Plin. H. N. 12 prooem. § 1: [[certus]] [[procul]] urbe degere, Tac. A. 4, 57: [[sine]] [[nequitia]], Sen. Ep. 74; cf. Plin. 6, 17, 19, § 50; 6, 25, 29, § 112: [[vita]] humanior [[sine]] [[sale]] non [[quit]] degere, to [[continue]], [[endure]], id. 31, 7, 41, § 88.—<br /><b>II</b> To [[carry]] on, [[wage]]: nautae contractum cum ventis degere [[bellum]] (cf.: agere, peragere [[bellum]]), Lucr. 4, 968.!*? "DEGERE antiqui posuerunt pro exspectare," Paul. ex Fest. 73, 4 Müll.
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