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|lshtext=<b>cesso</b>: āvi, ātum, 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. freq. n. and a. [1. [[cedo]]; lit., to [[stand]] [[back]] [[very]] [[much]]; [[hence]], to be [[remiss]] in [[any]] [[thing]], to [[delay]], [[loiter]], or, in gen., to [[cease]] from, [[stop]], [[give]] [[over]] (indicating a [[blamable]] [[remissness]]; [[while]] desinere, intermittere, requiescere do not [[include]] [[that]] [[idea]]: cessat [[desidiosus]], requiescit [[fessus]], [[Don]]. ad Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 15. Diff. from cunctari in this, [[that]] the [[latter]] designates [[inaction]] arising from [[want]] of [[resolution]], [[but]] cessare [[that]] [[which]] is the [[result]] of [[slothfulness]]; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 300 sq.; [[class]]. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]): [[paulum]] si cessassem, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 5; 4, 6, 16; id. Ad. 4, 2, 49: si tabellarii non cessarint, Cic. Prov. Cons. 7, 15: in suo [[studio]] [[atque]] opere, id. Sen. 5, 13: ne [[quis]] in eo, [[quod]] me viderit facientem, cesset, Liv. 35, 35, 16; cf. id. 35, 18, 8: ab apparatu operum ac munitionum [[nihil]] cessatum, id. 21, 8, 1; 34, 16, 3; 31, 12, 2; Tac. A. 3, 28: [[quidquid]] [[apud]] durae cessatum est [[moenia]] Trojae, [[whatever]] [[delay]] [[there]] [[was]], Verg. A. 11, 288: audaciā, to be [[deficient]] in [[spirit]], Liv. 1, 46, 6; cf.: nullo [[umquam]] [[officio]], id. 42, 6, 8: ad [[arma]] cessantes Concitet, Hor. C. 1, 35, 15 et saep.—So in admonitions: [[quid]] cessas? Ter. And. 5, 6, 15; Tib. 2, 2, 10: [[quid]] cessatis? Curt. 4, 16, 5: quor cessas? Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 69; cf.: cessas in vota precesque ([[poet]]. for cessas facere vota), [[Tros]], ait, [[Aenea]]? cessas? Verg. A. 6, 51 sq.; Tib. 3, 6, 57.— With dat. incommodi: it [[dies]]; ego mihi [[cesso]], i. e. to my [[own]] [[injury]], Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 12 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Ep. 3, 2, 8: sed ego [[nunc]] mihi [[cesso]], qui non umerum hunc [[onero]] pallio, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 4.—<br /> <b>b</b> With inf.: ego [[hinc]] migrare [[cesso]], Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 6 sq.: [[numquid]] [[principio]] cessavit [[verbum]] [[docte]] dicere? id. Pers. 4, 4, 3; so, alloqui, Ter. And. 2, 2, 6; 5, 2, 4: adoriri, id. Heaut. 4, 5, 9: pultare [[ostium]], id. ib. 3, 1, 1; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 30: introrumpere, id. Eun. 5, 5, 26: detrahere de nobis, Cic. Att. 11, 11, 2: mori, Hor. C. 3, 27, 58 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen.<br /> <b>A</b> To be [[inactive]], [[idle]], at [[leisure]], to do [[nothing]]: [[cur]] tam multos deos [[nihil]] agere et cessare patitur? [[cur]] non rebus humanis aliquos otiosos deos praeficit? Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 93; cf. id. ib. 1, 9, 22; id. Off. 3, 1, 1: [[nisi]] [[forte]] ego [[vobis]] cessare [[nunc]] videor; cum bella non [[gero]], id. de Sen. 6, 18: et si [[quid]] cessare potes, requiesce sub umbrā, Verg. E. 7, 10: cessabimus una, Prop. 3 (4), 23, 15; Ov. M. 4, 37: [[cur]] [[alter]] fratrum cessare et ludere et ungi praeferat, etc., Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 183 (cessare otiari et jucunde vivere, Schol. Crucq.); so id. ib. 1, 7, 57: per hibernorum [[tempus]], Liv. 36, 5, 1: cessatum [[usque]] [[adhuc]] est: [[nunc]] [[porro]] expergiscere, Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 23: cessatum ducere curam, [[put]] to [[rest]], Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 31: non timido, non ignavo cessare tum licuit, Curt. 3, 11, 5.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of things, to be at [[rest]], to [[rest]], be [[still]], [[inactive]], [[unemployed]], or [[unused]], etc.: si cessare putas rerum [[primordia]] posse, Cessandoque novos rerum progignere [[motus]], Lucr. 2, 80 sq.: [[quid]] ita cessarunt [[pedes]]? Phaedr. 1, 9, 5: et [[grave]] suspenso vomere cesset [[opus]], Tib. 2, 1, 6; Ov. F. 6, 348: [[Achilles]] cessare in Teucros pertulit [[arma]] sua, Prop. 2, 8, 30: [[cur]] Berecyntiae Cessant [[flamina]] tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 19, 19: cessat [[voluntas]]? id. ib. 1, 27, 13: cessat ira deae, Liv. 29, 18, 10: solas [[sine]] ture relictas Praeteritae cessasse ferunt Letoïdos aras, i. e. remained unsought, unapproached, Ov. M. 8, 278; cf.: at [[nunc]] desertis cessant sacraria lucis, Prop. 3 (4), 13, 47; and: cessaturae casae, Ov. F. 4, 804: cessans [[honor]], a [[vacant]] [[office]], Suet. Caes. 76.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Of [[land]], to [[lie]] [[uncultivated]], [[fallow]] (cf. [[cessatio]]): alternis [[idem]] tonsas cessare novales, Verg. G. 1, 71; Plin. 18, 23, 52, § 191; cf. Suet. Aug. 42.—Pass.: cessata arva, Ov. F. 4, 617.—Trop., of a [[barren]] [[woman]], Paul. Nol. Carm. 6, 48.—<br /> <b>c</b> Sometimes cessare alicui rei, [[like]] vacare alicui rei, to [[have]] [[leisure]] for [[something]], i.e. to [[attend]] to, [[apply]] one's [[self]] to: amori, Prop. 1, 6, 21.—<br /> <b>B</b> Rarely (prob. not [[ante]]-Aug.), not to be at [[hand]] or [[present]], to be [[wanting]]: cessat [[voluntas]]? non aliā bibam Mercede, Hor. C. 1, 27, 13: augendum addendumque [[quod]] cessat, Quint. 2, 8, 10.—Hence,<br /> <b>2</b> Judic. t. t.<br /> <b>a</b> Of persons, not to [[appear]] [[before]] a [[tribunal]], to [[make]] [[default]]: culpāne [[quis]] an aliquā [[necessitate]] cessasset, Suet. Claud. 15 ([[where]], [[just]] [[before]], absentibus; cf. [[absum]], 8.): quoties [[delator]] adesse jussus cessat, Dig. 49, 14, 2, § 4; so ib. 47, 10, 17, § 20.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of things (a [[process]], [[verdict]]), to be [[invalid]], null, [[void]]: cessat injuriarum [[actio]], Dig. 47, 10, 17, § 1: [[revocatio]], ib. 42, 8, 10, § 1: [[edictum]], ib. 39, 1, 1: [[senatus]] [[consultum]], ib. 14, 6, 12 et saep.—<br /> <b>C</b> Also [[rare]], in a [[moral]] [[view]], to [[depart]] from a [[right]] [[way]], i.e. to [[mistake]], [[err]]: ut [[scriptor]] si peccat... Sic qui [[multum]] cessat, Hor. A. P. 357: oratoris perfecti illius, ex nullā parte cessantis, Quint. 1, 10, 4. | |lshtext=<b>cesso</b>: āvi, ātum, 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. freq. n. and a. [1. [[cedo]]; lit., to [[stand]] [[back]] [[very]] [[much]]; [[hence]], to be [[remiss]] in [[any]] [[thing]], to [[delay]], [[loiter]], or, in gen., to [[cease]] from, [[stop]], [[give]] [[over]] (indicating a [[blamable]] [[remissness]]; [[while]] desinere, intermittere, requiescere do not [[include]] [[that]] [[idea]]: cessat [[desidiosus]], requiescit [[fessus]], [[Don]]. ad Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 15. Diff. from cunctari in this, [[that]] the [[latter]] designates [[inaction]] arising from [[want]] of [[resolution]], [[but]] cessare [[that]] [[which]] is the [[result]] of [[slothfulness]]; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 300 sq.; [[class]]. in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]): [[paulum]] si cessassem, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 5; 4, 6, 16; id. Ad. 4, 2, 49: si tabellarii non cessarint, Cic. Prov. Cons. 7, 15: in suo [[studio]] [[atque]] opere, id. Sen. 5, 13: ne [[quis]] in eo, [[quod]] me viderit facientem, cesset, Liv. 35, 35, 16; cf. id. 35, 18, 8: ab apparatu operum ac munitionum [[nihil]] cessatum, id. 21, 8, 1; 34, 16, 3; 31, 12, 2; Tac. A. 3, 28: [[quidquid]] [[apud]] durae cessatum est [[moenia]] Trojae, [[whatever]] [[delay]] [[there]] [[was]], Verg. A. 11, 288: audaciā, to be [[deficient]] in [[spirit]], Liv. 1, 46, 6; cf.: nullo [[umquam]] [[officio]], id. 42, 6, 8: ad [[arma]] cessantes Concitet, Hor. C. 1, 35, 15 et saep.—So in admonitions: [[quid]] cessas? Ter. And. 5, 6, 15; Tib. 2, 2, 10: [[quid]] cessatis? Curt. 4, 16, 5: quor cessas? Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 69; cf.: cessas in vota precesque ([[poet]]. for cessas facere vota), [[Tros]], ait, [[Aenea]]? cessas? Verg. A. 6, 51 sq.; Tib. 3, 6, 57.— With dat. incommodi: it [[dies]]; ego mihi [[cesso]], i. e. to my [[own]] [[injury]], Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 12 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Ep. 3, 2, 8: sed ego [[nunc]] mihi [[cesso]], qui non umerum hunc [[onero]] pallio, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 4.—<br /> <b>b</b> With inf.: ego [[hinc]] migrare [[cesso]], Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 6 sq.: [[numquid]] [[principio]] cessavit [[verbum]] [[docte]] dicere? id. Pers. 4, 4, 3; so, alloqui, Ter. And. 2, 2, 6; 5, 2, 4: adoriri, id. Heaut. 4, 5, 9: pultare [[ostium]], id. ib. 3, 1, 1; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 30: introrumpere, id. Eun. 5, 5, 26: detrahere de nobis, Cic. Att. 11, 11, 2: mori, Hor. C. 3, 27, 58 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen.<br /> <b>A</b> To be [[inactive]], [[idle]], at [[leisure]], to do [[nothing]]: [[cur]] tam multos deos [[nihil]] agere et cessare patitur? [[cur]] non rebus humanis aliquos otiosos deos praeficit? Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 93; cf. id. ib. 1, 9, 22; id. Off. 3, 1, 1: [[nisi]] [[forte]] ego [[vobis]] cessare [[nunc]] videor; cum bella non [[gero]], id. de Sen. 6, 18: et si [[quid]] cessare potes, requiesce sub umbrā, Verg. E. 7, 10: cessabimus una, Prop. 3 (4), 23, 15; Ov. M. 4, 37: [[cur]] [[alter]] fratrum cessare et ludere et ungi praeferat, etc., Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 183 (cessare otiari et jucunde vivere, Schol. Crucq.); so id. ib. 1, 7, 57: per hibernorum [[tempus]], Liv. 36, 5, 1: cessatum [[usque]] [[adhuc]] est: [[nunc]] [[porro]] expergiscere, Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 23: cessatum ducere curam, [[put]] to [[rest]], Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 31: non timido, non ignavo cessare tum licuit, Curt. 3, 11, 5.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of things, to be at [[rest]], to [[rest]], be [[still]], [[inactive]], [[unemployed]], or [[unused]], etc.: si cessare putas rerum [[primordia]] posse, Cessandoque novos rerum progignere [[motus]], Lucr. 2, 80 sq.: [[quid]] ita cessarunt [[pedes]]? Phaedr. 1, 9, 5: et [[grave]] suspenso vomere cesset [[opus]], Tib. 2, 1, 6; Ov. F. 6, 348: [[Achilles]] cessare in Teucros pertulit [[arma]] sua, Prop. 2, 8, 30: [[cur]] Berecyntiae Cessant [[flamina]] tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 19, 19: cessat [[voluntas]]? id. ib. 1, 27, 13: cessat ira deae, Liv. 29, 18, 10: solas [[sine]] ture relictas Praeteritae cessasse ferunt Letoïdos aras, i. e. remained unsought, unapproached, Ov. M. 8, 278; cf.: at [[nunc]] desertis cessant sacraria lucis, Prop. 3 (4), 13, 47; and: cessaturae casae, Ov. F. 4, 804: cessans [[honor]], a [[vacant]] [[office]], Suet. Caes. 76.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> Of [[land]], to [[lie]] [[uncultivated]], [[fallow]] (cf. [[cessatio]]): alternis [[idem]] tonsas cessare novales, Verg. G. 1, 71; Plin. 18, 23, 52, § 191; cf. Suet. Aug. 42.—Pass.: cessata arva, Ov. F. 4, 617.—Trop., of a [[barren]] [[woman]], Paul. Nol. Carm. 6, 48.—<br /> <b>c</b> Sometimes cessare alicui rei, [[like]] vacare alicui rei, to [[have]] [[leisure]] for [[something]], i.e. to [[attend]] to, [[apply]] one's [[self]] to: amori, Prop. 1, 6, 21.—<br /> <b>B</b> Rarely (prob. not [[ante]]-Aug.), not to be at [[hand]] or [[present]], to be [[wanting]]: cessat [[voluntas]]? non aliā bibam Mercede, Hor. C. 1, 27, 13: augendum addendumque [[quod]] cessat, Quint. 2, 8, 10.—Hence,<br /> <b>2</b> Judic. t. t.<br /> <b>a</b> Of persons, not to [[appear]] [[before]] a [[tribunal]], to [[make]] [[default]]: culpāne [[quis]] an aliquā [[necessitate]] cessasset, Suet. Claud. 15 ([[where]], [[just]] [[before]], absentibus; cf. [[absum]], 8.): quoties [[delator]] adesse jussus cessat, Dig. 49, 14, 2, § 4; so ib. 47, 10, 17, § 20.—<br /> <b>b</b> Of things (a [[process]], [[verdict]]), to be [[invalid]], null, [[void]]: cessat injuriarum [[actio]], Dig. 47, 10, 17, § 1: [[revocatio]], ib. 42, 8, 10, § 1: [[edictum]], ib. 39, 1, 1: [[senatus]] [[consultum]], ib. 14, 6, 12 et saep.—<br /> <b>C</b> Also [[rare]], in a [[moral]] [[view]], to [[depart]] from a [[right]] [[way]], i.e. to [[mistake]], [[err]]: ut [[scriptor]] si peccat... Sic qui [[multum]] cessat, Hor. A. P. 357: oratoris perfecti illius, ex nullā parte cessantis, Quint. 1, 10, 4. | ||
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|gf=<b>cessō</b>,⁸ āvī, ātum, āre (fréquent. de [[cedo]]), intr.,<br /><b>1</b> tarder, se montrer lent, lambiner, ne pas avancer, ne pas agir : [[quid]] cessas ? Pl. Epid. 684, que tardes-tu ? si tabellarii [[non]] cessarint Cic. Prov. 15, si les courriers ne traînent pas en route (s’ils font diligence) ; [[quod]] si cessas [[aut]] [[strenuus]] anteis, [[nec]] tardum [[opperior]] [[nec]] præcedentibus [[insto]] Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 70, que tu tardes ou au contraire que tu partes alerte de l’avant, je n’attends pas [[plus]] le lambin que je ne cours aux trousses de ceux qui me précèdent || [avec inf.] tarder à faire qqch. : [[cesso]] [[huc]] [[intro]] rumpere ? Ter. Eun. 996, je [[tarde]] à entrer ? = il [[est]] temps que j’entre ( Pl. Epid. 342, etc. ) : [[quid]] mori cessas ? Hor. O. 3, 27, 58, que tardes-tu à mourir ? || [droit] ne pas comparaître au jour dit en justice, faire défaut : [[nullo]] delectu culpane [[quis]] an [[aliqua]] necessitate cessasset Suet. Claud. 15, sans distinguer si la personne avait fait défaut par sa faute ou par nécessité, cf. Ulp. Dig. 47, 10, 17, 20 || [fig.] tarder à venir, ne pas être présent : [[non]] deterendum id [[bonum]], si [[quod]] ingenitum [[est]], [[existimo]], [[sed]] augendum addendumque [[quod]] cessat Quint. 2, 8, 10, s’il ne faut pas détruire, à mon [[avis]], les bonnes qualités naturelles du futur orateur, par contre, il faut développer et stimuler celles qui sont lentes à venir || ne pas arriver, manquer : [[quod]] cessat ex reditu, frugalitate suppletur Plin. Min. Ep. 2, 4, 3, ce qui manque à mes revenus, ma frugalité le supplée<br /><b>2</b> suspendre son activité, s’interrompre, se reposer : et properare [[loco]] et cessare Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 57, travailler activement et se reposer à [[propos]] ; strenuum hominem et [[numquam]] cessantem ! Curt. 7, 2, 26, quel homme actif et jamais au repos ! [[cur]] in lustris [[tam]] eximia [[virtus]] [[tam]] [[diu]] cessavit ? Cic. Sen. 13, pourquoi ce mérite si éclatant s’[[est]]-il reposé si longtemps dans les bouges ? epistulæ tuæ cessant Plin. Min. Ep. 3, 17, 1, ta correspondance se ralentit || [avec in abl.] : [[neque]] [[umquam]] in [[suo]] studio [[atque]] opere cessavit Cic. CM 13, jamais il ne s’interrompit dans ses études et son travail ; in [[officio]] cessare Liv. 45, 23, 10, se relâcher dans l’accomplissement de ses devoirs ; in [[quo]] [[quisque]] cessasset, prodi ab se salutem omnium rebatur Liv. 30, 9, 9, chacun croyait que se ralentir dans sa tâche (s’attarder, perdre son temps), c’était trahir la cause [[commune]] || [avec abl.] : muliebri [[audacia]] cessare Liv. 1, 46, 6, ne pas avoir en soi l’audace ordinaire aux femmes ; se [[nullo]] [[usquam]] cessaturum [[officio]] Liv. 42, 6, 8, il ne se déroberait en aucune circonstance devant un service à rendre ; [[prima]] [[dies]] cessavit Marte [[cruento]] Luc. 4, 24, le premier jour se passa sans l’ensanglantement du combat || [avec ab ] s’arrêter de : ab apparatu operum [[nihil]] cessatum Liv. 21, 8, 1, on ne discontinua en [[rien]] les travaux (4, 27, 5 ; 10, 39, 6 ; 21, 11, 5, etc. ) ; [[nec]] ullum erat [[tempus]], [[quod]] a novæ [[semper]] [[cladis]] alicujus spectaculo cessaret Liv. 5, 42, 6, il n’y avait pas un instant qui cessât d’offrir le spectacle de quelque désastre toujours nouveau || [avec in acc.] : cessas in vota precesque ? Virg. En. 6, 51, tu tardes à offrir tes vœux et tes prières ? || [avec inf.] : Cyrum urgere [[non]] [[cesso]] Cic. Q. 2, 2, 1, je ne cesse pas de presser [[Cyrus]] (Att. 11, 11, 2 ; Pis. 59 ; Q. 3, 5, 1 ) || [fig.] se relâcher, se négliger : qui [[multum]] cessat Hor. P. 357, l’écrivain qui a beaucoup de négligences ; ([[imago]] oratoris perfecti) et nulla parte cessantis Quint. 1, 10, 4 (l’image de l’orateur parfait) et qui ne bronche sur aucun point<br /><b>3</b> être oisif, ne [[rien]] faire : [[nisi]] [[forte]] cessare [[nunc]] [[videor]], cum bella [[non]] [[gero]] Cic. CM 18, à moins que je ne paraisse être oisif maintenant que je ne fais pas la guerre ; pueri, [[etiam]] cum cessant, exercitatione [[aliqua]] ludicra delectantur Cic. Nat. 1, 102, les enfants, même dans l’oisiveté, s’exercent (s’occupent) volontiers à quelque jeu ; in militibus vestris [[non]] cessat [[ira]] deæ Liv. 29, 18, 10, sur [[vos]] soldats la colère de la déesse n’[[est]] pas inactive (elle se [[manifeste]]) || [poét.] consacrer ses loisirs à qqch., s’adonner à, cessare alicui [[rei]] = vacare alicui [[rei]] : Prop. 1, 6, 21 || être au repos : [[cur]] [[hic]] cessat [[cantharus]] ? Pl. St. 705, pourquoi [[cette]] coupe [[est]]-elle au repos ? [[cur]] Berecynthiæ cessant [[flamina]] tibiæ ? Hor. O. 3, 19, 19, pourquoi cesser de souffler dans la flûte Phrygienne ? cessat [[terra]] Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 70, la terre [[est]] au repos, reste en jachère ( Virg. G. 1, 71 ; Plin. 18, 191 ; Col. Rust. 2, 2, 7 )<br /><b>4</b> [poét., emploi [[trans]]. au passif] : cessatis in arvis Ov. F. 4, 617, dans les champs laissés au repos (M. 10, 669 ; Val. Max. 5, 10, 3 ). | |||
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I v. freq. n. and a. [1. cedo; lit., to stand back very much; hence, to be remiss in any thing, to delay, loiter, or, in gen., to cease from, stop, give over (indicating a blamable remissness; while desinere, intermittere, requiescere do not include that idea: cessat desidiosus, requiescit fessus, Don. ad Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 15. Diff. from cunctari in this, that the latter designates inaction arising from want of resolution, but cessare that which is the result of slothfulness; cf. Doed. Syn. 3, p. 300 sq.; class. in prose and poetry): paulum si cessassem, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 5; 4, 6, 16; id. Ad. 4, 2, 49: si tabellarii non cessarint, Cic. Prov. Cons. 7, 15: in suo studio atque opere, id. Sen. 5, 13: ne quis in eo, quod me viderit facientem, cesset, Liv. 35, 35, 16; cf. id. 35, 18, 8: ab apparatu operum ac munitionum nihil cessatum, id. 21, 8, 1; 34, 16, 3; 31, 12, 2; Tac. A. 3, 28: quidquid apud durae cessatum est moenia Trojae, whatever delay there was, Verg. A. 11, 288: audaciā, to be deficient in spirit, Liv. 1, 46, 6; cf.: nullo umquam officio, id. 42, 6, 8: ad arma cessantes Concitet, Hor. C. 1, 35, 15 et saep.—So in admonitions: quid cessas? Ter. And. 5, 6, 15; Tib. 2, 2, 10: quid cessatis? Curt. 4, 16, 5: quor cessas? Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 69; cf.: cessas in vota precesque (poet. for cessas facere vota), Tros, ait, Aenea? cessas? Verg. A. 6, 51 sq.; Tib. 3, 6, 57.— With dat. incommodi: it dies; ego mihi cesso, i. e. to my own injury, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 12 Lorenz ad loc.; id. Ep. 3, 2, 8: sed ego nunc mihi cesso, qui non umerum hunc onero pallio, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 4.—
b With inf.: ego hinc migrare cesso, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 6 sq.: numquid principio cessavit verbum docte dicere? id. Pers. 4, 4, 3; so, alloqui, Ter. And. 2, 2, 6; 5, 2, 4: adoriri, id. Heaut. 4, 5, 9: pultare ostium, id. ib. 3, 1, 1; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 30: introrumpere, id. Eun. 5, 5, 26: detrahere de nobis, Cic. Att. 11, 11, 2: mori, Hor. C. 3, 27, 58 et saep.—
II In gen.
A To be inactive, idle, at leisure, to do nothing: cur tam multos deos nihil agere et cessare patitur? cur non rebus humanis aliquos otiosos deos praeficit? Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 93; cf. id. ib. 1, 9, 22; id. Off. 3, 1, 1: nisi forte ego vobis cessare nunc videor; cum bella non gero, id. de Sen. 6, 18: et si quid cessare potes, requiesce sub umbrā, Verg. E. 7, 10: cessabimus una, Prop. 3 (4), 23, 15; Ov. M. 4, 37: cur alter fratrum cessare et ludere et ungi praeferat, etc., Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 183 (cessare otiari et jucunde vivere, Schol. Crucq.); so id. ib. 1, 7, 57: per hibernorum tempus, Liv. 36, 5, 1: cessatum usque adhuc est: nunc porro expergiscere, Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 23: cessatum ducere curam, put to rest, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 31: non timido, non ignavo cessare tum licuit, Curt. 3, 11, 5.—
b Of things, to be at rest, to rest, be still, inactive, unemployed, or unused, etc.: si cessare putas rerum primordia posse, Cessandoque novos rerum progignere motus, Lucr. 2, 80 sq.: quid ita cessarunt pedes? Phaedr. 1, 9, 5: et grave suspenso vomere cesset opus, Tib. 2, 1, 6; Ov. F. 6, 348: Achilles cessare in Teucros pertulit arma sua, Prop. 2, 8, 30: cur Berecyntiae Cessant flamina tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 19, 19: cessat voluntas? id. ib. 1, 27, 13: cessat ira deae, Liv. 29, 18, 10: solas sine ture relictas Praeteritae cessasse ferunt Letoïdos aras, i. e. remained unsought, unapproached, Ov. M. 8, 278; cf.: at nunc desertis cessant sacraria lucis, Prop. 3 (4), 13, 47; and: cessaturae casae, Ov. F. 4, 804: cessans honor, a vacant office, Suet. Caes. 76.—
(b) Of land, to lie uncultivated, fallow (cf. cessatio): alternis idem tonsas cessare novales, Verg. G. 1, 71; Plin. 18, 23, 52, § 191; cf. Suet. Aug. 42.—Pass.: cessata arva, Ov. F. 4, 617.—Trop., of a barren woman, Paul. Nol. Carm. 6, 48.—
c Sometimes cessare alicui rei, like vacare alicui rei, to have leisure for something, i.e. to attend to, apply one's self to: amori, Prop. 1, 6, 21.—
B Rarely (prob. not ante-Aug.), not to be at hand or present, to be wanting: cessat voluntas? non aliā bibam Mercede, Hor. C. 1, 27, 13: augendum addendumque quod cessat, Quint. 2, 8, 10.—Hence,
2 Judic. t. t.
a Of persons, not to appear before a tribunal, to make default: culpāne quis an aliquā necessitate cessasset, Suet. Claud. 15 (where, just before, absentibus; cf. absum, 8.): quoties delator adesse jussus cessat, Dig. 49, 14, 2, § 4; so ib. 47, 10, 17, § 20.—
b Of things (a process, verdict), to be invalid, null, void: cessat injuriarum actio, Dig. 47, 10, 17, § 1: revocatio, ib. 42, 8, 10, § 1: edictum, ib. 39, 1, 1: senatus consultum, ib. 14, 6, 12 et saep.—
C Also rare, in a moral view, to depart from a right way, i.e. to mistake, err: ut scriptor si peccat... Sic qui multum cessat, Hor. A. P. 357: oratoris perfecti illius, ex nullā parte cessantis, Quint. 1, 10, 4.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cessō,⁸ āvī, ātum, āre (fréquent. de cedo), intr.,
1 tarder, se montrer lent, lambiner, ne pas avancer, ne pas agir : quid cessas ? Pl. Epid. 684, que tardes-tu ? si tabellarii non cessarint Cic. Prov. 15, si les courriers ne traînent pas en route (s’ils font diligence) ; quod si cessas aut strenuus anteis, nec tardum opperior nec præcedentibus insto Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 70, que tu tardes ou au contraire que tu partes alerte de l’avant, je n’attends pas plus le lambin que je ne cours aux trousses de ceux qui me précèdent
