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|lshtext=<b>rĕ-cēdo</b>: cessi, cessum, 3, v. n.,<br /><b>I</b> to go [[back]], [[fall]] [[back]], [[give]] [[ground]], [[retire]], [[withdraw]], [[recede]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. ([[class]].; cf.: [[decedo]], [[abscedo]]): [[pone]] nos [[recede]], Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34: ego abs te [[procul]] recedam, id. Mil. 2, 4, 4: [[hinc]], id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7: [[illuc]], id. Rud. 3, 5, 7: recedere [[loco]], id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.: centuriones ex eo quo stabant [[loco]] recesserunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: non [[modo]] illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā [[quidem]] recessisse, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: [[procul]] a telo veniente, Ov. M. 12, 359: de [[medio]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: ab hoste, Ov. P. 3, 1, 151: longius, Verg. G. 4, 191: [[tristis]] [[recedo]], Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31: ab Illiturgi, Liv. 24, 41: in [[castra]] Corneliana, Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., to [[retire]] to one's bedchamber, go to [[rest]], Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] things: ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis [[autem]] recedant, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: verba movere [[loco]], [[quamvis]] invita recedant, [[yield]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113: [[multa]] ferunt anni venientes commoda [[secum]], Multa recedentes adimunt, the departing years, id. A. P. 176: abeant ac recedant voces illae, Plin. [[Pan]]. 2, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of places, things, etc., to [[stand]] [[back]], [[recede]] (i. e. to be [[distant]] or [[retired]]; freq., esp. [[after]] the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae [[domus]] arboribusque obtecta recessit, Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and: [[etsi]] lata recessit Urbe [[domus]], Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: [[Palaestina]] vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas ... et quā recedit [[intus]], Damascena, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66: Magna [[Graecia]] in [[tres]] [[sinus]] recedens Ausonii maris, id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations: [[gens]] Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens, Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a [[painting]], etc.: [[pictor]] vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.: [[venter]] recessit, Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—Poet., of places, [[which]] [[appear]] to [[recede]] by [[our]] [[departure]] from [[them]]: provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, Verg. A. 3, 72: mea [[terra]] recedit, Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen., to go [[away]], [[withdraw]], [[retire]], [[depart]] from a [[place]], to [[abandon]] a [[thing]], = discedere.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. (in [[good]] [[prose]] [[very]] [[rare]]), = discedere, haec effatu' [[pater]], germana, [[repente]] recessit, [[vanished]], Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.): nec [[vero]] a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes), Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., of things, to [[separate]] from [[any]] [[thing]] ([[with]] [[which]] it [[was]] [[previously]] [[connected]]): in aliis ossibus ex toto [[saepe]] [[fragmentum]] a fragmento recedit, Cels. 8, 7, 1: carnes ab ossibus, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67: [[caput]] e cervice, Ov. P. 2, 8, 65; for [[which]] also: [[caput]] cervice, id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., to [[withdraw]], [[depart]], [[desist]] ([[class]].; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si [[quid]] vos per laborem recte feceritis, [[labor]] [[ille]] a [[vobis]] [[cito]] recedet, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4: [[avius]] a verā [[longe]] ratione recedit, Lucr. 2, 229: senes, ut in [[otia]] tuta recedant, aiunt, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 31: ab [[officio]] recedere, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58: ab armis, i. e. to [[lay]] [[them]] [[down]], id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: [[penitus]] a naturā, id. Fin. 4, 16, 43: ab [[eodem]] [[exemplo]], Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21: a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to [[kill]] one's [[self]], id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 ([[but]] Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to [[die]], in gen., a [[doubtful]] [[conjecture]]; Jahn, procedente vitā): a veritatis viā [[longe]], Lact. 2, 8, 1: ab oppugnatione, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] subjects: [[postquam]] recessit [[vita]] patrio corpore, Plaut. Merc. prol. 73: ([[nomen]] [[hostis]]) a peregrino recessit et [[proprie]] in eo, qui [[arma]] [[contra]] ferret, remansit, has [[lost]] the [[signification]] of [[foreigner]], Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so, res a consuetudine, id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11: figurae sententiarum ab [[illo]] simplici [[modo]] indicandi recedunt, id. 9, 2, 1: ab usu cotidiano, id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.—Poet., [[with]] [[simple]] abl.: sic [[nunquam]] corde recedit Nata tuo, departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.—Absol., to [[vanish]], [[pass]] [[away]], [[disappear]]: et [[pariter]] Phoebes, [[pariter]] maris ira recessit, Ov. M. 12, 36: [[spes]], Luc. 7, 688: [[quonam]] nostri [[tibi]] [[cura]] recessit? Verg. A. 2, 595: [[fortuna]] recessit, id. ib. 3, 53.— With in: in ventos [[vita]] recessit, passed [[away]] [[into]] the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), [[drawn]] [[back]], [[receding]]: [[scaena]] recessior, [[standing]] [[farther]] [[back]], Vitr. 5, 8.
|lshtext=<b>rĕ-cēdo</b>: cessi, cessum, 3, v. n.,<br /><b>I</b> to go [[back]], [[fall]] [[back]], [[give]] [[ground]], [[retire]], [[withdraw]], [[recede]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. ([[class]].; cf.: [[decedo]], [[abscedo]]): [[pone]] nos [[recede]], Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34: ego abs te [[procul]] recedam, id. Mil. 2, 4, 4: [[hinc]], id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7: [[illuc]], id. Rud. 3, 5, 7: recedere [[loco]], id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.: centuriones ex eo quo stabant [[loco]] recesserunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: non [[modo]] illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā [[quidem]] recessisse, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: [[procul]] a telo veniente, Ov. M. 12, 359: de [[medio]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: ab hoste, Ov. P. 3, 1, 151: longius, Verg. G. 4, 191: [[tristis]] [[recedo]], Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31: ab Illiturgi, Liv. 24, 41: in [[castra]] Corneliana, Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., to [[retire]] to one's bedchamber, go to [[rest]], Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] things: ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis [[autem]] recedant, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: verba movere [[loco]], [[quamvis]] invita recedant, [[yield]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113: [[multa]] ferunt anni venientes commoda [[secum]], Multa recedentes adimunt, the departing years, id. A. P. 176: abeant ac recedant voces illae, Plin. [[Pan]]. 2, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of places, things, etc., to [[stand]] [[back]], [[recede]] (i. e. to be [[distant]] or [[retired]]; freq., esp. [[after]] the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae [[domus]] arboribusque obtecta recessit, Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and: [[etsi]] lata recessit Urbe [[domus]], Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: [[Palaestina]] vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas ... et quā recedit [[intus]], Damascena, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66: Magna [[Graecia]] in [[tres]] [[sinus]] recedens Ausonii maris, id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations: [[gens]] Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens, Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a [[painting]], etc.: [[pictor]] vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.: [[venter]] recessit, Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—Poet., of places, [[which]] [[appear]] to [[recede]] by [[our]] [[departure]] from [[them]]: provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, Verg. A. 3, 72: mea [[terra]] recedit, Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen., to go [[away]], [[withdraw]], [[retire]], [[depart]] from a [[place]], to [[abandon]] a [[thing]], = discedere.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. (in [[good]] [[prose]] [[very]] [[rare]]), = discedere, haec effatu' [[pater]], germana, [[repente]] recessit, [[vanished]], Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.): nec [[vero]] a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes), Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., of things, to [[separate]] from [[any]] [[thing]] ([[with]] [[which]] it [[was]] [[previously]] [[connected]]): in aliis ossibus ex toto [[saepe]] [[fragmentum]] a fragmento recedit, Cels. 8, 7, 1: carnes ab ossibus, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67: [[caput]] e cervice, Ov. P. 2, 8, 65; for [[which]] also: [[caput]] cervice, id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., to [[withdraw]], [[depart]], [[desist]] ([[class]].; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si [[quid]] vos per laborem recte feceritis, [[labor]] [[ille]] a [[vobis]] [[cito]] recedet, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4: [[avius]] a verā [[longe]] ratione recedit, Lucr. 2, 229: senes, ut in [[otia]] tuta recedant, aiunt, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 31: ab [[officio]] recedere, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58: ab armis, i. e. to [[lay]] [[them]] [[down]], id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: [[penitus]] a naturā, id. Fin. 4, 16, 43: ab [[eodem]] [[exemplo]], Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21: a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to [[kill]] one's [[self]], id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 ([[but]] Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to [[die]], in gen., a [[doubtful]] [[conjecture]]; Jahn, procedente vitā): a veritatis viā [[longe]], Lact. 2, 8, 1: ab oppugnatione, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] subjects: [[postquam]] recessit [[vita]] patrio corpore, Plaut. Merc. prol. 73: ([[nomen]] [[hostis]]) a peregrino recessit et [[proprie]] in eo, qui [[arma]] [[contra]] ferret, remansit, has [[lost]] the [[signification]] of [[foreigner]], Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so, res a consuetudine, id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11: figurae sententiarum ab [[illo]] simplici [[modo]] indicandi recedunt, id. 9, 2, 1: ab usu cotidiano, id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.—Poet., [[with]] [[simple]] abl.: sic [[nunquam]] corde recedit Nata tuo, departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.—Absol., to [[vanish]], [[pass]] [[away]], [[disappear]]: et [[pariter]] Phoebes, [[pariter]] maris ira recessit, Ov. M. 12, 36: [[spes]], Luc. 7, 688: [[quonam]] nostri [[tibi]] [[cura]] recessit? Verg. A. 2, 595: [[fortuna]] recessit, id. ib. 3, 53.— With in: in ventos [[vita]] recessit, passed [[away]] [[into]] the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), [[drawn]] [[back]], [[receding]]: [[scaena]] recessior, [[standing]] [[farther]] [[back]], Vitr. 5, 8.
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|gf=<b>rĕcēdō</b>,⁸ cessī, cessum, ĕre, intr.,<br /><b>1</b> s’éloigner par une marche en arrière, rétrograder, se retirer : ex [[loco]] Cæs. G. 5, 43, 6 ; e [[Gallia]], a [[Mutina]] Cic. Phil. 8, 21 ; de [[medio]] Cic. Amer. 112, se retirer d’un lieu, de la Gaule, des environs de Modène, du public || [en part., pour se coucher] : Petr. 85, 5 ; Ov. Ib. 239<br /><b>2</b> [métaph.] <b> a)</b> undæ comitiorum ab aliis recedunt Cic. Planc. 15, les flots des comices [= le courant populaire, la faveur populaire] s’éloignent des autres ; anni recedentes Hor. P. 176, les années en s’éloignant ; <b> b)</b> Anchisæ [[domus]] recessit Virg. En. 2, 300, la maison d’Anchise [[est]] retirée (loin du centre) : [[zotheca]] recedit Plin. Min. Ep. 2, 17, 21, un cabinet occupe un enfoncement ; [[pleraque]] a mari recedentia Curt. 4, 1, 6, la [[plus]] [[grande]] partie de ce qui (de la région qui) s’écarte de la mer ; <b> c)</b> [[pictor]] efficit, ut quædam eminere in opere, quædam recessisse credamus Quint. 2, 17, 21, le peintre nous donne l’illusion que telles parties sont en relief dans son œuvre, telles en retrait (en arrière-plan)<br /><b>3</b> s’éloigner, s’en aller : [[apes]] a stabulis [[non]] recedunt longius Virg. G. 4, 191, les abeilles ne s’éloignent pas trop de la ruche ; ([[nomen]] [[hostis]]) a [[peregrino]] recessit Cic. Off. 1, 37, le mot [[hostis]] s’[[est]] éloigné de son sens d’« étranger », a perdu son sens d’étranger || [[res]] ab eo recessit et ad heredem pervenit Cic. Quinct. 38, les biens n’ont [[plus]] leur propriétaire et sont passés à un héritier || [[maris]] [[ira]] recessit Ov. M. 12, 36, la colère de la mer s’évanouit ; in ventos [[vita]] recessit Virg. En. 4, 705, la vie s’exhala dans les airs || [en part.] s’éloigner de la foule pour se retirer qq. part, faire retraite : Hor. S. 1, 1, 31<br /><b>4</b> se détacher de, se séparer de : carnes recedunt ab ossibus Plin. 22, 22, les chairs se détachent des os, cf. Ov. P. 2, 8, 65 ; F. 6, 708<br /><b>5</b> [fig.] ab [[officio]] recedere Cic. Off. 3, 19, s’écarter du devoir ; ab armis Cic. Amer. 16, déposer les armes ; a [[natura]] Cic. Fin. 4, 43, s’écarter de la nature ; a [[vita]] Cic. Tusc. 4, 40, se retirer de la vie [se faire mourir].
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

rĕ-cēdo: cessi, cessum, 3, v. n.,
I to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede.
   A Lit. (class.; cf.: decedo, abscedo): pone nos recede, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34: ego abs te procul recedam, id. Mil. 2, 4, 4: hinc, id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7: illuc, id. Rud. 3, 5, 7: recedere loco, id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.: centuriones ex eo quo stabant loco recesserunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: non modo illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā quidem recessisse, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: procul a telo veniente, Ov. M. 12, 359: de medio, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: ab hoste, Ov. P. 3, 1, 151: longius, Verg. G. 4, 191: tristis recedo, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31: ab Illiturgi, Liv. 24, 41: in castra Corneliana, Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —
   2    In partic., to retire to one's bedchamber, go to rest, Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—
   B Transf.
   1    Of inanimate and abstract things: ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant, yield, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113: multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimunt, the departing years, id. A. P. 176: abeant ac recedant voces illae, Plin. Pan. 2, 2.—
   2    Of places, things, etc., to stand back, recede (i. e. to be distant or retired; freq., esp. after the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae domus arboribusque obtecta recessit, Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and: etsi lata recessit Urbe domus, Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: Palaestina vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas ... et quā recedit intus, Damascena, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66: Magna Graecia in tres sinus recedens Ausonii maris, id. 3, 10, 15, § 95; 4, 10, 17, § 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations: gens Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens, Plin. 6, 8, 8, § 24.—In a painting, etc.: pictor vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.: venter recessit, Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—Poet., of places, which appear to recede by our departure from them: provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, Verg. A. 3, 72: mea terra recedit, Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—
II In gen., to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place, to abandon a thing, = discedere.
   A Lit. (in good prose very rare), = discedere, haec effatu' pater, germana, repente recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.): nec vero a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes), Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—
   2    Transf., of things, to separate from any thing (with which it was previously connected): in aliis ossibus ex toto saepe fragmentum a fragmento recedit, Cels. 8, 7, 1: carnes ab ossibus, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 22; 19, 5, 23, § 67: caput e cervice, Ov. P. 2, 8, 65; for which also: caput cervice, id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —
   B Trop., to withdraw, depart, desist (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si quid vos per laborem recte feceritis, labor ille a vobis cito recedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4: avius a verā longe ratione recedit, Lucr. 2, 229: senes, ut in otia tuta recedant, aiunt, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 31: ab officio recedere, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58: ab armis, i. e. to lay them down, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: penitus a naturā, id. Fin. 4, 16, 43: ab eodem exemplo, Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21: a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to kill one's self, id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 (but Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6, to die, in gen., a doubtful conjecture; Jahn, procedente vitā): a veritatis viā longe, Lact. 2, 8, 1: ab oppugnatione, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of inanimate and abstract subjects: postquam recessit vita patrio corpore, Plaut. Merc. prol. 73: (nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit et proprie in eo, qui arma contra ferret, remansit, has lost the signification of foreigner, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so, res a consuetudine, id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11: figurae sententiarum ab illo simplici modo indicandi recedunt, id. 9, 2, 1: ab usu cotidiano, id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.—Poet., with simple abl.: sic nunquam corde recedit Nata tuo, departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.—Absol., to vanish, pass away, disappear: et pariter Phoebes, pariter maris ira recessit, Ov. M. 12, 36: spes, Luc. 7, 688: quonam nostri tibi cura recessit? Verg. A. 2, 595: fortuna recessit, id. ib. 3, 53.— With in: in ventos vita recessit, passed away into the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, * rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), drawn back, receding: scaena recessior, standing farther back, Vitr. 5, 8.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

rĕcēdō,⁸ cessī, cessum, ĕre, intr.,
1 s’éloigner par une marche en arrière, rétrograder, se retirer : ex loco Cæs. G. 5, 43, 6 ; e Gallia, a Mutina Cic. Phil. 8, 21 ; de medio Cic. Amer. 112, se retirer d’un lieu, de la Gaule, des environs de Modène, du public