absto
From LSJ
κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν τὴν μήτε πλουσίους ἄγαν μήτε πένητας ἔχουσαν πολίτας → the best democracy is that in which the citizens are neither very rich nor very poor (Thales/Plutarch)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ab-sto: āre, 1, v. n.,
I to stand off or at a distance from, to stand aloof: si longius abstes, Hor. A. P. 361.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
abstō,¹⁶ āre, intr., être éloigné, être placé à distance : Hor. P. 362 || abstandus Pl. Trin. 263, on doit le tenir à l’écart [v. Gaffiot, 1929b, p. 226].
