digredior

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dī-grĕdĭor: gressus, 3,
I v. dep. n. gradior, to go apart or asunder, to separate, part; to go away, depart, = discedere (class.).
I Lit.: luna tum congrediens cum sole, tum digrediens, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103; cf.: digredimur paulum rursumque ad bella coimus, Ov. M. 9, 42: ita utrique digrediuntur, Sall. J. 22 fin.; cf.: digredimur flentes, Ov. H. 18, 117: ubi digressi, Verg. A. 4, 80.—With term. a quo: numquam est a me digressus, Cic. Sull. 12: ab aliquo, id. Fam. 4, 12; 12, 18; id. Att. 3, 9; Caes. B. C. 1, 57, 4; Sall. J. 18, 11; Liv. 22, 7 al.; cf.: a marito, to abandon, Suet. Caes. 43: a colloquio Caninii, Caes. B. C. 1, 26, 4; Liv. 39, 35: a Corcyra, id. 42, 37: ex eo loco, Caes. B. C. 1, 72, 4; cf.: ex colloquio, Liv. 35, 38: domo, Sall. J. 79, 7: triclinio, Suet. Ner. 43; cf. id. Aug. 74: inde, id. Tib. 6 al. —Absol.: hos ego digrediens lacrimis affabar obortis, Verg. A. 3, 492; cf. id. 5, 650; Tac. A. 1, 27; id. H. 3, 69 al.: dein statim digrediens, stepping aside, Sall. J. 94, 2 Kritz. —With term. ad quem: ambo in sua castra digressi, Sall. J. 109, 3; Tac. A. 4, 74; 6, 1; cf.: in urbem ad capessendos magistratus, id. Agr. 6: ad sua tutanda, id. A. 4, 73; Front. Strat. 1, 4, 3: Seleuciam, Tac. A. 2, 69: domum, id. ib. 2, 30: digredientem eum cum Caesare circumsistunt, id. ib. 1, 27.
II Trop., to go aside, deviate, depart. —With term. a quo: nos nostro officio nihil digressos esse. * Ter. Ph. 4, 5, 10.—
   B Esp., in speaking or writing, to digress (but de-gredi, which is sometimes found in edd. in this sense is incorrect, v. h. v.): digredi ab eo, quod proposueris, Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 311: parumper a causa, id. Brut. 93 fin.: de causa, id. Inv. 1, 51 fin.: ex eo et regredi in id, Quint. 10, 6, 5.—Absol.: saepe datur ad commovendos animos digrediendi locus, Cic. de Or. 2, 77, 312; so ib. 2, 19, 80; Quint. 3, 11, 26; 4, 3, 17: verum huc longius, quam voluntas fuit, ab epistola Timarchidi digressa est oratio mea, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.: sed eo jam, unde huc digressi sumus, revertamur, id. N. D. 3, 23 fin.; cf. id. Brut. 87 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 15.