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|lshtext=<b>rĕcessus</b>: a, um, Part. and P. a., v. [[recedo]].<br /><b>rĕcessus</b>: ūs, m. [[recedo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[going]] [[back]], [[receding]], [[retiring]], [[retreat]], [[departure]]; opp. [[accessus]] ([[class]].; cf. [[receptus]]): [[accessus]] ad res salutares, a pestiferis [[recessus]], Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 34: ut [[luna]] accessu et recessu suo [[lumen]] accipiat, id. de Or. 3, 45, 178.— Of the [[ebb]] of the [[tide]]: [[quid]] de fretis aut de marinis aestibus plura dicam? quorum [[accessus]] et [[recessus]] lunae motu gubernantur, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; so Col. 8, 17, 9: recessum primis ultimi non dabant, i. e. [[means]] of [[retreat]], * Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1: gemmae, its [[removal]] from the [[eye]], Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 88: cum processui et recessui cani juberet, i. e. in [[going]] [[home]], Treb. Gall. 17, 3; Amm. 20, 11, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. (abstr. pro concreto), a [[distant]], [[retired]], or [[secret]] [[spot]], a [[nook]], [[corner]], [[retreat]], [[recess]] (acc. to [[recedo]], I. B. 2.; syn.: [[secessus]], secretum): mihi [[solitudo]] et [[recessus]] [[provincia]] est, Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2; cf.: nos terrarum ac libertatis extremos [[recessus]] [[ipse]] ac [[sinus]] famae in hunc diem defendit, [[our]] [[remote]] [[position]] itself and [[our]] [[distant]] [[renown]], Tac. Agr. 30: nec, [[sicut]] aestivas aves, [[statim]] [[auctumno]] tecta ac recessum circumspicere, Liv. 5, 6, 2: cum vox [[quasi]] in recessu oris auditur, Quint. 1, 5, 32: hic [[spelunca]] fuit, [[vasto]] submota recessu, in a [[deep]] [[recess]], Verg. A. 8, 193; cf. Ov. M. 3, 157; 10, 691; 11, 592: ubi marmoreo Superi sedere recessu, in the [[marble]] [[hall]], id. ib. 1, 177: oculi in recessu [[cavo]], Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121.—In plur., Verg. A. 11, 527; Liv. 38, 45 ([[along]] [[with]] anguli); Vell. 2, 32, 4; Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5; Quint. 11, 2, 18; Ov. M. 7, 670; 13, 902; id. F. 1, 555; Curt. 7, 2, 22.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: tum [[accessus]] a te ad causam facti, tum [[recessus]], advances and retreats, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 7: habeat [[illa]] in dicendo [[admiratio]] ac [[summa]] [[laus]] umbram [[aliquam]] et recessum, quo [[magis]] id, [[quod]] erit illuminatum, extare [[atque]] eminere videatur, [[somewhat]] of [[shade]] and [[background]], Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101; cf.: haec [[professio]] [[plus]] habet in recessu [[quam]] fronte promittit, Quint. 1, 4, 2.—In plur.: [[vita]] hominum altos [[recessus]] magnasque latebras habet, Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 6: in animis hominum tantae latebrae sunt et tanti [[recessus]], Cic. Marc. 7, 22: strenua ingenia, quo [[plus]] [[recessus]] sumunt, [[leisure]], Val. Max. 3, 6, 1.