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|lshtext=<b>dē-stĭtŭo</b>: ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [[statuo]].<br /><b>I</b> To [[set]] [[down]]; to [[set]], [[place]] [[anywhere]] (ante-class. and freq. in Liv.; elsewh. [[rare]]): destituit omnes servos ad mensam [[ante]] se, Caecil. ap. Non. 280, 3: navem in [[alto]] ancoris, Naev. ib.: [[palum]] in [[foro]], C. [[Gracchus]] ap. Gell. 10, 3, 3: aliquem in convivio (sc. ludendi [[causa]]), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 26 fin.: armatos in [[medio]], Liv. 7, 10: aliquem [[ante]] [[tribunal]], id. 2, 12; cf. id. 23, 10: cohortes [[extra]] [[vallum]], id. 10, 4: duo signa hic, Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 43 et saep.—Far [[more]] freq. and [[class]].,<br /><b>II</b> (Lit., to [[put]] [[away]] from one's [[self]]; [[hence]]) To [[leave]] [[alone]], to [[forsake]], [[abandon]], [[desert]] ([[derelinquo]], [[desero]], q. v.): T. [[Roscius]] [[novem]] homines honestissimos induxit, decepit, destituit, adversariis tradidit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117: [[destitutus]] ab [[aliquo]], id. Clu. 30 fin.; id. Off. 1, 10, 32; cf. id. Quint. 16: funditores inermes, Caes. B. C. 3, 93, 5: aliquem in septemviratu, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 99; cf.: defensores in ipso discrimine periculi, Liv. 6, 17 et saep.: inceptam fugam, to [[desist]] from, Ov. Am. 3, 13, 20: morando spem, Liv. 1, 51: spem vindemiae, Col. 4, 24, 12: [[consilium]], Suet. Caes. 9: honorem, id. Claud. 45: conata ejus, Vell. 2, 42: partem verborum, to [[pronounce]] [[indistinctly]] ([[with]] devorare), Quint. 11, 3, 33 Spald. et saep.—Poet., [[with]] acc. and abl.: ex quo destituit deos Mercede pactā [[Laomedon]], i. e. defrauded of [[their]] stipulated [[reward]], * Hor. Od. 3, 3, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[inanimate]] and [[abstract]] subjects: [[neque]] reperias, quos aut pronior [[fortuna]] comitata [[sit]], aut, veluti fatigata, maturius destituerit, [[quam]], etc., Vell. 2, 69 fin.: cum [[primas]] [[spes]] [[fortuna]] destituit, Curt. 4, 1, 5, § 29; cf. Suet. Aug. 65: [[ventus]] aliquem, Liv. 30, 24: aliquem [[vadum]], id. 21, 28: aliquem poplites, Suet. Claud. 30; cf.: aliquem [[memoria]], [[mens]], Curt. 7, 1: alveum fluitantem [[aqua]], Liv. 1, 4; cf.: freta destituent nudos in litore pisces, * Verg. E. 1, 61.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Part. perf. [[destitutus]], constr. usu. ab [[aliquo]], aliquā re, [[rarely]] ab aliquā re, freq. [[with]] ab, [[abandoned]], [[forsaken]] by; robbed of, [[destitute]] of: in divite ac paupere: propinquis, amicis, clientibus abundante, et his omnibus destituto, Quint. 5, 10, 26: alicujus consiliis, promissis, praeceptis [[destitutus]], Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 8: scientiā juris, Quint. 12, 3, 10: lenociniis, id. 12, 1, 30 et saep.; [[but]] [[with]] spe, a is [[more]] freq.: destituti ab unica spe auxilii, Liv. 40, 47: a spe, id. 31, 24; 36, 33, 3; Curt. 4, 3 ([[with]] spe, Curt. 8, 6): a re familiari, Suet. Ner. 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: si is destituat, [[nihil]] [[satis]] tutum habebis, Liv. 37, 7: [[simul]], si destituat [[spes]], [[alia]] praesidia molitur, Liv. 1, 41; so, [[spes]], id. Tib. 1, 1, 9; Luc. 2, 728: pietasque fidesque, id. 5, 298: ego, Vulg. Isai. 49, 21.