desistere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desisto, desistere, destiti, destitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stop/cease/desist (from); give up, leave/stand off; dissociate oneself;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ille manus et uellera prensat anxius inceptisque uelit desistere sacris. qualis Gaetulae stabulantem ad confraga siluae uenator longo..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...curru medium secat agmen. ut vidit socios: 'tempus desistere pugnae; solus ego in Pallanta feror, soli mihi Pallas..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...servans sub pectore volnus, haec secum: 'Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem? Quippe vetor..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...bene velle queat tibi, si optima fias, nec desistere amare, omnia si facias. LXXVI. ad deos Siqua recordanti..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nymphas animata classe marinas posse metu monstri Rutulum desistere bello: perstat, habetque deos pars utraque, quodque deorum..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nostra ferendae. sed non culpa mea est! utinam desistere velles, aut, quoniam es demens, utinam velocior esses..."Liber IV
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...atque ita perterritos egerunt ut non prius fuga desisterent quam in conspectum agminis nostri venissent. In eo proelio..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ensesoblitus simulare togam; cum Cotta Metellumconpulit audaci nimium desistere coepto.'libertas' inquit 'populi quem regna coercent 145libertate perit..."