dimitto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dimitto, dimittere, dimisi, dimissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
send away/off; allow to go, let go/off; disband, discharge, dismiss (soldiers);; dissolve (assembly); part with; put away; divorce; pay off, settle (debt);; release, set free; allow to escape/slip away; shake off/scatter/shed;; discontinue, renounce, abandon/forsake, forgo, give up (activity); dispatch;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- P
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...nolis cupiunt ultro. THR. bene putas. GN. iam dimitto exercitum? THR. ubi vis. GN. Sanga, ita ut fortis..." Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...petis arva Padi, Ne vivam, nisi te, Domiti, dimitto libenter, Grata licet sine te sit mihi nulla dies..."- L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...polum. nunc decora regni teneo, nunc solium patris. dimitto superos; summa uotorum attigi. bene est, abunde..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Facio, inquit, indutias vobiscum, et a constituta lite dimitto. Quod si non adnuissetis de hac medicina quam peto..." - G
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...militum seditiosus malusque civis fuisti, te ab exercitu dimitto. Tite Saliene M. Tiro C. Clusinas, cum ordines..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nunc iure belli liberum te, intactum inviolatumque hinc dimitto." Tunc Mucius, quasi remunerans meritum, "quando quidem" inquit..."