dimitto

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

dī-mittō mīsī, missus, ere,

to send different ways, send out, send forth, send about, scatter, distribute: litteras circum municipia, Cs.: litteras per provincias, Cs.: certos per litora, V.: nuntios totā civitate Aeduorum, Cs.: legatos quoque versum, Cs.: dimissos equites pabulandi causā, Cs.: animum ignotas in artīs, directs, O.: aciem (i. e. oculos) partīs in omnīs, O.: per provincias, to send despatches, L.—To break up, dissolve, dismiss, discharge, disband: senatum: auxilia, S.: exercitum, Cs.: plurīs manūs, Cs.: nondum convivio dimisso, broken up, L. — To send away, let go, discharge, dismiss, release: hunc ab se: uxorem, divorce: Attium incolumem, Cs.: impunitum, S.: me incastigatum, H.: equos (to fight on foot), Ta.: beluam inclusam, let loose: hostem ex manibus, Cs.: eum e manibus (i. e. eius librum), lay down: nuntios ad Centrones, Cs.: Manlium Faesulas, S.: ab armis Ascanium.—To relinquish, leave, desert, give up, abandon, quit, let slip: locum, quem ceperant, Cs.: captam Troiam, O.: fortunas morte: patrimonium: speratam praedam ex manibus, Cs.: quantum dimissa petitis praestent, H.: his tributa, remit, Ta.—Fig., to renounce, give up, abandon, forego, forsake, let go, lose, leave: rem frustra tentatam, Cs.: occasionem rei bene gerendae, Cs.: tantam fortunam ex manibus, Cs.: nullum tempus, quin, etc.: condiciones pacis, Cs.: suum ius: in amicitiis dimittendis: quaestionem: fugam, means of flight, V.: coeptum iter, O.: iniuriam inultam: iracundiam rei p. dimittere, sacrifice, Cs.: oblito pectore cuncta, Ct.: dimissa in discrimen dignitas, exposed, L.

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