demigro

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dē-mī̆gro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., to migrate from, to emigrate; to depart, remove from or to a place (class.).

I Lit.

A In gen.: de oppidis, Caes. B. G. 4, 19: ex his aedificiis, id. ib. 4, 4: ex agris, Liv. 38, 18 fin. ; cf.: ex agris in urbem, id. 2, 10: loco, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 85; cf. Helicone (deae), Stat. S. 1, 2, 4: in illa loca, Cic. Agr. 2, 16, 42: in hortos, Suet. Tib. 35: Pydnam, Liv. 44, 6: ad virum optimum, Cic. Cat. 1, 8 et saep.— Absol. : demigrandi causa, Caes. B. G. 5, 43, 4; so Liv. 38, 23.—Transf., to have recourse to : ad deos et ad sidera, Treb. Pol. Claud. 12.—

B Pregn., to depart this life (perh. only in Cic.): vetat dominans ille in nobis deus, injussu hinc nos suo demigrare, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 74; cf.: ex hominum vita ad deorum religionem, id. Rab. perd. 10, 30; and: ab improbis, id. Par. 2, 18.—

II Trop. (only in Cic.): multa mihi dant solatia, nec tamen ego de meo statu demigro, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10: strumae ab ore improbo demigrarunt, id. Vatin. 16 fin.

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